1970 Triumph GT6+ (Brutus)
Started on June 9 by Vince
Picked up a pretty solid GT6+ in Ohio (Sunday 6, June 2010) Destined to be my Vintage Racer. July 9th. about a year later I’m almost ready to go racing…See more:
Latest updates
Jan. 24
Cleaning up for the Show..
Having been invited to be one of 3 feature Triumph race cars in the Canadian …
Oct. 07
Pumpkin Festival Cinderella Car Show
Brutus’s first official car show was the Port Elgin Pumpkin Festivals “Cinderella’s Carriage Antique and …
Sept. 02
1st Trip to Mosport
All loaded up for a quick get-a-way after work to Mosport for the first time …
Sept. 02
CELL Enclosure
I designed and drafted up a pattern for a nice heavy gauge aluminum fuel cell …
Sept. 01
New Wheel Studs
I installed Camero/Corvette 12mm wheel studs for strenght/safety. New Roto Couplings, bearings and seals went …
Aug. 28
Awesome 1st Event
First Event for Brutus was a great success. 7 runs improving my time each run …
Aug. 28
Final Details...
I haven’t posted my build progress in a while but I’ve been hard at it…
Aug. 11
Driveable... Let the fun begin
Brakes, Clutch, New Rims & a few other details… Blew out all the brake and …
Aug. 09
New Master Cylinders In
The new Clutch and Brake Master Cylinders went in last night. I re-piped the clutch …
Aug. 03
Home Stretch....
The past couple of weeks has seen good progress and Brutus is getting real close …
July 21
2AM Smoke...
I couldn’t put it down until I had the wire loom for my new main …
July 19
Wiring Progress..
The garage was a good place to be in the heat of the day so …
July 11
Progress....
In the past week the detailing has come together with the race strip and numbers …
June 28
Main Stripe Finished
Fortunately they still sell the Transtar product so I was able to get the Catalyst …
June 26
Prepping for Race Stripe
A few hours of wet sanding and masking Saturday has the main body and drivers …
June 12
Brutus Lives!!
We fired it up for the first time tonight… Powered the coil and hit the …
June 07
Final Paint
The weather cooperated this weekend and although I was feeling under the weather with a …
June 07
Final prep for paint
I decided that prior to painting I’d better wrap up all the interior work. So …
June 07
Picked up my new trailer June 1
I designed my own small car hauler and had a local chap fabricate it over …
May 28
Primed and ready...
Friday morning (May 27), I solvent washed the car, touched up a few minor things …
May 28
Body work complete
Dad came over to play in the garage for the May 24 weekend. He stripped …
May 28
Suspension Diversion....
I thought I’d take a diversion from all the welding grinding, and sanding and stripped …
May 10
Installed Rear Quarter Patch
I managed to get a couple hours in on Brutus tonight and installed the new …
May 01
Installed the Rocker and Rear Quarter Dogleg
Once the inner beam was installed the rocker and rear quarter dogleg panels went on …
May 01
Inner Rocker Beam
I fabbed up a full length inner strengthening beam and stitched it in where there …
April 03
Cage is in, back to some body work...
Progress… Cage is finally done so Cliff and I picked up Brutus today. My buddy …
March 26
New Dash Board and Door Skins
The light gauge Aluminum I picked up worked great for the door skins and I …
March 25
Fabricating a new dash panel
Cut out some 3/8” plywood tonight and started laying out the aluminum skin I’ll laminate …
March 25
Passenger Door Detail
Home sick and bored crazy so I brought up the passenger door and enjoyed sitting …
March 24
Carb Refurbishing
I decided to tackle the carbs today. It took a few hours of tedium to …
March 19
Transmission Ready to go...
After cleaning up the surface rust and corrosion I flushed the gear box a couple …
March 19
Transmission Refurbishing
I spend a few hours cleaning the transmission which was showing it’s age, leaking like …
March 16
Engine Stripped Clean
It came up real good….
