by Exoticars USA | Oct 21, 2010 | Car shows, Lamborghini, restoration
Pre-War Car: Vauxhall Hurlingham One of our customers, who usually has a Ferrari or Lamborghini for us to wrench on, asked us if we would work on his beautiful 1928 Vauxhall Hurlingham Speedster. “Why not?” we said and wound up doing an extensive...
by Exoticars USA | Aug 10, 2009 | Car shows, restoration
This 2-day 50+ year old Pennsylvania car show drew smaller crowds due to predicted rain on Sunday. We still had a great time and enjoyed running into old friends and meeting new car lovers. If you plan to go next year, here is the official website where show winner...
by Exoticars USA | Jul 11, 2009 | Maserati, restoration
Just sharing a photo from this morning, saying ‘goodbye’ to a Maserati Ghibli SS that was finally headed home to her owner (original owner, I think) after a lengthy restoration. This is a basket-case to first place example of a sportscar brought back to...
by Exoticars USA | Jun 1, 2009 | restoration
Fiat Abarth ‘double bubble’ One of our latest projects is this 1960 Fiat Abarth Zagato with a hand made aluminum body by Zagato. I flew to France last spring for a long time client to perform a PPI (pre-purchase inspection) on this car and actually...
by Exoticars USA | Oct 17, 2008 | Lamborghini, restoration
We powder coated the wheels black. We like the new look. Powder coating is a great process yielding stunning results for wheels and all kinds of parts. Leather dashes shrink, unfortunately. Here the black leather on the dash had shrunk along the forward edge at the...
by Exoticars USA | Oct 8, 2008 | export, Jaguar, restoration
This 1959 Jaguar XK 150S roadster was found in a barn in Texas, with a bullet hole in the windshield. Now spot free from rust and protected in primer, it waits. Has been waiting in our barn in NJ for 8 years for restoration work to resume. How much longer before it...
