Lamborghini and Ferrari Restorations, Workshop Catchup | Tyrrell's Classic Workshop

oh hello there and welcome to another tyrells classic workshop it's been a while since we had a catch-up with some of the jobs that are progressing and i did a video some months ago and just pre-covered uh about um sort of various jobs that we had in and where they were up to and i think it's probably worth going around the loop and seeing where they're up to again now so we've been working on ferraris lamborghinis mainly we'll just concentrate on those see what's going on both mechanically and with some of the metal fabrication work so let's go and have a look what's going on well one of the cars we're focusing on is the lamborghini miura s that changed hands in november 2019 very publicly at auction in london for 1.25 million pounds and we've been instructed to do a ground up restoration on this car but it is very original and we're going to be looking at various aspects of what we've been up to but sometimes the simplest jobs turn out to be some of the most challenging and we start with a door hinge which proved awkward yeah the body's going to go for uh blasting shortly to take all the old paint and crud off it so we're just getting the doors off at the moment the other side's off james has got that off uh this side's proving a bit tricky because the top hinge pin is seized so we're going to just try and get it off now yes we're not going to try are we we're going to see so we're just giving it a little gentle persuasion with some heat on this yes probably hasn't moved for 40 odd years or could be the first time yeah since it was built in 1970 50 years yeah yeah same with me we weren't saying witches which is bad this may take some time it's only a very small blowtorch obviously but if i get a bit of heat into this hinge it'll obviously expand a bit and release its grip on the pin we hope we've got to be careful because obviously this is very visible this area of the door here and you know we can't get a direct whack on the top of the hinge pin no and i don't want to try and hit it off center too much i'll bend it and then you really will yeah a problem yeah you get a better hit on the bottom one if you come up from here yeah a few moments that smokes this sort of grease and oil that's in there burning off the under yeah from years the odd person giving it a bit of an oil over the years not many people do no no i'll give that a little go now see if we can get any joy i'll just collect my ignore me hitting a hammer with a hammer it's raw it shouldn't do that looks like it's moving yeah not much but it has moved but it will need more heat right this is the sort of job that we don't recommend that you do when the customers stood next to the car okay these doors are the last part to come off this car now before obviously it goes to have a shower blaster get ready for welding [Applause] yep [Music] 1969 when this car was being put together little did he know it would probably be 50 years before his hinge pin that he knocked in would next be taken out yeah i would say this is the only one that sees the others hold me quite readily right so what's happening now is the top of the hinge has actually the pinch pin there don't try picking it up extremely very hard um that actually isn't such a bad no it does help us there we go you can hear the tone yeah you can and you can see it's coming down now right if you i'll grab hold of the door well i've still got the other pin to get out and the remainder of this one the door isn't about to fall off can you hold that like that for me yeah sure just so that that is [Laughter] actually that's certainly moving that's uh reverberating nicely through my hand yes broken the bottom of the pen oh no well we'll have to get another pin made which is what we had still on the last one we did and the punch won't go in there anymore it's obviously a bit of an angle what about a narrower punch [Music] oh here's one you made earlier on the move yeah it is slowly moving let me um oh yeah well on the way the pin moving yes oh good yes it is surely it's got to admit defeat at some point in the near future there were door's still as solid as you like yeah the pins just part way through all right now if i just get the bottom one out now we'll be okay [Music] so close that door a little bit more it won't be long is that it that's it yes oh there we go nervous go on the floor with the other one so having actually got the doors off the car uh we're now going to look at the the process of rebuilding the floor and sort of cutting out any rust that was there and welding in new metal for people of a nervous disposition you might want to tune out now because seeing a very valuable italian work of art hacked about with bits of rust in it can be a little bit traumatizing if you're not used to it but rest assured um this is quite normal for a 50 year old italian car restoration so we're going to look at the floors first what james has been up to cutting all that out and then we'll have a look at the after it's gone away for blasting and things started to be new new metal and new sections started to be put on okay so this car is about to go off and be blasted soon but what i wanted to do was remove this floor and expose all of this inside the chassis legs and inside the heat channel so that got the blast treatment as well now what we've found obviously is you know all this lots of rust inside all the sections of chassis and the heat channel as you can see there's loads of it um what i need to do now is this these these strips here are the remnants of the the floor which the rest of it is there on the floor so what i need to do is get all this off this is all welded spot weld it all around the edge um weld it on