March 16
Engine Block Clean Up
It took about 3 hours tonight after work to strip the engine block of old …
March 15
Aluminum for Door and Dash Skins
I dropped into a local metal supplier and found some decent, used, light weight aluminum …
March 15
Small Parts Refurb
I was up 5:30 AM Monday finished painting the small parts I had anti rust …
March 13
My Parts room
Great to have an empty recroom at my disposal for all the refurbished and new …
March 13
More Engine Parts Refurb...
I had a great day yesterday in the garage. On top of getting the timing …
March 13
Intake Flow Work
One I had the intake manifold cleaned up I decided to do a little port …
March 13
Intake Manifold Clean Up
The intake manifold was extremely messed up with a lot of orange over spray, oxidation …
March 13
Oil Pan & Timing Cover Looking Good
Both pieces came up nice and clean and I finished them off with a solvent …
March 13
Oil Pan & Timing Cover Clean Up
I stripped the oil pan and timing cover to bare metal, they were both a …
March 13
Oil Pan Windage
My buddy and I sorted out the oil pan. He was good enough to strip …
March 09
Tire Crazy...
I found out they are phasing out the ultra streets I was planning to buy. …
Feb. 27
Running, Brake & Turn Restored...
It took about 6 hours of stripping, repairing and painting… The lights are almost better …
Feb. 27
Runnig, Brake & Turn Lamps
Here are the lamps prior to restore. The bulb holders were shot, some pieces broken …
Feb. 21
Rear bumpers finished
Bumpers came up real nice and should look good in gloss black, just like the …
Feb. 20
Small Parts Refurbishing
A little warm spell/thaw and seeing the roll cage almost complete I”m motivated to get …
Feb. 18
Roll Cage Progress
Finally back to the build and Kent is doing a great job fabbing the cage. …
Nov. 22
Precious Moments...
I picked up dad Saturday and thanks to some late season nice weather took us …
Nov. 17
Rear Hatch Stripped
Spent a few hours stripping about 5 layers of old paint of this thing, sanded …
Nov. 10
Front Bonnet Detailed
A couple evenings of wet sanding polishing and some gold pin striping I picked up …
Nov. 10
We Interupt this project...
Well, the racer build was put on hold for a couple weeks while a packed …
Oct. 12
Thanks Giving Paint...
I spent Thanks Giving day tarping up a paint booth in my shop, finish sanded, …
Oct. 09
Bonnet ready for paint
A couple of evenings in the garage this week got the bonnet to an acceptable …
Oct. 01
Bonnet almost ready for finishing
Finished the rough block sanding on the outer bonnet the last few nights, removing a …
Sept. 28
Finishing Underside of Bonnet
Finally back in the man cave and working on the racer. The bonnet is real …
Sept. 08
New Rimms
Picked up two nice sets of Rimms from a chap in Ottawa this week. Panasports …
July 16
Interior Painted Ready for Cage
Weekend plans were going down in flames Friday when I learned the place I hoped …
July 16
Starting into the roll cage last night...
I’m going overspec 1 3/4” .095 DOM tubing (I could use 1.5” but for the …
July 14
Cleaned and sealed floor & under body tonight
After a couple more hours of grinder, wire wheel, sander and a solvent/cleaner wash down …
July 13
Wrapped up the underbody/sheet metal tonight
I was just about to finish tacking the last bit under the drivers side floor …
July 11
Reenforcing Inner Rockers
Re Plated the inner rockers and did a little welding and plating under the floors …
July 07
Roll Cage Mount Plates
Started into the roll cage, cut and tacked in the 3/16” plate mount points for …
July 04
July 1st Weekend...
Working out the sheet metal work on the floors and in the trunk. Closed up …
July 01
Roll Cage Patterning
I spent a few hours in the garage tonight cutting and fitting cardboard as a …
June 28
Minor Frame work & cleaning
I managed a few more hours in the man cave tonight cleaning up my welds …
June 27
Stripping and Cleaning
June 27, another 7 hours in the driveway today with the water blaster, solvents, cleaners …
June 26
ReInforcing Floors
June 25, spent a few hours cutting and welding in 3/32 plate to re-inforce the …
June 25
Pulled the Motor
Final stages of stripping out the car prior to building it back up.. Ancilliaries and …
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