{"id":3203,"date":"2012-06-05T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:15:48","slug":"another-series-1-lower-valance-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/06\/another-series-1-lower-valance-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Series 1 lower valance restored."},"content":{"rendered":"

We do ALOT of these, and have it down to a real science.<\/p>\n

This is the one for the ’63 coupe currently in the rotisserie.\u00a0 The car came in with two bonnets – neither of which was original to the car.\u00a0 There was a red 3.8 bonnet that was on the car, that was originally white instead of the car’s original color of British Racing Green (actually Opalescent Dark Green, which I personally think is a BAD choice for BRG – I do not believe BRG should be metallic…).\u00a0 The other bonnet was a gold 3.8 bonnet that the customer had purchased at a locak junkyard along with two gold doors and a gold hatch.<\/p>\n

The red bonnet was really bad, and in every case the pieces of the gold bonnet were better (although not by much…), but strangely, the one piece that was better on the red bonnet was the lower valance.\u00a0 Here it is being restored and fitted with one of our new support members.<\/p>\n