Build sheet 00 — Journal
Journal
Notes from the workshops on panels, paint, leather, engines and the occasional argument with a supplier. A new note most months.
Notes
06
Topics
05
Latest
Sep 2026
(02) — All notes
Materials
4 min
Twelve coats, then wait
Solid lacquer ages better than anything we can buy off the shelf, if you give it time between coats.
Engineering
7 min
Wiring a 1960s car for the next sixty years
Why every restomod we deliver gets a new loom, and why you will never see it.
Builds
5 min
Keeping the original engine
Most clients ask for more power. Most of them leave with the engine they started with, rebuilt properly.
Builds
3 min
Collecting No. 05 in the rain
Monsoon was built for wet roads. Its owner got exactly the weather he asked for on handover day.
Process
4 min
The roads we test on
Every car does 500 km on the same three roads before it leaves. A note on why we never change them.
(03) — What we write about
Process
How a car moves from sketch to first drive.
Materials
Leather, carbon, aluminium, wood and how they age.
Engineering
Chassis, brakes, wiring and the numbers behind them.
Builds
Stories from cars we have delivered.
Interiors
Seats, switches, stitching and the things you touch.
A full-size clay of every car we have built, and every one of them started an argument worth having.
(04) — The quarterly letter