This blog is about work being done by one of our customers at home – the photos below are not of work being done at Monocoque Metalworks.
If you go back about a year to sometime last Winter, there is a blog posting entitled “Monocoque Woodworks?” It is the story of us supplying an original roof and rear hatch for a BADLY wrecked E-Type coupe. At the time, I had said that this guy was my hero for even ATTEMPTING this – well, you won’t believe the photos I received this morning – he has actually pulled it off!!!
I don’t have the time to put happy little captions on these photos, and most of them are repeats from that earlier post. What you are seeing here are photos of the car as purchased in New Mexico I believe, our roof panel that we shipped over to the UK where the car ended up, and then recent photos of the work the new owner did, mating our roof to the body shell AND restoring the shell in the process.
This car was actually featured on the “Bring a Trailer” website, where everyone thought it was a big joke – but like Richard in the UK, I could still see hope in this matching-number wreck… And I’m now happy to have been involved (though in a small part…) in its resurrection! I decided a few years ago that the rusty but straight and solid roof below was not going to be scrapped on my watch, and Richard obviously decided that the rolled coupe would not be either – on his watch!
Richard’s work is proof once again that ANY E-Type can be brought back if you want it bad enough! And while everyone laughed on “Bring a Trailer” – now, if things stay on track (and I’m betting they will based on what he’s done so far!) Richard will be the one laughing this coming Spring – as he blasts down country roads in the UK in his freshly restored E-Type!
HATS OFF to you, Richard – Job WELL done!!!
