Toby’s Eleanor Now With Grills!

Some good progress this week on Toby’s Project with the front end coming together quite nicely. John spent most of last weekend (Read more…)

[Road Trip] Visiting Eleanor, Bullit Mustang Replica and The Paint Booth

As some of you may know my car and Toby’s car are both being restored in a neighbouring state, over 10 hours by car away in the country. So as you would expect it’s not too often that I get to go down and visit John and see what kind of things he has on the boil. But last week I took advantage of a public holiday long weekend in Australia to go down and pay a visit and see what cars John had in his stable. (Read more…)

Toby’s Paint Update: Paint And Stripes Laid Down

Great progress this week for Toby’s car with the some nice confirmation pictures that show the paint laid down along with the main stripes and side stripes.

Last we heard was the car was prepped and ready for paint. But a few weeks (Read more…)

Toby’s Eleanor March Update – Partial Paint

Sorry it’s been a while between updates, I’ve been working on some site updates which have included an upgrade to the backend and a great new look for the site which you will see in the next few days!

Anyway Toby has just returned from the states where he met up with (Read more…)

Toby’s Paint Progress And My Car January Update

Well the last I mentioned about Toby’s car was that it was just about ready for the paint booth. Now after a brief Christmas and New Years break Toby’s 1968 Eleanor is even closer to completion. (Read more…)

Building Eleanor – A November Update

As I previously reported Toby’s car was going in for paint and my car was just about to head to the converters. Well I’ve just received a small update from John, my builder, as to what’s happening. Details after the jump. (Read more…)

Toby’s Eleanor Nearing Completion – In The Paint Booth

While my old girl is patiently awaiting the next big step in the restoration Toby’s project is slowly nearing completion. The latest news coming this week that Toby’s car has had all its body work completed and is now in the paint booth. We don’t know exactly how long the paint process will take as the painters working on (Read more…)

Toby’s Eleanor Project – Getting Closer To Paint

It’s been a long time since I posted about the project of my friend, Toby. His Eleanor has been the ‘other woman’ in the equation and whilst my car rests up in the shed Toby’s car is undergoing a faster restoration, mainly due to Toby’s tighter deadlines. (Read more…)

Cursed Cars, A Severed Hand And A Lot Of Patience

Apologies for the lack of updates, It’s been very quiet over here in Australia with a very cold winter work has slowed down. Unfortunately last week we had an accident in the shop. While working on my friend Toby’s Eleanor project one of the body guys almost severed his hand. I’m not too sure how it happened as I can’t get to the shop but work was halted for a while. Now while he recovers we are one man down. (Read more…)