Restoration: part one

  This picture is made in France, where the car got rusty. (Click for large picture!)

 The previous owner, who imported it from France, had no time to begin with the restoration. When we got the car from him, all scrap-iron in his shed was throwed together on a trailer, everything could be a part of the car. We didn't know what it was, only that it once was a car. Later it came out that it was something unique!

The pieces were like a puzzle. When they were thrown together it looked like a car. The bodywork looks good on the pictures, but it was rotted away for 50%. The Iron was wrapped around a wire, so the shapes how the car once looked like were reducible. On these pictures, the welding of the bodywork was already started.

All bad rusty pieces in the bodywork were removed and replaced for new. The difficult places were the roundshaped fenders. They were totally rotted away and made new. The shapes were reducible to the wires, but what was totally rotted away at the left side, sometimes was half-rotted at the right side.

Bodywork is ready.

Here you see the undercarriage of the car. The engine and undercarriage were built by Rosengart in licence of the Britisch Austin seven.  

Engine on turnable sheerlegs.

  Next: more restoration pictures