all the way along so i need to to get all this down to down so this is a very small piece i've exposed the original uh heat channel so i need to get all this off now so that when it gets blasted it comes back all clean and nice there will be obviously rust there still that will have to deal with but it'll be nice all the all these i've cleaned it out now but all this was was just full of uh 50 years worth of rust and corrosion it also had various plates welded on it here this car this for example was there i've cut it off exposed the original bit of floor here and this which i'm guessing i haven't looked inside yet is a plate that someone's welded on the inside here's another patch here that i haven't yet taken off there's another big one here [Applause] that was there just weld it on you can see the edge of it welded there this is uh the original floor here that as you can see is completely rotten so that's what we're doing we're exposing all of this inner sections of chassis so that when it gets um all blasted it comes back nice and clean that's the idea the rest of it further back doesn't look as bad oh maybe right at the back so in theory this is the worst part of the rust um yeah it's a bit of a job but that's what we do well the cars come back the miura the yellow mural body shells come back from the blasters and uh it's looking a whole lot better but we found one or two things as well as the rust we found one or two other things which we'll explain to you now but james has been very busy he's been cutting grinding fabricating welding so let's see what he's been up to you're right james yes i am uh so this is looking fantastic well you've remade all this here yes everything that touches the floor basically all these sections of chassis all these here the scoop are all rusty obviously the lowest point the floor and these sections here it rusts like this where it meets the floor and uh yeah you know all this has been blasted as you can see and come back nice and clean um so these areas that you've sprayed with a protective but conductive paint for welding that's why this is all new this is um fabricated and it was it was pretty well as bad as that side wasn't it yeah well it was all very rustic or all this i mean when we took the floor skin away this skin here when we took this away from all of this it was just completely rotten all full of rust all the inside of the vent there all this was all rotten there was damage also here on on the front of the chassis where it's always got a bit of a bump at some points yeah now um if we just talk about that for a moment because this it looks as though this had had a bit of an impact from underneath yeah imagine this is the front of the cars wheels are here obviously um the under the belly of the front clam shell sits here that's right um and we think it might have hit a rock or something it hit something low down but quite hard and all of this section here was was all crumpled in the radiator mount was bent and in the wrong position this this tube was flattened and bent this infill panel here which is now removed from this side was all damaged the front of this bit of chassis here was all pushed in um so you've refabricated all this yes yes i've taken all this off i've taken the scoop off i've cut the tubes out right and made new yeah and this is all one millimeter steel it is yeah so it's exactly as much chassis who actually made the chassis for but only this is exactly as they would have made it in period yes um i would venture to say it's probably slightly better quality but and it certainly will be more rust proofed yeah i mean they didn't put any rust proof none of this would have been that this this world through primer wouldn't have been there at all just yeah open sections with bare steel right it's looking fantastic he's done a beautiful job this is new yes that's new um and you've built up this corner with new plate as well this is the fresh air depth the heater duct as you call it that's right so this air underneath the car if you imagine this is obviously that way up the air comes in here and flows through these ducts that's right right the way through to the passenger compartment to those vents in the floor there that's right that's that's a very rudimentary ram air ventilation system that's right um but of course the problem is if it is driven in the wet which i don't think this car has been very much but all this gets yeah it's close to bare metal it all gets covered in damp dumbbells yeah and it never can dry out very well it doesn't you know yeah and again inside these chassis sections all very vulnerable moisture condensation forms in there and just rocks from the inside out yeah and we're very fortunate on the miura because this is the only area of the car where you have closed or almost enclosed box sections there's a there's a little bit on the back on the back this is by far the biggest part yeah yeah i mean the sills for example i've got the holes that's right pressed in so they're open to atmosphere they don't rust as much which is very unusual for an italian car because normally they rust just about anywhere and everywhere well from experience with these this is where we find that we have the biggest problem yeah exactly the last one we did was exactly the same yeah how does this fair to the last one it's better is it yes we have to replace the whole floor all of it for seat bases that's right yeah the entire floor all of all of this section across here we replaced all of that on the last one now these floors are really good apart from the very front which i can replace these are all fine the seat bases are fine apart from a bit of damage here and there again the vents i'll probably make a new vent here because that one's damaged