CLASSIC MOTORWORKS

Last week saw the return of the DB6 which we are working on in collaboration with Aston Service Dorset. Previously we had refinished the chassis and shown it in a previous post. When it left us it went back to Aston Service to have all the refurbished suspension fitted and then back up to Shapecraft for the outer panels to be finished and fitted. Now back with us in a dry built state ready for final fettling and painting. The customer has yet to choose a colour!! We will keep you up to date with progress over the next few months.

Here’s another rather impressive and unusual Front End Friday post. A supercharged Petersen Bentley with low flying DB4!!!! When Jamie had his Bentley built last year Bob Peteresen was over the moon that he asked if it was possible to have a tow bar on it!! He said he had always wanted a customer to ask for one and beautifully engineered a removable one for Jamie’s car. Since the car arrived Jamie has been looking for a suitable “load” to tow and when he saw Paul’s DB4 in the workshop last week he hatched a plan!! Paul and Pam very generously not only lent us their car, but also their Manor so today we took the cars up and took some pictures in front of the house. The eagle-eye‘d will note the car is not secured on the trailer as we were all way too nervous to actually move the combination just pose it for the pictures!! Thanks to all who made it possible and next week we are going to start posting more project updates.
Just as an aside it was 8 years ago yesterday that we first launched the Classic Motorworks page!!

Next to be introduced is this 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. We have only just started this project recently. The car is going to have a bare metal respray and all the steel substructure refinished in original black. Unfortunately as is usually the case , once the car was stripped and paint stripped the project immediately grew due to corrosion and poor historical repairs! As the owner absolutely adores this car and plans to keep it it wasn’t a hard decision to do the job correctly. So the skins have been removed from the doors and the frames media blasted and epoxy primed to be repaired ready for new door skins. The wings have been stripped, corroded areas cut out, media blasted and epoxy primed. The rather intricate door seal retaining channels are having to be either repaired or replaced. Lots of nice new metal has arrived from CitroenDS.net. One of the many Citroen quirks is the use of some unusual sized fasteners such as M7 and M9 nuts and bolts that we have had to source specially for this job and we have even been able to find the correct Citroen style and size washers too!!! A DS looks really strange with all of its panels removed and not many people recognize what it is when they see it. It looks like we are going to have to take a trip to France to collect a replacement roof from a breakers we have been recommended just outside Dinan As this one is badly corroded. We will try and do regular updates on this project as it progresses.