Retro Restoration

Retro Restoration Vintage vehicle restoration & preservation Award winning full or part restorations. From a concourse restoration to a full custom build.

We offer high quality work at realistic prices. Modern and traditional metalworking tools and techniques. A combination of mig, tig and spot welding machines, and traditional metalworking hand tools to create high standard factory style repairs. Fully equipped body shop with low bake spray booth. From show standard paintwork to localised repairs. We pride ourselves on doing a great job at a competitive price working closely with our customers through the restoration process. You are welcome visit our workshop in Dunston, Staffordshire to view our work but please call to make sure we are available.

Few pictures of the repairs so far on the front end of Gwyns 61. Gwyn wants all the factory details replicating so we ma...
17/09/2026

Few pictures of the repairs so far on the front end of Gwyns 61. Gwyn wants all the factory details replicating so we made a repair panel for each side and made a quick tool to put the square pressings in, then fitted the original captive nuts into the pressings. The upper captive nut is different to all the others, not sure why but that’s how it left the factory.

We have a new front valance and spare wheel panel on order so will get the front end finished off next week 👍

Got the underside of Colins bus protected with Bilt-Hamber Laboratories Dynax UC and all the cavities with S50 👌
14/09/2026

Got the underside of Colins bus protected with Bilt-Hamber Laboratories Dynax UC and all the cavities with S50 👌

Few repairs on the chassis for my Manx buggy project. Framehead bottom plate to repair next then time to cut a few inche...
12/09/2026

Few repairs on the chassis for my Manx buggy project. Framehead bottom plate to repair next then time to cut a few inches out the middle. Looking forward to driving around with my lad in this 😎

Part time temporary position - Looking for someone to help us with metalwork or a prep work, ideally self employed. Must...
08/09/2026

Part time temporary position - Looking for someone to help us with metalwork or a prep work, ideally self employed. Must have experience restoring classic cars to a high standard. Based in Staffordshire by junction 13 of the M6. Drop us a message if your interested.

Early oval unrestored survivor for sale. £20k.Matching numbers Swedish oval built Feb 1955. Original pans and channels l...
02/09/2026

Early oval unrestored survivor for sale. £20k.

Matching numbers Swedish oval built Feb 1955. Original pans and channels look like new under the carpets / mats. Original engine has all correct 55 parts, no end float. Never been apart or modified. Fully recomissioned keeping as many original parts as possible. Recent clutch, NOS muffler etc. Drives amazing.

Located Stafford, UK.

Nose repaired on Nicks 56 bonnet.
02/09/2026

Nose repaired on Nicks 56 bonnet.

21/08/2026

All the repairs on Nicks UK 1956 body are pretty much finished now, shown here in bare metal 👌 Really pleased with this.

Once finished we will get a coat of epoxy over all the repairs to match the rest of the car.

The bonnet and chassis still need a bit of work before the metalwork is 100% finished. Once it is we will crack on with Gwyns 61, Charlie's 58 and Martins 53 until we are ready to start the prep and paint process.

Have a great weekend 👍

Almost finished the metalwork on Nicks UK 56 oval beetle and really pleased with how it's looking. A lot of work has gon...
20/08/2026

Almost finished the metalwork on Nicks UK 56 oval beetle and really pleased with how it's looking. A lot of work has gone into this car. Recently we have:

Got the rear valance welded on after spending a bit of time getting it sitting perfectly with the top quality Dirk Hortig rear wings that Nick sourced. They are really nice but still needed a little work to fit perfectly but we were really happy with how it all looked when mocked up so got the valance welded in and finished to look as factory at possible.

The rear valance didn't fit particularly well and needed quite a lot of work. The inner section didn't line up with the side trays at all, foiled the inner quarters and the seal channel swooped down at either end so the engine bay seal would never fit properly. We removed the inner section, reshaped it and welded it back in making sure it lined up with the side trays properly.

Seal strips spot welded in, replicating how they were from the factory with the valance strip spot extending past the valance onto the rear quarter held with one spot weld. The tabs that hold the engine bay tar boards in place were broken other than one, so we made new ones and welded those in.

Got the drivers side rear body mount outer panels removed, tub repaired and the original outer section was repaired before refitting.

Passenger rear tub repaired where the front edge meets the crossmember. Welded to the crossmember on the inside of the car with two big tacks as factory with the luggage tray spot welded to the tub and crossmembers so everything under the rear seat is 100% correct.

Both of the original heater channel outlets were fitted to the Klassic Fab channels and heater tubes welded to the rear crossmembers, as close to factory as possible.

Rear crossmembers were slightly later panels which we modified to have pretty much all the correct details. Only a couple of pressings slightly different to original.

The inner front bulkhead is fitted but still have to repair the outer section and bonnet, plus a couple of areas to tidy up then should be pretty much finished ready for prep and paint 👍

Don't think I've missed anything 😂 Pleased with how it's looking now.

4" beam fitted to Darren C Bradley Aussie 74 between resto work. Such a cool bus - amazingly solid and original undernea...
08/08/2026

4" beam fitted to Darren C Bradley Aussie 74 between resto work. Such a cool bus - amazingly solid and original underneath and now sitting with a bit more attitude 😎

Few photos of the rear crossmember and rear quarter repairs on Gwyns 61.We drilled out the spot welds on the rear crossm...
07/08/2026

Few photos of the rear crossmember and rear quarter repairs on Gwyns 61.

We drilled out the spot welds on the rear crossmember to seperate the inner wave outer panels as we approached it as two seperate repairs so we could keep as much of the original metal as possible. The inner repair was fairly straightforward but the outer section needed the stud moving to the correct position so the rear quarter repairs fitted as factory.

The Klassic Fab rear quarter panel also needed a fair bit of work before we could fit. The body line for the wing mount was quite nice but the return to the channel was too deep which would have made the panel sit way too high so that was reshaped before fitting.

The front of the panel was nothing like the original so that was cut up and modified ready to fit but I didn't manage to finish it today unfortunately but still a pretty good end to the week 👍

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Unit 15 Dunston Farm
Stafford
ST189AB

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