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Sam Ihns
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Full Car Rebuild

Starting the summer preceding my senior year of high school, I set out on the incredibly long and difficult project of building my own car - a 1974 MGB GT that I had purchased in boxes off of Ebay. The project would take me hundreds of man hours and would teach me tons about mechanical systems, hands-on tools, and intense project research. However, I think the end result was worth it :)

 

before

This is the car before I bought it - it had been completely disassembled twenty years prior and left to sit. Time and rust had not been very nice to the frame

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A collection of images throughout the restoration process. The steps I followed were: welding/bodywork, repainting and topcoating, engine rebuild and repair, engine/transmission placement, electrical placement, interior renovation.


Final product rear view

Final product rear view

Final product front view (in the middle of Hurricane Matthew)

Final product front view (in the middle of Hurricane Matthew)

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