Lotus restoration
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:49 pm
Ok so I've been on here asking a couple of bits and bobs here and there, I hadn't had my elan plus 2 long but just before Christmas I had a little bit of an accident, accelerating on the wet dual carriage way the back end spun out, we spun three times left the road and lightly clipped a lamp post !
It caught the door and back wing, and I thought I'd go through the insurance, unfortunatly none of there approved repairers wanted to know and they weren't that interested in the quit I had got so they wrote it off as a cat d
But not wanting to be the guy who writes off a 50 year old car I bought it back,l
Now the car was restored in 2004 previously to an ok standard but was starting to look tired, and I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I'd say the person that did it before probably wasn't
The car passed an not 6 weeks before the accident with no advisories and was mechanically perfect
So I figured it's time to new a new restoration the way I'd like to have it, engine wise I will be fixing a couple of leaks, renewing all the hoses etc for future piece of mind, and having anything shiny polished, and anything tired looking sorted out
The main thing was the body work which had plenty of defects, few bubbles, stone chips etc and any rubbers will be replaced and the chrome had already been sent away to the chromers so I figure I'll add a few pics as I go on and I'm acctually further along than these pics but I forgot to take new ones today
It caught the door and back wing, and I thought I'd go through the insurance, unfortunatly none of there approved repairers wanted to know and they weren't that interested in the quit I had got so they wrote it off as a cat d
But not wanting to be the guy who writes off a 50 year old car I bought it back,l
Now the car was restored in 2004 previously to an ok standard but was starting to look tired, and I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I'd say the person that did it before probably wasn't
The car passed an not 6 weeks before the accident with no advisories and was mechanically perfect
So I figured it's time to new a new restoration the way I'd like to have it, engine wise I will be fixing a couple of leaks, renewing all the hoses etc for future piece of mind, and having anything shiny polished, and anything tired looking sorted out
The main thing was the body work which had plenty of defects, few bubbles, stone chips etc and any rubbers will be replaced and the chrome had already been sent away to the chromers so I figure I'll add a few pics as I go on and I'm acctually further along than these pics but I forgot to take new ones today