What's the newest restored car you know?

[LotusOmega375D]

It used to be common for a car to need scrapping or restoring after about 10 years or so, but I've never yet heard of anyone restoring a 21st century "classic". I don't mean just a bit of bodywork or an engine rebuild, but a full ground up restoration. I wonder if anyone has on here or who will be the first?

[The Surveyor]

With the TVR section being full of Chimaeras, Griffith and Cerbers having full body-off chassis repair work due to the the poor powder coat used and chassic neglect. Cars as late as 2000 needing doing, does that count or is that classed as TVR maintenance

Paul

[jimbob82]

The Surveyor said:

With the TVR section being full of Chimaeras, Griffith and Cerbers having full body-off chassis repair work due to the the poor powder coat used and chassic neglect. Cars as late as 2000 needing doing, does that count or is that classed as TVR maintenance

Paul

that's under general maintenance in every TVR book

[Monty Zoomer]

jimbob82 said:

The Surveyor said:

With the TVR section being full of Chimaeras, Griffith and Cerbers having full body-off chassis repair work due to the the poor powder coat used and chassic neglect. Cars as late as 2000 needing doing, does that count or is that classed as TVR maintenance

Paul

that's under general maintenance in every TVR book

It was probably part of the PDI

[spoodler]

I've seen a few late model MX5s that have been fairly extensively restored/rebuilt and there at least one Subaru Impreza that may qualify.
A mate of mine had to have his three month old Peugeot estate "fully restored" after he drove it into a ford and didn't make it out the other side...

[Compo_Simmonite]

In 1980's I had a look at the brand new Dacia Duster. The dealer was quite proud to say they virtually had to dismantle them and rebuild as PDI ! The paintwork from the factory was terrible - grinding rust under the paint that was rusting through. Recently have a look at the current model and whilst not so bad on top the underside (on ramp) was unfortunatley just the same with rust starting on welded joints of suspension, plain, unplated nuts & bolts covered in surface rust yet nil miles on clock.
I had to rebuild the bodywork on my Cortina estate when it was 6 years old due to rot. Inner and outer sill on one side, one chassis leg, A post under wings, inner wings, front panel above headlights, top of wings, replace complete tailgate due to rot on bottom, corners of skuttle panel, bottom of a rear door etc. BTW it still exists abroad in the hands of a friend and has done over 250,000 miles on the original 1.6 Pinto albeit now very smokey.

Paul H

Edited by Compo_Simmonite on Thursday 6th June 20:43

[Furyblade_Lee]

My friends business has restored year 1999 classic minis, total rotboxes which people are willing to fork out up to £10k on them for him to rebuild and rustproofed properly so they get 10+ more years from them looking pretty. Full length floorpans in some
He reckons if you would have put him into the compound where the classic minis were stored outside, even just 3 months from being built he could find rust on every single one of them if you knew where to look.

[Jimmy No Hands]

Furyblade_Lee said:

My friends business has restored year 1999 classic minis, total rotboxes which people are willing to fork out up to £10k on them for him to rebuild and rustproofed properly so they get 10+ more years from them looking pretty. Full length floorpans in some
He reckons if you would have put him into the compound where the classic minis were stored outside, even just 3 months from being built he could find rust on every single one of them if you knew where to look.

£10k would get you a real mini in the first place!

[jimbob82]

Whilst BL workers were striking (post the jaguar take over) Mk2 jag shells were sitting in fields with grass growing through them and they then had to be welded before they could be built up.