If you haven’t checked out our 1962 Elva Mk VI project yet over at Classic Motorsports, why not?
So far, we’ve covered how to repair fiberglass, how to mount a fiberglass body to a frame, and how to prepare parts for media blasting and powder coating.
And, for what’s it’s worth, this Elva even ran at the …
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed to know before tackling the Free GRM Europa project. I'll probably watch the video a few more times before even touching the grinder.
You can almost smell the Fiberglas in th air.
noddaz said:You can almost smell the Fiberglas in th air.
Yup.
The more work it takes to resurrect this car the less jealous I am of your having it.
OK OK who am I kidding I'm insanely jealous as they are such cool cars.
I think there's just something really cool about restoring a car with verifiable history behind it.
And maybe it really is possible to do for not-crazy money when you think about all the different ex-race shells out there combined with vast photo/information databases like the Collier collection.
With the internet the car doesn't have to come with documentation-you have a shot at rebuilding it's history with the now-digitized records.
In reply to CrustyRedXpress :
Yeah, it's cool when a car has some history behind it. Every car has a story, right? The trick can be finding it.
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