Sunday, 29 December 2019

Resto of the Ford Sierra XR4i

Although on the baseplate of this model car a "Made in England" text can be read, it is beyond the Lesney era. In spite of that I like it, this is a farily good production, still better, than of those made in Macau. I could pick it up for a song at a flea market, I was happy to get a Sierra to restore! Luckily the parts were alright, so I started to restore it.


I gave it a nice bronze colour, I was not fond of the original.


I painted the detailes, and it got number plates, too.





A bigger Volkswagen in the sixties - The Type 3

And this is my most favourite car - THE CAR - the Volkswagen 1600TL! I got this model, when I was six; since then I love this car! So it was obvious, that I want to restore a VW Type 3, too, it was a must!



What I got at a flea market it was a SuperFast version with wide wheels. The windscreen had to be changed, because it was broken, but the wheels were in fairly good condition, so they stayed. And the three spotlights were missing from the bumper, so I shuffled away their traces. The car got a light metallic green colour instead of the original pink (which I really disliked).






And I made a custom G-type box for it!




A Luxury Sportcar from the '60s - The Ferrari Berlinetta

When I was a child, I didn't have this car - only wanted to. When my restoration hobby started two years ago, I decided to get this Ferrari and restore!
This car was produced by Lesney with several weels - I preferred the SuperFast, nevertheless it is not so easy to find this MB-75 Ferrari Berlinetta to restore. Either I find one in very good condition, which needs no resto, or I find one in a very poor condition, which needs at least 2 plus donors (for wheels and window)!


And yes! What I found the last year, its windscreen was broken, I had to buy for it another window unit. 


I changed the wheels, too, because they weren"t so good and these new ones seemed to me better, more sporty!