Showing posts with label restoration shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restoration shop. Show all posts
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
the preview for One Of One, a feature documentary filmed over five years about a family business established in 1952, of Tokyo car restorers, changing from the 2nd to the 3rd generation.
https://www.instagram.com/naitoengineering/
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Sunday, December 18, 2022
Sunday, October 02, 2022
1956 Little Gem camper trailer is getting rebuilt, and will be sold at Barrett Jackson next January
the video does use time lapse, but still, change your video speed setting to 2x speed
skip the first minute
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3446039128768332
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3446039128768332/user/100026685125977/
https://mrvrestoration.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/MrVintageRestoration/videos
Sunday, February 06, 2022
the founder of Lens Crafters has one of the largest collections of motoring magazines in the world
Dean Butler was born in Pennsylvania, started off his working life at Procter & Gamble, and although he gained his degree in chemistry, he founded optical giant LensCrafters, sold it and moved to the UK to create Vision Express.
He bought an MG TD at age 16, and 60 years later, still has it!
he has also collected a couple cars, some you may have heard of:
Louis Chiron’s 1931 Monaco GP-winning Bugatti Type 51;
one of the three Allard-Cadillac JRs that raced at Le Mans in 1953;
an ex-factory Maserati 8CTF, which also won the Pikes Peak hill climb in 1948 driven by Louis Unser
and the four wheel drive Miller
His brother Don runs the car restoration business Zakira’s Garage in Cincinatti, on 6219 Wooster Pike, which was begun from passion and the necessity to service their incredible collection of cars, raced in the UK under the moniker EDB Racing.
and Zakira's specializes in Miller race cars, producing three Miller designs from scratch: the supercharged 122-cubic-inch and 91-cubic-inch fours, plus the V-16 originally intended for use in the Cord L-29.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
before, and after, the restoration
the radio hole was welded back to the original, and an OEM radio was installed, and the AC was replaced with the correct year, and a Rally Pac was installed
Monday, December 09, 2019
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Monday, November 14, 2016
The before and after photos of the sinkhole Corvette
the slide image is from the original images on the GM website, where you can see the before and after by clicking on the slide feature and slipping from side to side.
After recovery from the sinkhole, the 1 millionth Corvette was moved from the museum to the Design Center on GM’s Technical Center campus in Warren, Mich., for restoration.
“As the one and only 1 millionth Corvette, its preservation was important to us as the designers of the vehicle – and as Corvette enthusiasts,” said Ed Welburn, former vice president of GM Global Design.
“One of the most highly skilled specialty shops, a team of 30 people, and GM focused enthusiasts, craftspeople and technicians from GM Design’s Mechanical Assembly group, along with GM Service Operations, took on the project. Mechanical Assembly and the Fabrication Shops at GM Design build concept vehicles and maintain GM’s historic vehicle collection, so they were fully prepared to take on the challenge.”
Despite extensive damage, the team, represented by UAW locals 160 and 1869, vowed to preserve and repair as many original components as possible – a decision that involved posterity as much as history. That’s because under the skin, the 1 millionth Corvette carried all those signatures from the Bowling Green Assembly workers who built the car.
http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2015/sep/0903-corvette.html
there it is in the above image on the left in the deep pit under the floor
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/travel/gallery/one-millionth-corvette-restoration/index.html
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
If you know Duesenbergs, you probably have heard of Ema. Obviously, I'm still learning, as this is all new to me
Ema has restored 52 Duesenbergs in his 30 years in business; six Model Js restored by him have scored first places at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. He reckons he has 28,000 original drawings and 1,000 patterns to make Duesenberg parts. "We can make exact reproductions, as opposed to those which look okay and are a testament to the success of guesswork," he says.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-05-31/lenos-latest-duesie
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-05-31/lenos-latest-duesie
Monday, March 21, 2016
Ming's, the well known Honda restoration shop, scored some 1967 N600s, one happened to be serial #1
When Honda's first fleet of 50 prototype N600s finished winter testing in 1967, they were sold for scrap to a junkyard, a few days later a Honda employee saw one heading down the road—it turns out the enterprising scrapyard owner decided to make a little money on the side as America's first bootleg Honda dealer. Honda made sure the remaining 47 cars were crushed, but three N600s had already escaped into the wild.
"They took 50 [Japanese market] N360s off the assembly line," Tim Mings says, speaking from his shop in California, "And installed these hot-rod 600cc engines. You can see how many of the parts are early prototypes, lots of sand-cast metal."
Mings found one of the three escapee '67 prototypes sitting on a trailer in Pomona, and made an offer. As it turned out, the owner had another N600 in his garage and asked if Mings wanted that one, too. He bought the car sight unseen and took it back to his garage where it sat for several years. Until one day he scraped off some of the debris covering the VIN, and there it was: N600-1000001.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/03/coming-america-first-ever-honda-n600-gets-restoration-video-series/
If you want your own chance to see the first Honda in America, jot the Long Beach Japanese Classic Car Show on your calendar. Now in its 12th year, Mings calls the show a must-see event. After that, serial number one will be tucked away in Honda's private museum in Torrance, which isn't open to the public.
http://www.thedrive.com/article/2634/the-first-ever-honda-in-the-us-gets-a-second-chance-at-life
Followup, Apr 2017:
http://www.automobilemag.com/news/honda-n600-serial-one-restoration
Saturday, January 02, 2016
I just learned of a prestigious antique car restoration business near Pasadena, Tired Iron Works
the blue car in the middle above is the million franc 1937 Delahaye, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-car-hitler-had-personal-vendetta.html
https://www.facebook.com/Tired-Iron-Works-104201099745298/
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Academy of Art University in San Francisco just launched its Automotive Restoration program, which teaches students traditional restoration techniques
Tom Matano, who heads Academy of Art’s auto design programs created the legendary Miata and held executive design positions at Mazda, GM and BMW.
