As the winter has been in full swing and my race car has had a blown engine, I needed to get my gear head fix. So a friend kindly invited me to the perfect place for my addiction, a classic car shop.
At the outer fringes of Romania's capital, Bucharest, lies a place of hidden treasures, a shop that restores classic cars form the ground up.
What really stood out of the crowd of invaluable European iron was this '68 or '69 302 Mustang. It might be a more common occurrence on the other side of the pond, but here in Europe they are extremely rare.
This is actually the first one I've seen up close and it's gorgeous.
The 302 cui (5 liter) engine is assorted with Edelborck heads, intake and carburetor, MSD ignition and yes an AC compressor... I bet this thing rumbles beautifully!
Right in front of the dusty Mustang are some studded winter tires for the Monte Carlo classic car rally.
My friend is helping getting ready a pair of rally Ford Escorts for the rally. It takes place a week later than the WRC event and they even run some of the same stages.
This is what 175 WHP looks like, from a carburated 2 liter single cam engine.
The shops bread an butter is restoring classic Porches and Jaguars, here we see a mint, if a bit dusty, Jaguar Mark 2.
And a stripped Jaguar E-Type with it's 4.2 lither straight six.
Curvy... Like a beautiful woman...
Here's a 356 Porsche getting ready for the MOT check.
Random chrome laying around.
The most amazing think about this workshop is that rusty old cars and sheet metal goes in and shiny new cars get out
A rear quarter panel for a Porsche takes almost two whole months to make from scratch, and then it gets carefully filled not with filler, but with lead.
The Covasna Winter Rally is soon to come so here's a 911 rally car as a reminder. Next I'll cover the work I've done to prepare the BMW for the rally. Stay tuned!
