Not quite sure what the site etiquette is re showing of cars mid resto, but here goes....
After 19 years of ownership, this spring I took my 65 two-door Amazon off the road for a bare metal restoration/mild customization by Lance & co at Romance of Rust, Ealing, west London. As you can see from this pic, it'd got pretty tatty, mainly due to living on the streets of London for pretty much all of that time.
We took it back to bare metal, and found rust in some of the usual places, and some truly horrendous badly welded patches in some of the structural areas (the passenger side A-post had seven patches on it!). Here's a pic of the passenger side box section, which gives a taster:
Still, all sorted now, and the car is 10 times stronger than it was before.
We've also done some mild customizing along the way, including frenching the front and rear lights (but keep the shape of the original fitments), relocating the rear number plate to the bumpers, and tidying up some of the trim (a new bonnet trim made of brass). Here's a few pics to give the general idea:
Finally, here's a pic of one of wheels, which have been painted the same as the new body colour, a midnight blue pearl:
I'm keeping a full blow-by-blow record of the resto here at Autopendium. Do check it out if your interested, and would welcome comments. I'll try and post occasional updates and pics here when we reach major stages.
After 19 years of ownership, this spring I took my 65 two-door Amazon off the road for a bare metal restoration/mild customization by Lance & co at Romance of Rust, Ealing, west London. As you can see from this pic, it'd got pretty tatty, mainly due to living on the streets of London for pretty much all of that time.
We took it back to bare metal, and found rust in some of the usual places, and some truly horrendous badly welded patches in some of the structural areas (the passenger side A-post had seven patches on it!). Here's a pic of the passenger side box section, which gives a taster:
Still, all sorted now, and the car is 10 times stronger than it was before.
We've also done some mild customizing along the way, including frenching the front and rear lights (but keep the shape of the original fitments), relocating the rear number plate to the bumpers, and tidying up some of the trim (a new bonnet trim made of brass). Here's a few pics to give the general idea:
Finally, here's a pic of one of wheels, which have been painted the same as the new body colour, a midnight blue pearl:
I'm keeping a full blow-by-blow record of the resto here at Autopendium. Do check it out if your interested, and would welcome comments. I'll try and post occasional updates and pics here when we reach major stages.
Too late this side of the Atlantic. Time for some zzz's
