Rutger-peer
The restoring Dutchman.
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Hey everybody,
I promised I would keep a restoration thread, so here it is!
I actually started with the restoration last weekend, for I stripped the interior of the car then but the real disassembly started today. I will keep it short this time since the photographs say enough for themselves. Tomorrow I will continue disassembly, probably take off the inner wings, remove the engine and the windows, even might make a start taking of the body. But I think that'll be quite a challenge since I guess I will be working alone. But maybe I'm going to improvise a bit with some ropes and catrolls etc.
Anyway, here are the pictures of what I did today:
At about half past 3 my R4 looked like this
The inside
Rot in the backfender. I'm going to repair that with a repairstrip like Malcolm did on his Gordini (okay, only on one side ).
Minus Grille and bumper.
Quite a step forward
Goes without saying.
At the end of the day
Very good wheelarch (unlike the other side).
I had the occasional breaking bolts ofcourse, as well as kinda rotten inner wings, a front door with 2 very bad hinges (in fact, there was a bent nail put through the holes of the hinge in stead of the original pin) and some other minor things.
Anyway, tomorrow will see more progress. I'll keep you updated!
Bye!
I promised I would keep a restoration thread, so here it is!
I actually started with the restoration last weekend, for I stripped the interior of the car then but the real disassembly started today. I will keep it short this time since the photographs say enough for themselves. Tomorrow I will continue disassembly, probably take off the inner wings, remove the engine and the windows, even might make a start taking of the body. But I think that'll be quite a challenge since I guess I will be working alone. But maybe I'm going to improvise a bit with some ropes and catrolls etc.
Anyway, here are the pictures of what I did today:
At about half past 3 my R4 looked like this
The inside
Rot in the backfender. I'm going to repair that with a repairstrip like Malcolm did on his Gordini (okay, only on one side ).
Minus Grille and bumper.
Quite a step forward
Goes without saying.
At the end of the day
Very good wheelarch (unlike the other side).
I had the occasional breaking bolts ofcourse, as well as kinda rotten inner wings, a front door with 2 very bad hinges (in fact, there was a bent nail put through the holes of the hinge in stead of the original pin) and some other minor things.
Anyway, tomorrow will see more progress. I'll keep you updated!
Bye!