Restoration
We keep the original metal as far as we can.
Swapping a whole panel is quicker than repairing it. On a collector car you pay for that at resale, the day a buyer looks under the boot floor. So we only cut what no longer holds, and we show you first.
The survey
A restoration starts with a strip-down and photographs. While the car is dressed, nobody knows what is underneath. The costing comes after, once we have seen the corrosion, the old repairs and what the previous workshop left behind.
The model we know
The Dino comes through this workshop again and again. We know where it rusts, how its wings were redone in the eighties, where its figures drift. On a job that runs a year, that familiarity saves weeks.
The period colour
Finding the factory colour again means getting the formula, then adjusting it. Today's pigments do not behave like the old ones. We spray, compare against a sheltered part of the car, and start over if the difference shows.
Restoration
What a restoration covers
- Full strip-down and photographed inventory
- Shell taken back to bare metal, corrosion treated
- Metal repair, panels formed to shape
- Chassis brought back to specification on the jig
- Primer, period colour and clearcoat
- Reassembly, loom and trim through our partners
- Mechanical recommissioning and road testing