Well last week the old man and me set out in the snow to pick up a very rough looking (in the 3 pictures he'd seen)gilbern,he's been after one for years but being tighter than a ducks arse refused to pay the going rate.picked this up,last taxed in 1980 for £22,expecting to be making a new chassis and possibly most of the body.had a good look at it now and it needs about 6" of box section replacing,the engine and transmission appear good,and everything is there,down to the electric windows!to say he's like a dog with 2 biscuits is an understatement,a nice easy resto project to plod along with now he's retired.


It looks far worse than it is with 30 years of moss SAP and bird crap,now its been rubbed down just needs afew repairs and fingers crossed very little money,just time to bring back to life!cheers to the gilbern owners club for cheering my grumpy old man up for Christmas

I meant the tax was £22 in 1980,the car cost abit more than that!

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looks like he will be busy lol good luck it should look nice with lots of tlc

wish I had one.

There was one just like that in my college workshop where I did my mechanics apprenticeship day release, we used to potch about with it for a laugh. It belonged to one of the lecturers who was restoring it slowly, using our free labour when he could

I live 2 mile away from where they were built!

Your old man would have liked this: LINK (FLICK THROUGH THE PICS)

It's the new bypass by me that runs just behind where the cars were made. They opened it with the GOC doing a run up one way then back down the other then it was opened to the general public. V Cool.

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I think it would look great as a pro street, with huge rear tyres and a rediculous amount of power.

I'm putting locking wheel nuts on my minilites before they end up on that!oh and I'm with the big power idea,but dads more a fan of the lazy Essex and being a rolling road block these days!still,one day it might be mine.....

My brother had a Gilbern a few years back - nice classic & still quite quick even by todays standards - worst thing about it was the wiring, which I think was a common complaint!

Nice. Well worth restoring. Are you going to tell us how much it cost?

I genuinely don't no,but he said the diesel going to get it was a fair percentage!

First kit car I ever built was a Gilbern Invader,