British Touring Car Championship – BTCC Cars Nobody can deny that the BTCC is an amazing, action packed racing Championship. But, once the season finishes in October, there’s no let up for the teams of people involved. Almost immediately. work begins to completely overhaul the competition race cars, with plenty of updates and changes to …
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Ford Mustang There’s just something about the Ford Mustang, we can’t explain it. We’ve worked on a few, including a Simon Hadfield Motorsport rennovation, and the ‘run around’ Tim Shaw likes to ensure he has full use of during the filming of Car S.O.S. That said, even as a fan of the Mustang, I don’t …
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Ford Escort Mark II The second generation Escort was produced from 1974 to 1981. They’re a much loved member of the Ford Escort family, with a squarer body style that distinguishes the car apart from it’s Mark I predecessor. Escorts have proved popular throughout the world – with many recent restorations beginning with the classic …
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Ford Capri A European legend of the 70’s and 80’s. In terms of looks, the Ford Capri definitely lived up to its creators’ expectations. Hopes were to create the same level of success within Europe that Ford had experienced in America with their Mustang. Not to mention, a rival to the Lotus Cortina. The Capri …
Ford Cortina paint removal This Ford Cortina has been hiding away in Valley Motorsport’s facility in Wrexham. They are the same company that brought us the prestigious Jaguar XK L9 and didn’t disappoint with their second delivery – this much loved 1960’s classic Ford. The Cortina looked to be in really good condition when it …
Ford Escort MkI This Ford Escort was one of the last cars we worked on at our old premises. Like a lot of Escorts, the rear arches have had a lot of filler work, which is easy to see on the ‘completed’ photos. The owner was moving the car using a covered trailer, so decided …
Ford Escort 1300 Dean brought his 1968 1300 Ford Escort shell to us as part of its restoration back in January. The complete rear of the car needed extensive repairs following accident damage, so we stripped the paint from everywhere else. As the shell was going to have repairs, and his chosen painter had quite …
A first for us, this 1946 Ford Coupe wasn’t recognised by a single person that visited our premises whilst we worked on it! The complete car was blasted (bought to us in two parts, the second half was worked on a week later!) Once blast cleaned:
Ford Escort Estate We worked on this Mk1 Ford Escort Estate at the end of 2015. The owner is completely restoring the car and is already over 18 months into the project. We were happy to help by glass media blasting the shell – inside, outside and underside, plus the panels including bonnet and boot. …
This single photo shows the difference that soda blasting made to this rear trailing arm!
This Escort had several layers of paint applied to it. It was a real pleasure to complete work to the car and to see the difference made over a few days. We blast cleaned the inside, outside and underneath of the Escort, before priming it and returning to it’s owner one week later. Here’s how …
These wheels were vapour blasted to prepare them for powder coating. Here they are on our custom built wheel stand and then with two cleaned, compared to how they arrived:
Being car guys at heart and knowing a little about Ford’s of the 80’s and 90’s, we were a only to happy to assist, when the owner of this series 2 RS turbo requested we Soda Blast the underside and engine bay of his project and ’40th birthday present’. The areas were stripped back to …
