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Everything You Need to Know About Car Restoration
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If you’ve been keeping up with automotive news, trends, and companies at all, you’ve probably noticed the increasing mentions of car restorations – classic cars are having an unprecedented bout of popularity and that popularity has resulted in this industry booming beyond levels previously thought unimaginable. With this unprecedented popularity, a lot of articles have surfaced trying to capitalize on its popularity and peddle nonsense – you want an article that cuts through all the malarkey and acts as the definitive source to learn about car restorations. Keep reading then, you’ve just found what you need.

What’s the Purpose of Car Restoration?

The purpose of car restoration, as should be evident by its name, is to restore the car to its former functionality and aesthetics. It is fundamentally different from refurbishment or maintenance – if you take your car to a regular mechanic, they’ll usually tell you about the horsepower of the new engine he’s going to install in the car or the sharpness of the new coat of paint, but something you’ll rarely see him mention in the authenticity and the faithfulness of these changes to the original design.


As long as the engine is fully functional, compatible, and reliable, the mechanic doesn’t care about much else.  But, if you have to change so many things about the car, how can you genuinely say it is the same car anymore? It’ll become just another generic good looking car in the sea of millions of others. An increasing number of drivers don’t want that – they want to keep their car authentic and faithful to the original design.

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The purpose of car restoration is to make the car fully functional and look excellent again, while at the same time using original parts from the dealership – it is perfect for people who have rare, classic, or expensive cars that want to preserve the value, both monetary and otherwise, of their car.

What Does a Restoration Involve?

Naturally, the restoration process is different from one car to the next, but, generally, there are some common steps in almost all restoration jobs.

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  • Disassembly and inventory: unless your car only needs a surface paint job, your car will likely need to be disassembled. Disassembling a car, especially a classic, isn’t an easy job, however. It needs an experienced team that is familiar with your car’s dealership to ensure no part of your car gets damaged or scratched in the process.
  • Sanding: if you want a decent and immaculate paint job, sanding is necessary. It removes the old paint and primes the metal for the new coat of paint. If you are planning on repainting your car and you don’t go through this step, there a chance your car’s new paint will be short-lived, quickly fades, and won’t look nearly as good. And as most cars going through a restoration are relatively high-end and pricey, this step is even more necessary.
  • Painting: the painting job itself is also one of the necessary parts of a restoration. Even though a ton of car enthusiasts care about what’s inside their car more, a lot of normal people only judge a car by how it looks from the outside. If you plan to take the car to important meetings or want to enter car competitions, you definitely need this step.
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  • Upholstery: the seats inside our cars are one of its most vulnerable parts of the car, and they are one of the hardest to restore. Whether they need to be thoroughly detached, washed, cleaned, and polished or completely replaced – you need to take care of them. Sadly, most teams aren’t capable of classic car upholstery repair work and you need to be careful who you trust do you the restoration job.
  • Mechanics and assembly: making sure all the mechanical parts of the car are fully functional, testing each of them and replacing all the worn-out, broken, and damaged ones is the essence of a good restoration job. You need to use a company that ensures they replace the parts with new and fully-functional parts obtained from the carmaker. After that, the team needs to carefully reassemble your car while ensuring no part of it gets damaged in the process. When they are done, you’ll finally have your car fully restored and raring to go.

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