Showing posts with label restoration shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restoration shop. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

West Coast Metric brought a 1/2 restored bug to the Bugorama, drivers side restored, passenger side old... cool to see how much better a car can look









West Coast Metric has restoration parts for 1946-79 bugs, Ghia, Things, Busses, and type 3's
https://shop.westcoastmetric.com/index.php

very fun to look at, reminded me of the other 1/2 restored car I photographed, the Falcon at SEMA 2 years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/half-done-falcon-from-fins-customs-and.html

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

If you have a classic Chevy musclecar, and didn't get the build or broadcast sheet, dealer window sticker, protecto plate, a perfect replicas are here

http://www.oldchevydocumentation.com/

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Of the 12 futurliners built, 8 exist, and one is getting restored in Sweden, here is a dedicated website to it's 4 year, 10 million dollar, resto

the website is in Swedish, but no problem from Google to translate to your language, just switch to Google Chrome for a web browser, and put http://www.classicmotor.se/futurliner/ in the address bar, and once the page loads... the browser will pop up a small bar at the top of the page and ask you if you want it translated. Simple. I recommend switching to Google Chrome, because lately Windows has not worked at translating for me

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Stumbled across the restoration and repair shop of this collection, accidental coolness!

Odd parking lot ornamenal conversation piece... first time I've seen a lost case in a business parking lot

That is an impressive stack of leaf springs



I've posted photos of this before, when it was at the Allied Gardens car show.. and I was told while taking this shot what it's story is. Back around 1970 there was an area of San Diego that trail bikes would enjopy, which torqued off the cops. The cops weren't allowed to off road the cop cars chasing the bikers, but of course they did, and the rocks caused flat tires. So the police dept needed a tow truck of their own to get the cars out of the wild country so they wouldn't be embarrassed by their stupidity when a tow truck company went out to haul the cars back to developed roads. So in 1970 they commissioned this unique International Harvester to be custom made. It's a one ton, no dualie rear axel, tow truck that is light weight and small enough to get off road, but stout enough to pull cop cars back to the city.
Donated with the full complement of medical accoutrements from when it was rolling out to save lives.

I wondered why they were bothering to keep a four door working, and learned it was a detective car... which makes it cool. It reminds me of 70's cop shows, and the ugly cars the detectives drove.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Symbolic hosted a morning meet at their Service and Restoration Center, WOW, great show!

So many questions... but indisbutably the best conversation starter there ever was in a Ferrari office. For the story behind the table: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/story-behind-crushed-ferrari-at.html

Out in the shop...












The first Lamborghini ever sold to the public

Tha battered metal? That's the remains of the original nose.



Only remaining example of a threesome made by a racecar driver, I think it's a Platte... but I'm not sure.

restoration work at Symbolic Motors repair facility







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