Historic racing car restored ahead of Motorama (9/10/24)

Neville and Derek Quin have restored their 1955 Ford Customline ahead of this year's Motorama show. Video by Aaron Smith (9/10/24)

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00:0058 years ago I bought it, and my racing suit is 58 years old and my helmet I had to get in 1970 and

00:10kids used to use it in their go karts and all that and that's what's knocked about but it still fits.

00:17We got the car back and everything's all still original, all the chassis and everything,

00:23the engine and everything's like that. The gearbox diff is all original and

00:29the body we just had to redo and put plates in and that sort of thing and

00:36it's come up better than when it was raced new.

00:39Yeah when we got it back there was a lot of rust, it sat outside for 50 years

00:43which wasn't very pretty, so yeah I bought a lot of parts, a couple of other cars,

00:50we've had to cut up this, but most of the car is still the original car.

00:54Father's 80 now and yeah it's good to get it going, he'll have a drive of it at Motorama hopefully and

01:03yeah it's good, yeah it's nice to have it.