It's a shame that the repaint was so heavy-handed. And whoever did it obviously ran out of Scotchblok paper and masking tape if the under bonnet pictures are anything to go by.
There is nothing horrendously complex at all about cutting rust out and stitching in new metal on old cars. Very simple in reality. Just takes time, patience, decent equipment and a bit of skill. Good fun as well!
There is nothing horrendously complex at all about cutting rust out and stitching in new metal on old cars. Very simple in reality. Just takes time, patience, decent equipment and a bit of skill. Good fun as well!
What you really have to look out for on old cars is the standard of previous repairs. Anyone seen the Yorkshire car restorations video of Shmee150's Porsche 914? Delivered to them with what looked like good exterior bodywork but once they got to work a horror story emerges. Filler inches deep. Then it becomes difficult to repair.
Moral of the story -beware shiny paint on old cars and take a magnet with you when viewing them.
www.theslshop.com
Exactly.
Arches and panels: easy.
Removing all the fascia and cabling in a forty-five year old SL, renewing the usually rotten bulkhead of an R107: more than £10k BEFORE you start priming and painting. And once you've done that much, you're tempted to redo the whole engine bay, and then the... and then the....
R107 Bulkhead Repair from SLSHOP
A Bulkhead repair by SLSHOP is a certified route to ensuring your car is road worthy and financially secure for another 50 years.
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Labour costs for bodywork repair are usually quite high - £10k doesn’t go that far when you consider how many hours work there is to remove everything needed, cut everything out, repair, refinish and refit etc plus the materials too.
I didn't get precise numbers from the three souls that I've known "struggle" with how to go forward with this
Commercial classic car restoration is a dying art in the UK. No wonder so many cars are now sent to places like Poland for relatively affordable restorations if classic owners are unable to restore them themselves in their sheds. Pity really seeing as the internet is a wonderful resource for getting the parts and advice needed to fix old cars.
No idea what the labour costs are at SL shop but they reckon 50 hours to fit the bulkhead panel alone:
Just like a woman...
And IIRC that was several years ago now
There is nothing horrendously complex at all about cutting rust out and stitching in new metal on old cars. Very simple in reality. Just takes time, patience, decent equipment and a bit of skill. Good fun as well!
What you really have to look out for on old cars is the standard of previous repairs. Anyone seen the Yorkshire car restorations video of Shmee150's Porsche 914? Delivered to them with what looked like good exterior bodywork but once they got to work a horror story emerges. Filler inches deep. Then it becomes difficult to repair.
Moral of the story -beware shiny paint on old cars and take a magnet with you when viewing them.
What was the SEC like?I had the opportunity to buy a low mileage visible rust free 380 SLC for less than 5 grand a few years ago off a mate. I didn't buy it because I always promised myself a SEC
In the space of 3 years it's probably tripled in value and it's now being used a ULEZ free daily drive and my mate is probably feeling exceptionally smug
He had a few pulley based issues when he started driving it daily and was only getting 8 mpg !!!! I haven't spoke to him in a couple of years so don't know if it's still going (it was the original inner London ULEZ)
You said you were offered an SLC but you turned it down because you always promised yourself an SEC.If it's the my mates SLC you mean, it was green with a lighter green velour interior, seventiestastic
It was insane that he had to scrap his X reg CLK with the 3.2 m112 that if the exact car had been built 6 months later it would have been compliant !!!
Same color as mine
