{"id":2304,"date":"2012-01-21T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:23:20","slug":"fully-synchronized-e-type-shell-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/01\/fully-synchronized-e-type-shell-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Synchronized E-Type Shell Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a 3.8 roadster with some GREAT history, and some TERRIBLE carnage performed on the trans and driveshaft tunnel in order to install a 4.2 synchro trans in the 1980’s. As usual, this butchery was performed by a “british car shop”… This car is still owned by its ORIGINAL OWNER, who FLIPPED OUT when he saw this after it was originally done, and it has bothered him ever since! When I mentioned that I could erase this damage after seeing the car at a small show this past Spring, he was all for it, and now the car is being treated to a new Interior as well.<\/p>\n

The owner of this car was in the army and driving an XK140 when the E-Type debuted in 1961. He immediately said to himself, “I have got to get one of those!” – and despite not really being able to afford, bought one anyway, and has hung onto it and enjoyed it ever since. He even took the car with him to South Africa for a while, where the seats were recovered in the thickest leather I have ever seen – they’re pretty cool!<\/p>\n

Follow along as we erase the carnage, and return this very solid shell back to it’s factory configuration.<\/p>\n