Mr. Matano has almost 30 years of experience in the automotive industry, holding design positions at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, GM Holden’s Ltd. in Melbourne, Australia, and BMW in Munich, Germany. In 1983, he joined Mazda’s North American studio as a Chief Designer.
The Academy of Art University has been there, to enable students to create since 1929.
The industry demand has alerted colleges to the need for entry level college grad restorers with the skills, historical knowledge, and research ability required for replicating historically authentic classic cars.
Vehicle restoration requires parts to be repaired or reproduced because many cannot be purchased, so training in hands-on skills and machining or repairing parts in historically accurate authentic appearance.
The vintage Automotive Restoration program prepares students for a career in a preservation field by focusing on techniques in woodwork and machine work, sheet metal work, upholstery work, systems knowledge, and process of disassembly and assembly, coupled with historical studies and research skills needed to restore vintage vehicles.
Our students will receive training on how to evaluate a component and determine if it must be fabricated or if it can be repaired.
The School of Industrial Design has the facilities and a Automobile Museum where a significant number of cars have already been fully restored to the highest standard where students can closely examine and work on many aesthetically remarkable examples, and is now ranked #4 in the Red Dot World Ranking of Industrial Design schools.
Students will gain hands-on skills in making accurate technical drawings; duplicating automotive woodwork; repairing, replicating, and sculpting auto body panels to factory specifications; painting auto body panels using industry standard equipment; and reassembling restored components back to a superb and visually correct functioning automobile, ready for shows.
ONLINE AT: academyart.edu
BY PHONE: 1.800.544.2787
IN PERSON (Monday-Saturday)
79 New Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA 94501
Led by Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum, the group arrived in San Francisco to review the work of these students, who spent their summer semester designing and creating concepts for year 2030 Jaguar automobile interior designs. The Academy was one of the two universities Jaguar selected for corporate sponsorship in America.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
a small restoration shop I've never heard of, but only 30 miles away, is so good an Alaskan museum send vehicles to it
Allen Schmidt's Horseless Carriage Restoration http://www.restorationstuff.com/news.html in Escondido in Southern California, just 30 miles north of San Diego
http://fountainheadauto.blogspot.com/2015/01/on-road-scottsdale-and-escondido.html
Thursday, July 17, 2014
"old 79" is a "Dain" John Deere (1918) found in Minnesota, the owners weren't aware of it's historic significance
Images found on http://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/viewtopic.php?t=851953
The Dain, which pre-dates John Deere’s first 2-cylinder tractor (the 1923 Model D), was put on permanent display at the John Deere Collectors Center in Moline, Ill., March 13, 2004.
Joseph Dain – a company vice president, board member and head of the patent and experimental department – began work on an “efficient, small-plow tractor” in 1914. Building on the failed attempt by C.H. Melvin, and later Max Slovsky, to develop a 3-bottom motor plow a few years before, Dain set to work on his own model.
Unfortunately, Dain died of pneumonia on Halloween 1917 after spending a wet, cold week field-testing the tractor, just before the Dain’s production began. Even as the first 100 Dain tractors were built, Deere Co. bought the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co., which manufactured both stationary engines and tractors. Deere Co. suddenly had no reason to continue developing the Dain, and quickly fell in love with the Waterloo Boy kerosene-burning tractor, which was more affordable, equally advanced and already successfully in production.
The Dain was well-advanced, sporting features that John Deere tractors didn’t utilize until the 1960s and some not even until the 1980s. Many of those features include a gear-driven water pump, key ignition, on-the-go shifting, shiftless speed changing and positive traction. These features, however, made the Dain too expensive for most farmers to afford its $1,500 price tag.
This particular Dain tractor’s history started like any other. Emil Obitz of Stockton, Minn., bought the tractor from a John Deere dealer in Winona, Minn., in 1918. He used it for about a decade until he traded it for a Model D in 1928. The receiving dealership’s owner, in turn, loaned the Dain to his brother, who used it for a year then parked it in the trees because of an engine malfunction.
Hansen had known about the tractor’s whereabouts as a boy, and after he returned from military service, he researched and confirmed the special nature of the Dain. Hansen then had Lee Sacket Tractor Restorations restore the neglected Dain tractor from pure rust, and displayed it at antique tractor shows until he died about a year ago.
The John Deere company has an event every even numbered year in Moline, called the Gathering of the Green
The Lee Sackett Tractor Restoration company also restored the Minneapolis Moline RTS that was at SEMA 2023 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/11/this-must-be-1st-tractor-ive-seen-at.html
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