It’s been 4 months since I received the Dino at the shop. Yesterday I loaded it on the trailer for a 45 minute drive to Color House of Texas for paint and body. I knew TJ the owner of Color House of Texas when I had my shop in Escondido, California. TJ worked up the street at Best of Show and recently relocated to Texas and opened his own paint shop. His work is top quality and the Dino will be painted with Glasurit in its original Rosso Dino color. I expect to get it back in about 3 months when I’ll be ready for reassembly. Most of the parts and interior are done. I’m setting up an area for my upholstery guy who will come out when I’m ready to sew and install the carpeting, headliner etc. The carpet, headliner and dask material came from Henk at HVL in the Netherlands. The motor is dissembled and in progress.

I’ve been busy rebuilding parts as the metal work continues. Paint shop in about 4 weeks or so.

Lots of metal work on this car but making progress. Working on upholstery pieces and starting to rebuild various parts.

Replacing the rot. Looks like we are going to need to re skin the doors to address the rust situation. Oval tubing was delivered today from the UK. Replacing the center tube

We started on the metal work today. As you can see this car started out as a Euro body and the euro lights were cut out and was modified at the factory to incorporate the new indicator lights.

I got the car back from media blast today. More rot was exposed!! Normally I get the car epoxy coated after blasting, but this car has so much metal work we decided to do the metal work then it can go back to media blast for a second time. You can see how the factory did the front indicator lights with lots of lead. Tuesday we start the metal work, I’m thinking a months worth of work..
Dino -Pininfarina production

The car left today for media blast. Will be gone for a week, then we start on all the metal work.

Every part gets restored!!