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Over the last eight years or so, we have become increasingly involved with the restoration of classic Ferrari’s, most of them have been very rare cars, and some have been outrageously valuable.

Like so many of our projects, these cars have demanded a lot of attention to detail whilst undergoing restoration, sometimes your only reliable information can be forty or fifty year old photographs, this is particularly the case when a car has lost all or part of its original body.

When we receive a car that is whole, but just corroded or damaged, we endeavor to retain as many of the original parts as possible, only remanufacturing new panels where absolutely necessary.

The above-pictured Barchetta received a full body off restoration, free from its body panels, the chassis was sandblasted, repaired and re-painted with considerable ease, then the body panels were cleaned and repaired, fitting new panels only where absolutely necessary, and refitted to the body frame, after which, a number of the inner panels were renewed, mostly because of previous poor repairs, and riveted in position, using the same methods as when originally fitted.

The end result was a very straight and original body shell, with probably only 20% new panels actually fitted, that will now last for many years to come.

When we first received this Monza it was apparent that underneath its glossy paintwork something very nasty lurked, it very soon became clear that almost every body panel was covered in an extremely thick layer of body filler, up to 12mm thick in places. After we had removed that body from the chassis, we sent all the panels to be dipped to remove all the old paint and filler, upon their return, we soon realised why it had been subject to so much body filler, except for a few odd panels, such as the bonnet, the aluminium was in an extremely poor condition, partly because of corrosion, but mostly from poor quality body repairs.

Using the old panels as some form of guide, we set about fabricating a complete new front and rear end assembly, along with doors and some inner panels, all fitted to the body frame Ferrari style, which involves the use of many solid rivets.

Two different views of a rare Ferrari 225 S

This 225 S has recently undergone a major body rebuild, having had its original body altered over the years. Due to the fact that the car had considerable racing history during the early 1950’s, the present owner decided that it should be rebuilt to its original specification, this was a long and painstaking task, requiring the careful inspection of quite a number of period photographs.

225 S at Monaco (1952)

The 225's, now painted, awaits its mechanical rebuild in readiness for the return trip to Monaco 2000.

These cars can be prone to quite serious corrosion problems, particularly the inner sills and inner panels at the rear end. The car above had these areas renewed, along with new outer sill panels, front lower panel, all bottom sections of the front and rear wings, and new door skins.

A rare and desirable 250 LM, these photographs show the beautiful shape of the body design, this car received a very sympathetic body restoration with many of the original panels being reused, after they had been removed from their frames, cleaned and repaired, then finally refitted.

250 LM after receiving its full racing colours

A rare and very desirable GTO having undergone a front end rebuild.