“I decided if I’m going to do it once, then I’m going to do it right and I stripped it myself in my garage. I’ve never done anything like this before.”
There are a couple of things you should know before we get into the nuts and bolts of this restoration. Firstly, this was David’s first car restoration and, as he admits, likely the only one, as this Ford is a keeper. Secondly, David, an electrician by trade, assembled the car himself, completing the task in around 12 months. David has driven this Ford regularly for the past 26 years. It’s not been strictly a daily driver but it was used regularly.
Back in 2018, David fronted up with the big Ford for a fateful warrant of fitness test, as he recalls.
“I bought it in ’98. I found it in Auto Trader, so I have had it for 26 years. Over the 19 or 20 years before the restoration began I made the car reliable and drove it around, but at the last warrant I got in 2018 the guy said to me, ‘too much rust in it now, so you are going to have to do something about it’.”
A decision
