restoration

Hi everybody! The time has come to do a full restoration of my dads 5 GT Turbo in hopes that I complete it for his birthday in april. The story goes like this: My dad bought the car from Italy in the 90' and imported it in Slovenia - ex. Yugoslavia. I believe he was the or one of the first...

Bought this thing in Hamburg around 15 years ago, as a project it turned out :) It's been sitting around until approx 7 years ago, when I decided to start taking it apart. The project was going fairly okay, until I got the chance of buying a R5 GT Turbo which I prioritized instead of this...

Thought I'd start a thread on one of my Current work projects. (Pic heavy) A 1973 Porsche 911T So Originally the Customer (Always right) wanted to keep the patina (paint falling off in this case.) So we started on it with this in mind. A bit of Bracing. I Ended up having to Strip it all to...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143864196053 No shit sherlock! Most of the car is missing!

i was looking to buy a new soft top roof for my EBS convertible but can only find one supplier with one choice i thought i had found another one a few years back who had other options with different materials so any info or websites would be appreciated thanks adam hooper

The whole body of this Clio Williams is very well preserved. No serious rust spots or rust holes were found. First, all attachments were removed from the underbody. Only harmless, brown rust spots were found, such as here… … and rusted shielding plates of the exhaust system or rusted...

Engine, gearbox and front axle were expanded together. All attachments removed. Here is just a fraction of the new parts. All in all, the complete restoration of the entire car required more than 1000 part numbers. Also from other manufacturers parts were needed. For example, rubber...

You may already know, I'm up to my eyeballs on the restoration of my Renault 11 Turbo, with a detailed thread you can read all about on TurboRenault. But don't they say that the devil makes work for Idle hands... :secret.gif: So this summer during a bit of usual car parts eBay browsing, I...

Thought it was time to say a quick hello and give you all an update on our Renault 5 GTT project. It’s one of the few remaining J plates with 51K on the clock; although I’m not convinced this is genuine as the clocks stopping are quite common as most of you probably know. Having said that the...

Me and my son came across a Matra Jet 6 for sale and he decided to buy this car and import it to NZ. The Matra history is quite a lengthy one and very interesting for me. What makes it outstanding is that with its design in 1962/63 Rene Bonnet built it as a true mid engined car. The very first...

Restoration of the Gordini so far. Last one is my other project (Jensen) because obviously I'm mad !!

So as per my thread I am starting the job of removing and cataloging the items along with quick clean / review to revisit after the shell is sorted So hot topic is mould on seats and advice welcomed In terms of the seats I was going to air, good hoover and poss white vinegar mixed with water...

Here is the project done to overhaul the engine and the rusted body parts of Renault R5 project time laps pics is in this video:

As summer gradually slips into winter I wanted to give the Convertible roof on my wife's car a bit of a birthday before we put it away for winter and re-fitted the Hard Top to her car. I read a review in a magazine about a new Convertible Restoration Kit kit available from the Furniture Clinic...

Hi All, Having grown up watching these things rule the mean suburbs of Plymouth I have just got myself a fairly knackered GT Turbo to get running and slowly restore to the awesome machine it should be. It's this one: Ebay listing The winning bidder didn't collect so it ended up being mine for...

Just a few snaps of D999 OKL during restoration

I thought it was about time I started a thread to tell the story of Raggy...as my car is affectionately named. Raggy is a 1990 glacier white 5. It seems she has spent most of her life knocking around the West Midlands area. I bought her in February 2013 after seeing an advert on RTOC...

Hello Folks, Well, I've finally got round to it. Lurking in my garage for the past 15 years, almost to the day is my old R5GTT. It had served me well for several years before I bought myself a brand new Megane Alizé in September 1998. Of course, the intention of keeping it on the road was...

Afternoon guys. Most people know me from my RTOC thread "Back from Respray" this thread will be more of a prequel to that one and expand a bit more on the restoration work done before the car went into the spray shop. I purchased the car through a mutual friend for the small sum of £300 back in...

For those of you who don't know me, I restored my £600 Renault 5 Raider back in 2006 to OE condition. Since I completed that rebuild I've had an itch for an 11 Turbo for a while because I loved their rare/quirky factor so over a few mince pies during Christmas in 2011 I had a look...