Category Restoration

Purchasing classics there

Restore yourself… a fat Healey

The idea is that everyone used to restore them and that classics are now only bought in tip-top condition by investors or the newly rich looking for nice lifestyle things. That deserves a comment. Because if you are in 'the classical world', you can usually name a handful of fellow sufferers who at least tinker themselves and possibly half of them have at least a restoration history.

Originality and patina

"Everyone is nice." That is of course the wise lesson in classic country. One person doesn't like Japanese classics at all, the other is sure that the early shovelheads were the last Real Harleys. And a Zastava? Which has been converted into an Abarth look-a-like? Is that an abomination or heart-conquering?

Restoration is investing in loss

Well… almost always. And of course we have to take into account that the world has gone mad. Yet. When I saw the advertisement about the - of course again - Moto Guzzi V7 found in a shed, I immediately fell in love. From experience, however, I immediately put him in oblivion. In the meantime he will no doubt have been sold or adopted.
VW T3 restoration

VW T3 by Hans Rump and an original restoration

Much is said and written about keeping a classic original. One owner keeps it to the original specifications, or restores it in this way. The other opts for a conversion to electric. Hans Rump chose evolution, and put his personality in his VW Typ2 T3 Pritschenwagen. He saved him from destruction and created something special: a VW T3 with 1.9 TDI engine and 147 HP. It was an original restoration, without Hans keeping the original condition intact. But it did unambiguously hold onto the character of the Volkswagen.