Another extraordinary shop tour

Last week, I was lucky enough to be a part of the Lime Rock Open Shop Night at Automotive Restorations. Kent Bain was generous enough to open his doors and let us look around for a few hours. It was filled with amazing cars and they do incredible work. They also share space with The Panel Shop, and you may have seen the photos that I posted of their aluminum Corvette here:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/corvette-wrap-your-ass-inwait-whataluminum-get-the-berk-outta-here/105178/page1/

Here's a look at some of the other stuff that Kent had in the shop, in no particular order:

Turner:

Tiny Bugatti:

Ford SEMA(?) Concept Vehicle:

Another Turner:

I don't like gold cars, but I loved this Ferrari 330:

Ferrari Lusso:

Check out those wheels and tires!

I fell in love with this Ferrari 330:

There were Ferrari grills everywhere:

Bugatti, with auxiliary fuel tank:

Alpine A110:

512BBi (parked under a Mercedes 300SL roadster):

AC:

Volvo 544:

Alfa:

BMW:

Lotus Cortina:

Beach:

Royale:

Chevron:

Lancia:

1959 Ferrari 410 Supeamerica Pinin Farina Coupé:

Cisitalia:

Nash Healey:

Alfa:

AC Ace:

I never noticed this detail on the ACs before:

Siata with Fiat 8V "Otto Vu":

Project cars and fixer-uppers:

This is actually the second original Cunningham body buck that I've seen in the past six months. The guys from The Panel Shop are building a C-4RK.

Stanguellini:

Rolls Royce Silver Phantom-Phantom Coupe(formerly a sedan, becoming a coupe):

Dino:

Undercover Ferrari:

And in case you missed my other thread, here are a few photos of the aluminum Corvette:

Good god.

That Volvo looks out of place in his collection and he needs to sell it to me now.

mazdeuce wrote: Good god.

I concur!

Holy wowsers - have never seen an Alpine rally car...

If only they could get their hands on some interesting cars.

There was even a Beer Bus:

Lotus Cortina for the win. An Alfa Romeo that isn't red?

What was the mid-engine open top blue car you listed as a BMW?

My god I want to live there. Also the number of plugs on the bugatti is ridiculous.

dyintorace wrote: What was the mid-engine open top blue car you listed as a BMW?

I'm not exactly sure. It was some kind of sportsracer. At least two sections of bodywork were removed.

Amazing stuff there.

Well E36 M3 i must be a real collector my garage has one of these in it.

I have that exact same thing right there in my garage.

I only buy the best S-L-X Denatured Alcohol. I'm in rare company.

Slumming thru the low rent neighborhoods? Wear protection..

Someone once said that you can't explain the difference between art and pornography, but i know it when I see it.

I am unsure of what I just looked at there.

Like the silver jaguar in the background of one of those photos.

I like the Ferrari Boxer more every time I see it.

What is the tiny little red coupe?

In reply to petegossett:

That was the Siata. I guess I only got photos of the engine and brakes.

I bet this guy could even make a Bi-turbo run.

Wow, awesome stuff there.

Very cool. Are the Turners rare? A local British car guy has a Mk III for sale for $22k.

Even the cheapest car there caught my eye. The Sunshine yellow MGB in one of the first shots. I love all of the old race cars too. Very nice stuff.