Hello
As requested by some forum members, this is some pictures of a car restoration projet I work on with my father.
The car is an Citroën B14 of 1928, (no warbird connection at all, simply the same will to "restore an old thing").
The chassis is in steel, but all the other structure is in wood with external metal sheet cover.
The car is in our familly since 40+ years: the uncle of my father owned it, and recently decided to sell it to my father.
So we debut with a trip to Normandy to retrieve the car :
After starting dismantling, as expected the car is in good condition: a bit of corrosion on some area, but nothing really bad:
One of the worst corrosion area: on the back "fenders" (correct word ?) : as they were slighty damaged, we find new ones build from scratch to replace them.
Under side : backward to front : the drive shaft.
One of the two "toolbox" compartiment, as they are in the bottom of the car, they are very vulnerable, this one was hit by someting during the 84 years of life of this car.
The most complicated part (and visible when fit on the car) was in good shape, all the bottom part was build from scratch.
The two tool boxes and the battery compartiment, restored, painted and ready to be fitted:
One of the doors after restoration.
The back door restoration (this car is one "utility car" with a loading area on the back and two seat in front.
Fuel tank stripped and ready to be paint: the fuel tank is just atop to the engine: no fuel pump, the gravity do the job.
The inside of the car : all the wood covering inside was replaced and the two seat needed to be build from scratch.
Lot of work ahead, no estimation of date of completion.
Sorry for the bad english: with a few years spent on this board, I learned "aviation english words" but not yet "old cars vocabulary"
Regards
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Iclo on Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:38 am, edited 2 times in total.