Well, that was a rough week! Fortunately the weekend is here so it’s time to play, and I have a new toy thanks to a couple of productive nights at the workshop. Hot on the heels of the last post about the “Flamethrower” Ferrari 250GTO, here’s the next one I bought, which I got cheap, and you can see why!
I could have spent more and bought a cleaner one, yes; but like I’ve said countless times, I really enjoy buying these old junkers and bringing them back to life, so I often look for the most forlorn and neglected ones I can find. If that was the goal, I really scored here!
This yellow GTO was so filthy I wasn’t sure it was ever going to look good or run again. The chassis was in-tact but gunked up with carbon and brown with corrosion, and showed not a sign of life, so it needed a complete going-over, cleaning, de-corroding, and new brushes. As bad as it was, the body was far worse. I don’t even know how it got to be this way, but this car was coated with nasty, ground-in grime that no normal soap-and-water wash was going to remove. It also had been stepped-on or crushed so that the roof was tweaked and lowered a bit, which is hard to fix, but the roof posts were in tact and the wheel wells were uncut. For the other ailments: I have my tricks!
Here are the results of a few of those tricks! Take a look at the “before” photos, and then take a look at her now!
Hubba Hubba! You did a great job on this restoration! It looks as good as new. I think that is awesome how you saved this one and turned it into a real jewel! Great Job!!!
Why thank ye! It is great fun bringing them back like this, and it takes a bit less time and money than doing the same to a real car, as you well know!
Absolutely, and I think there is something powerful about restoring something back to how it was meant to be!