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60s Chrome bumper MG RoadsterThis lovely little roadster had a great history. The MG belonged to the current owners father who had the choose of an E-type or an MG as a company perk whilst working in the states. During… Continue Reading →
We often get LHD American imports that claim to have come from a dry state yet the body condition when investigated tells a different storey. This Porsche 911 bucked the trend and was totally solid. The fact that the Targa… Continue Reading →
We all know that replica cars can be hit or miss in terms of there build quality. Often assembled using a mismatch of bits and bobs from various manufacturers cobbled together over a hand made GRP mould produced in someones… Continue Reading →
We are expanding our classic car restoration and painting services to include car body or panel, paint removal facility at our base between the boarders of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes. Many of you will know how immensely time consuming… Continue Reading →
Rare classic Fiat 1500 spider respray that turned in to a partial body restoration with panel fabrication.
From red to Jaguars gunmetal grey. See the work involved in respraying and repairing this iconic E-type Jaguar
Local car enthusiast Joe contact me via facebook to enquire about getting his VX220 race car painted and whilst we where there showed me his old VW Baja that he had bought for a bit of fun. The car was… Continue Reading →
Repainting and restoring a classic Ferrari Dino 246GT. lots of body shape research and oldschool panel beating techniques where used to reshape this classic Ferrari’s body shell to make it like new.
64 VW splitscreen painted in classic colours with a modern twist and a subtle painted custom roof design
1960s Mercedes 230SL body restoration. Lots of welding, lots of preparation lots of pride
A like new chassis and engine with lightweight GRP body panels should make this Triumph TR6 a straight forward paint job. but things are nether that easy.
Silver may be a common colour but it really suits the Karmann Ghia we restored for Charlie
As well as full body repaints and classic restoration we also do small repairs and accident repair including insurance or customer direct repairs. From stonechips, partial resprays and dents to MOT failures and accident repairs we can repair your classic… Continue Reading →
Chroming automotive parts has become very expensive in recent years and although spray on chrome has been around for a number of years the end result is never that close to real chrome and often looks more like polished steel… Continue Reading →
As long standing members of local VW club Wolfsburg Weed Huggers we were asked to make some trophies for the show and shine at their second Lazy Day event held in June 2013. This seemed like a great excuse to… Continue Reading →
The other week I was trawling through Ebay to see if any parts where available for our projects and I found an advert for a Citroen DS that was being broken in West Drayton. Upon phoning the number I found… Continue Reading →
The Renault Alpine A110 was a popular choice of rally car in the late 60’s to early 70’s this particular car was used by the Gendarmerie and Renault as a test bed for development concepts. Our client has owned his… Continue Reading →
Just to let you know we now accept Visa and Mastercard Payments. There is 2.75% surcharge for card payments below £1000 and 1.5% surcharge for payments over £1000. We also accept bank transfer and cash. Cheques can be used but… Continue Reading →
Toms goal was to have his Beetle ready for the 2013 Volksworld show. Although the beetle only had our standard finish the paint work did come out great. After we finished the paint job Tom set about the rebuild and… Continue Reading →
This Karmann Ghia cabriolet was bought to us for a respray but as with all good paint jobs the car needed some restoring first. Being a cabriolet the body does not have the strength of it’s coupe counterpart and… Continue Reading →
This will be an on going blog so please excuse the incomplete article…. Due to the unique way the Citroen DS/id range is constructed we will detail some of the more unusual body elements that take some figuring out to… Continue Reading →
One body shell for painting, modifying (to fit narrow beam) and a lot of repair work to the bolt on panels. All the panels on this Beetle are original or reclaimed. The body shows no sign of welding work and looks extremely original.
Part body restoration and respray of VW campervan. This briefly describes the work that is involved in painting a car in a different colour.
Painting a custom VW bug based Baja using an old conversion as the basis with subtle body kit modifications, Metal flake paint designs and hand written sign writing in spun gold leaf.
We don’t only paint cars we will also paint other things… fridges, cupboards, furniture and Oh yes motorcycles. Painted using a 3 stage paint waterbased candy colour paint.
Playing and designing car paint schemes using Forza 4 on Xbox 360. I decided to moc up the paint work on my VW Baja project using a video game.
Mx5 respray in military paint. Green and Black chemical resistant hard wearing paint.
A couple of examples of repair work carried out recently by The Paint Shop Pros on classic vehicles where colour matching and spray blending has been essential to achieve an invisible repair.
See a break down of the work involved in paint a car using this weeks job as an example. View the video and see the actual painting process in action