My shop is holding our annual open house this afternoon. Just got done setting up for it.
Italians are well represented today
1960 Alfa Guilia sprint 1600 body by Bertone and a 1962 Lancia Appia GTE body by Zagato
1965 Zink sports racer
1956 Lancia Flaminia Superleggera body by Touring
1959 Fiat Abarth 750 body by Zagato
1952 Siata Daina body by Stabilimenti Farina
1964 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1
1972 DeTomaso Pantera and a 58 Fiat 1200 TV Trasformible
1962 Ferrari 250GTE body by Pininfarina
1959 Fiat Abarth 750 body by Allemano and the 1959 MGA Coupe vintage racer I am building
And the dirty dailys of the guys who build these things
I will snap some parking lot pics when the cool cars start rolling in.
Killer looking Falcon 4door. Love it! Wish I could be there.
I was too busy being a host to get parking lot shots. A few model A's, Morris minors, lots of mgb's, some Jag's and a hurst olds 442 were the highlights.
It was nice to get feedback on my work, which was overwhelmingly positive.
It is also interesting to see the different types of car people. British car types tended to be indifferent to anything not British. They would walk past the Italian stuff, remark about the correctness or lack of on certain cars and then leave. A vintage American iron restorer of some note came in with kind of a bad attitude to see how them furrin' cars are restored and left wide eyed after taking lots of notes and getting contact info from us. I might actually fab some Buick quarter panels for him soon.
I doubt we gained much in he way of future business but it was fun!
Very cool--and thanks for sharing. Our local Porsche shops have been doing some regular open houses, and I think they're getting some business out of it. I know one shop has since gotten money out of me. (The other would if I had a water-cooled car.)
Nice Eye-talian stuff. They're getting quite rare. I had a Tiger, but not as nice as that one.
