Welcome to Deluxe MetalWork.
This blog is a showcase of my Restoration Work on Classic Cars. I Specialise in Old Volkswagens and have a number of restorations, magazine features and show winners to my name. Having worked on car modifications and restorations since leaving school, I'm now concentrating my efforts on my favourite bit, the Body Preparations - which is typically the part most hate.
Body shells and panels are easily patched and filled, which on the surface can give the overal look of a restoration, but will usually leave owners spending more cash soon after on further repairs. In my opinion a vechicles body is 60% of it's value, the majority of it's structural strength and therefore should be the core of any decent restoration worth it's money.
The nature of Deluxe MetalWork is to retain the vehicles authenticity to manufacturers specification. To achieve this, we use where necessary New Old Stock panels (How Hard To Find?), second-hand rust-free panels imported from dry-climates or we fabricate our own repair panels for vehicles being restored by us. We use original panels as our patterns to achieve an exact standard that our clients have become accustomed to.
The photos below show our attention to detail in making a corner panel the correct spec for the model year. It was a new old stock panel for a different year originally and simply needed a few alterations as shown.
I'm currently working on a customer's 1966 21 Window Samba (RHD!!). It was something of a basket case to begin with, but during the past few months I have removed all traces of rust, multi-med-blasted and it's now at the stage of acid-dipping prior to painting. The customer is a quality engineer and has high expectations of what this classic should be. It was my intention to blog this long ago but it's been a busy time. Pictures of what this bus has been through to arrive at this stage in it's restoration have been collected along the way and will be on here soon... stay posted and watch this VW Samba Shine!! 
Ready for multi mead blasting.
All metal work completed ready for acid dipping and e coating.
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