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.

Written in the workshop

Our paint shop lays twelve coats on every body and flats each one by hand.

Patience is the finish

Each coat cures for two days before the next. Rushing it shows up a year later as a dull patch on the bonnet.

(02) — More from the journal

Three more notes

Process

Why we still build in clay

Materials

Twelve coats, then wait

Engineering

Wiring a 1960s car for the next sixty years

Have a car in mind? Let’s draw it together.

Commission a build

Coventry workshop

Unit 4, Canal Basin Works, Coventry CV1 4LY

+44 24 7655 0140

Modena workshop

Via Emilia Est 1120, 41122 Modena

+39 059 860 2210

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Build sheet 00 · Made in Coventry and Modena

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