• Welcome to Dino Restoration

    Welcome to Dino Restoration

Bicycling in the morning then back to work. While I was riding I stopped at Torrey Pines beach where a 32′ grey whale had washed ashore, hit by a cargo ship. I noticed my last pictures weren’t that sharp. I got a new Mac and so now I have to use a new photo editing program, photoshop elements. Hopefully todays photos will be more clear. I worked on TAV 110 today which includes bumpers, grill, badges and a few other odds and ins. If anybody has a source for the black rings that fit over the bumper posts let me know. As far as colors the grey one is now out as there was another Dino at Bella Italia just restored by Symbolic Motors, done in that color. It is also a local car. It did look fantastic though.

 

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I cleaned the shop today and put the 73 GT on the lift. #4946 started out in it’s Dino life as a yellow, chairs and flares USA model coupe. Only 5 Flares and Chairs coupes were made for the USA. It originally sold June 2, 1973 at Hollywood Sports Cars to Thomas Brockmiller of Rolling Hills, Ca. The original price was $16,999.90 including tax and license. I bought it a couple of years ago where it was living in Las Vegas. I started taking a few parts off today with really no set plan on taking it apart. Pretty much on what I feel like doing for the day. Today I concentrated on TAV 106, plus tires off and battery out. If anybody needs specific pictures of anything, let me know. The journey begins.

 

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Jon Gunderson, Jeff Gunderson Best Dino Award

After 2 years our hard work paid off!!

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Jon Gunderson and Jeff Gunderson finishing their amazing Dino project

After 2 long years my son Jeff and myself with no previous car experience totally took apart and restored every part on this car better than new. It was an amazing journey as we learned so much and a lot of it the hard way. It is sort of sad finishing as we had a great time celebrating our small victories everyday and learning from our mistakes. Today Jeff got the honors of the first drive. The most amazing part was that it actually started and almost everything worked. Jeff first drove around our building all seemed good so we branched out to around the block and then a couple of miles. A few things to sort out and we will be ready for our first show at Bella Italia. I would highly recommend spending time with your teenage son doing something productive together.

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Finishing Dino 246, Dino restoration

We wrapped up basically everything and hope to have the first drive tomorrow!

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The last of the parts are being installed and the first drive is not far off!

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Installing Dino 246 Engine, Dino Restoration, Jon Gunderson
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