Client
Private collector
The brief
Keep the roadster’s chassis and give it a roof that looks like it was always there.
Materials
Hand-shaped steel roof · deep red lacquer · cream leather · chrome wire wheels
(02) — The build
Umbra
Umbra began as a roadster with a damaged windscreen frame.
A roof drawn once
We sketched the roof forty times before cutting the first panel.
The paint took six weeks: twelve coats of red, flatted by hand between each.
“It looks black in the garage and red in the sun. I never tire of that.”
The owner of No. 06