Introducing my 69 Toro from Belgium

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Hello fellow Toro lovers,

I bought this car back in 1997 while I was 19y. Originally an export version (in km/h), it was first registered in Belgium in October 1969. The car was in fairly bad state but still driveable and I was crazy enough to buy it. I drove the car for few years, then started to restore it (quite badly I must say) in the early 2000s, and left it there - half restored.

The car in 1997

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The car in 2003

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In 2016, I decided to go much deeper and remove the frame from the body and went much more serious in the restoration, nevertheless family, house and work were given the priorities, hence the process is really slow. My son is 4 on the picture

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I now turned 45, and the car is still not on the road, so I decided to give it a boost, as this is my longest owned car and the one I drove the least.
My son turned 10 last year. He and my nephew connected the engine on the transmission, put the powetrain in the car and after a 2 days of work, got the engine running - this was good fun and learning experience for all of them.

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The car went to the bodyshop last year, but again, this is a slow process to get the body back in good shape, and I am looking for the 2 front fenders, hood and trunk from a donor car. It sounds crazy the car I bought when I was a teenager would become my car again at retirement age (if I continue moving at that pace) - sometimes it's though to think at the amount of work remaining to be done, so I prefer not to plan too big at once to keep the motivation. I saw some others in the forum who have done an impressive job!.

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Thanks for your time in reading all this,

Jean-Francois