Restoration

Thanksgiving 2007… Time to drop the body onto the chassis. The chassis was in roll around mode and the Europa body was on its tall rolling cart. Two stout males can lift and manipulate the body into place but you run

I had to spend way too many hours sanding and rubbing out the Europa body. But until I was happy, I had to keep rubbing and sanding and rubbing and sanding. It wasn’t that the paint was bad. It just wasn’t

After doing some research (talking to Carl Sarro and Rich Cwik), I found out that the color of the wheels were not really truly straight black. They are supposed to be a little bit more of a real dark gun metal

Back at the house, it was time for some paint. I had spent a day shooting the final shots of primer and sanding it all down with 400 grit. I blasted out the garage with the leaf blower and headed

I got the engine all buttoned up and looking very pretty sitting on the engine stand. Now its tranny time. Got her all cleaned and spiffied up with a fresh coat of silver paint during a previous visit, time for

Back up at the lake, chassis assembly was moving along. Front uprights and shocks went on without a hitch, but the front sway bar was a chore. The front bar is mounted to the bottom of the front shocks with

I took a few months off working on the Europa to finish up assembling Paul’s Elan. Let me refresh your memory on the history of this car… a psychedelic Flashback to 1996 if you will. This was the blue Sunday

Europas have these real long steel tubes that connect the fluids in the engine that’s in the back to the radiator that is in the front. The tubes are 2″ in diameter, about 6′ long and held in place with rubber grommets, front

Work continues on the roof removal and subsequent glassing in of steel framework. Bad planning here, too much vertical work, hard to layer up glass with ease of a horizontal surface. I struggle through doing small sections at a time. Next brain

Last month I reported on the roll over frame. Even though it wasn’t next, we shall continue on for continuity sake. When I figure out exactly how; I will place the photo album on the web, but for now know there