Category Archives: E-Type – Bonnet Restoration

Our blog entries showing the complete restoration of E-Type bonnets – start to finish. See how they are broken down here, stripped, blasted, rust damaged repaired, crash damage repaired and reshaped, primed, assembled, and glued.

Going for broke!

Posted on June 13, 2012 by admin

The ’63 coupe came in with 2 complete bonnets, 2 pairs of doors, and two rear hatches. The owner was able to find the extra bonnet and doors inside of a box truck in a junkyard near their home, along … Continue reading →

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Restoring a pair of Series 1 E-Type Inner Valances

Posted on June 5, 2012 by admin

Next, we blasted the inner valances and gave them some much needed TLC. One unfortunate feature of these, as well as the rest of this bonnet, was extremely heavy surface rust on the inner surface – mostly inside the wheel … Continue reading →

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Another Series 1 lower valance restored.

Posted on June 5, 2012 by admin

We do ALOT of these, and have it down to a real science. This is the one for the ’63 coupe currently in the rotisserie.  The car came in with two bonnets – neither of which was original to the … Continue reading →

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Finishing up the Louisiana Series 1 Bonnet

Posted on May 19, 2012 by admin

I should just put “I’m sorry for being so behind on the blog” at the top of every blog posting… The Louisiana bonnet was finished up a few weeks ago and is sitting happily up on the shelf, waiting to … Continue reading →

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E-Type Series 1 Lower Valance Restoration

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

This is the lower valance from the Louisiana Bonnet.  NO RUST on this baby – not ONE SPEC!  The whole support member and caged hinge plate assembly is absolutely beautiful – inside and out – on most of these that … Continue reading →

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An excellent pair of Series 1 wings – made perfect

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

Late last year, a customer brought in a bonnet to be restored for his ’66 coupe, and when he started unloading it, the pieces looked like they were brand new!  All pieces had been plastic media blasted, and then sprayed … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 7 – Shipping

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

This bonnet was destined to be shipped across country, so we packed her up and took her down to the local freight depot – after quite a comical series of mis-communications from MULTIPLE freight companies! If you haven’t tried to … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 6 – Assembly

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

All pieces have either been restored or fabricated now, and we’re ready for assembly – finally!

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 5 – Lower Valance

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

I usually put the center section off until last, because it is usually the piece that needs the most work.  That way, once I finally do finish it, everything else is ready to go and assembly can move forward. On … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 4 – Inner Panels

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

All E-Type bonnets are comprised of: 4 large outer panels – center section, wings, and lower valance 2 large inner panels – RH and LH inner valances (sometimes called air tubes…) 5 smaller inner panels – RH and LH rear … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 3 – Wings

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

Next it was time to restore a pair of wings for this bonnet.  These wings are a matched pair that we picked up last Fall.  They have some issues, but overall, are straight, and the difficult to repair V-12 wheel … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 2 – Inner Valances

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

The next step for this build was to restore some early-style V-12 inner valances. We actually purchased these plus a rusty center section from a Series 3 V-12 bonnet that was incorrectly mounted onto a Series 2 car 20 year … Continue reading →

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Series 3 E-Type Bonnet Restoration – Part 1 – Center Section

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

We were recently contracted by a customer to build a good original bonnet for his 1972 Series 3 V-12.  He had no bonnet for this car at all, and was not having any luck finding a new bonnet from the … Continue reading →

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Your typical eBay Bonnet…

Posted on April 22, 2012 by admin

She’s an evil temptress – the eBay bonnet…  There she is on eBay, up for grabs to the highest bidder, with a low starting point, GREAT looking photros, and a description that promises that this is the nicest E-Type bonnet … Continue reading →

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Series 2 Bonnet Restoration

Posted on February 2, 2012 by admin

The Series 3 bonnet that the building caved in on actually came in on the same truck as this project – a wrecked Series 2 bonnet.  Someone had attempted to repair this bonnet with a new fender, but threw in … Continue reading →

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