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I own and operate a small restoration shop in Australia. We focus on body and paint restoration of classic cars. We have also been known to do the occasional custom and a little accident repair (but try to keep that to classic cars). Here is a "skins off" resto of a Aussie delivered 56 coupe. I have recently been told this is one of 4 coupes delivered to Australia in 56. (please correct me if I am wrong).
Anyway, this is how we do it.
This is how the car was purchased by my client. It was purchased with the intention of restoring as soon as I could fit it in. The car presented fairly well, some minor front accident damage to the front clip, Right door. It had some fibreglass rust repairs to the original floors, longs,battery box etc. It has probably been restored a couple of times and suffered a typical late eighties red paint job (they all had to be red in the eighties right Justin!) Probably done in a regular smash repair shop (body shop) where it seems it was one of those cars that sat in the corner for years. Judging by the way it was reassembled it was probably thrown together at the last minute using all sorts of mix matched bolts from Australian ford and gm cars.
It is a complete numbers matching car and a 56 super AUD delivered car so pretty rare. originally Lago green met.
We decided to purchase a car to restore rather than purchasing a restored car. At the time of purchase most restored A coupes were running at least $100k. Sadly most of these high dollar cars were "Mudflaps" (Shiny on top and Sh%# underneath).
We advertised Australia wide and looked at quite a few cars finally purchasing the 56
It was pretty clear from the beginning that the skins had to be removed to allow full access to the inner structure and the inner rust repairs
Ready to go to Media blasting
Anyway, this is how we do it.
This is how the car was purchased by my client. It was purchased with the intention of restoring as soon as I could fit it in. The car presented fairly well, some minor front accident damage to the front clip, Right door. It had some fibreglass rust repairs to the original floors, longs,battery box etc. It has probably been restored a couple of times and suffered a typical late eighties red paint job (they all had to be red in the eighties right Justin!) Probably done in a regular smash repair shop (body shop) where it seems it was one of those cars that sat in the corner for years. Judging by the way it was reassembled it was probably thrown together at the last minute using all sorts of mix matched bolts from Australian ford and gm cars.
It is a complete numbers matching car and a 56 super AUD delivered car so pretty rare. originally Lago green met.
We decided to purchase a car to restore rather than purchasing a restored car. At the time of purchase most restored A coupes were running at least $100k. Sadly most of these high dollar cars were "Mudflaps" (Shiny on top and Sh%# underneath).
We advertised Australia wide and looked at quite a few cars finally purchasing the 56
It was pretty clear from the beginning that the skins had to be removed to allow full access to the inner structure and the inner rust repairs
Ready to go to Media blasting
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