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Paul Baker Custom Metalwork Ltd, Unit 30 Swifts Farm, Hensting Lane, Eastleigh (2026)

13/08/2021

Aaron busy tap tapping away on the Alfa Sprint front panel. The repair panel he handmade on the English wheel and TIG welded it in before finishing it off.

10/06/2021

Panel be**er that can prep and paint.

16/01/2021

Time to reflect.

16/01/2021

Bright coloured 70’s classics

28/12/2020

A nice change to see something other than BMW E9 CSL’s in for mechanical work, nothing major needed on this lovely little Austin 8 just a brake service, inspection, a grease up and few tweaks.
Such a small car that it only just fitted on our ramps.

Rich loved working on something different for a change.

28/12/2020

It’s been a long time since I have updated our work pages so the few days off over the Christmas holidays means I’ve got some time free to catch up.

During the restoration of the last Jensen Interceptor I promised myself that it would be the last one I restored, mainly due to the replacement panel quality and fit. The original Jensen press tools they still use have deteriorated so much that the new panels have lost all the shape and definition and means it would be almost as quick to make the panels from scratch. This made it very hard to justify the price of panels as they then needed slicing and masses of rework to fit properly, all costing the customer more money which troubled me.
However another Interceptor was already booked on our waiting list and I didn’t want to let the customer down so here we are again.

The car arrived looking good, well at first glance, but unfortunately any expert could see it was hiding some issues. The problem is that until a car gets bare metalled it doesn’t reveal much and once the paint and filler is removed it’s too late to go back without substantial costs or bodging which I refuse to do for anyone.

Initially the car came in for obvious paint bubbles in the common rust areas, typically needing repairs to all the lower sections and arches. This can be undertaken without a full strip down but as things progressed the remit has changed and it’s now a full mechanical strip and restoration of parts, engine strip and overhaul and blasting of the body shell and panels.
Prior to blasting we cut out lots of the rust areas that need replacing but leave enough to keep the car structure strong and provide some factory datum points to work to.
The car was collected from blasting just before Christmas and was immediately sprayed with an epoxy primer to throughly protect it, welding work will commence in January.

Mechanical work by Rich
Rust removal and metalwork by Mark
Stripping paint by Harry - aka Dave Potter

28/12/2020

We have been working intermittently between jobs to produce perfect replica parts for E9’s to enable us to restore cars as well as we possibly can. One part that was often a struggle is the boot lid (trunk) on a CSL. As the cars are nearly 50 years old now many have had some sort of incident over their life, it may simply be damage caused by hands and the force of shutting it closed, rear accident damage, closing onto something that is too big for the boot or items dropped onto the boot but many have cosmetic damage that needs filler as it can’t be dressed out and outer skins were unavailable so couldn’t simply be swapped over.
Many people don’t realise that Aluminium actually deteriorates naturally over time so loses its properties no matter how careful you are with it.

For these reasons we started to look at producing boot lids for our own restorations but they have proved more time consuming than we hoped so they are not quite ready yet, outer skins are good to go and will be a big help so I may sell them if required for someones restoration project. Hopefully complete bootlids will be ready soon.

Glens experience of hand making very expensive cars from scratch has been a huge benefit to us in this process.

28/12/2020

It’s been a long time since I have updated our work pages so the few days off over the Christmas holidays means I’ve got some time free to catch up.
The pandemic has meant that the world has changed and work has been very different this year but at least we are lucky enough to have space to socially distance and with the workshop doors open we have plenty of ventilation.

Back in October another E9 was in for some repairs to all 3 sill sections on the NS and OS after someone had totally destroyed them during their very poor attempts at welding. Apparently they were expericed restorers 😂😱🤭🤔🤥 enough said!
They had failed to brace the car sufficiently when badly patching the chassis rails, A post bottoms, inner sills and floors and that meant they lost the door gaps. We managed to cut and jack the car back into position and then replaced both door bottoms, door skins, all sill sections, repaired the A and B pillars, replaced front wings with good used panels (the very valuable front wings/fenders were welded so badly they are beyond salvage) and replaced the bottom wing areas but the other cosmetic areas like the rear arches and rear panel were left to be fixed by the owner.

** I must state again in case someone spots some poor workmanship in the photos, we only welded the areas as detailed above and anything necessary to make the car structurally safe again along with achieving the door gaps so any other welding wasn’t by us or anyone we know .................

Welding and alignment (and head scratching) by Mark.
Some latter photos show the car with spoilers etc as some extra items were trial fitted.

28/12/2020

It’s been a long time since I have updated our work pages so the few days off over the Christmas holidays means I’ve got some time free to catch up.
The pandemic has meant that the world has changed and work has been very different this year but at least we are lucky enough to have space to socially distance and with the workshop doors open we have plenty of ventilation.

The 1969 Porsche 911 RSR style restomod is progressing well again now, we did have to take a break from the work to do some other jobs as well as the lockdown.

It’s amazing when looking back through the photos of just how much work has been completed, even though we are doing the work it’s so easy to forget what has been repaired or replaced so pictures really help to show progress and can also aid when/if selling the vehicle. This is a very small selection of all the detailed images we have.

Work is being undertaken by Glen.

27/12/2020

It’s been a long time since I have updated our work pages so the few days off over the Christmas holidays means I’ve got some time free to catch up.
The pandemic has meant that the world has changed and work has been very different this year but at least we are lucky enough to have space to socially distance and with the workshop doors open we have plenty of ventilation.

Aston Martin Virage that needed the outer sills and floor sections replacing. As we often see, the job grew once we cut away some Aluminium outer panels to reveal the extent of the rust in the hidden steel sections.
In the end we made inner and outer sills, floor pans, rear valance, A pillar bottoms, B pillar sections, inner wings, battery tray and repaired the aluminium outer skin sections. We thoroughly painted the inside before re-welding the outer skins back on. We also had the interior woodwork re-veneered whilst it was removed.

Welding work by Mark.

25/09/2020

A pair of E9 CSL’s during their restorations

27/08/2020

Welding on the OS inner chassis rail on the 911. I captured Glen busy in action Sarah Whetren.

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