but it's not rusty and most likely i will end up taking this apart here because i'm sure there's rust inside these areas yeah and as you can see it's been plated as well plus it's been jacked up and it's dented this of course is where the engine and gearbox is that's right across there the sump of the engine is here yes um this is obviously quite a signifi this is where the majority of weight in the car is actually uh great okay and these these swage marks in the floor here um and we notice again the very very very hand-built nature of this because normally they're parallel like they almost are but look what's been going on yeah they're not parallel at all that was done after a glass or two yeah they don't even end in the same place look no this one comes right to the edge of the floor this one's you know yeah four or five inches shorter but fortunately we've got it we've got the sweat and the necessary sweeping yes we have persuasion tool for making that yeah um great oh well that's fantastic um and james's claim to fame and i'm going to completely put him on the spot now um he's going to hate me for saying this but he's claimed to famous that he once went out with the tory bugatti's granddaughter that's correct yes that's right we've got a star in ours automotive royalty all right thanks very much james thank you well things have moved on a bit now and uh james has completely finished the front end here so this is all new sections welded up fabricated and we know that it's as good on the inside as the outside and that it's better protected than it was when it was new 50 years ago but um this happens with works of art i mean italian cars are absolutely notorious for rusting incredibly badly cars made in the 60s and 70s you could almost hear them fizzing with the metal oxide that was going on the ferrous oxide but um you know this is this is what happens so we can improve on this we can make them obviously they're not used in the wet too much now hopefully they're not used in um sort of salty roads and you know arduous conditions but um nevertheless it's better protected now than it was uh so now we move on to the back where james is uh oh yes you've been doing a bit yeah so this is the these are the rear chassis legs the lower chassis legs of course this is the underneath of the car that's right um they're the engine mounting so the engine sits in here sump is here um they're the engine mountings and this was well this wasn't too brilliant either was as you'd expect when this is not unusual from you no no is it it had been patched up and repaired and you know various sort of bodge welding had gone on um so we're just left with with you know we've got to take it off and and start again we were like that weren't we yes we were on reflection it was absolutely the right decision to do because there were some plates there were a few patches welded on on these air but but but i took those off and i could have repaired them but when we checked it out a bit more there was a little bit thin in a few areas so we decided to uh yeah cut it off found a couple of holes that's right yes which could be made bigger with the aid of yes yes never a good sign no no and so this is the original metal in here which looks remarkably actually having said what we've said that looks very good doesn't it these box sections this is the rear suspension the lower arm pickup points uh on the the sv you've got a wishbone on the lower suspension but on the p400 and the s mirrors got an arm that comes like that and then bisect another suspension arm there um the handling on the sv was better for that reason right um yeah these pickup points are good and strong yes um this is quite a complicated little section here made up isn't it it is you've got a lot going on here obviously all the rear chassis meets the the bulkhead on the floor here all this is all welded to the the floor that we've taken off and are gonna replace um so yes there's quite a lot going on there structurally yeah and as the airflow comes underneath the car and you have a sort of ground effect scoop system thing going on so what what that's just slightly i mean that's we can do something with that because we can repair this that's fine that's just yeah some light damage but there was another one of these have you got it down there yes it is uh-huh there we go you can see they're quite vulnerable lower down on the rest of the car something's come along and gone you just caught it yeah as you can see there's a few scrapes in the floor of the car so this one's been taken off and we're going to make a new one yeah and again that's got that cheeky little suede yeah yeah that's right yes but no it's going to be absolutely great once it's done completely sound we've built in there yes yeah and all this will be protected you know all this we'll paint all this with um a product we use for weld through primer before the this skin goes over the top of it so ross prevention is there where it never was exciting so fantastic yeah thanks very much okay thank you looking at another miura that we've got in the workshop this one here we did a restoration on this car recently over the last few years and the the front hood on the muir the clam shell as it's called was modified by the factory in the 1970s to later sv specification so without the eyelashes in other words it was a more smooth look the svs had but the new owner has decided to convert it back to how it left the factory so what we've had to do is have a whole new front end for the car made in sheet aluminium and then james has had to literally start from scratch and make up some new eyelashes hand fabricate some new eyelashes for it so let's go and have a look at that well uh i can see you've been up to all sorts of mischief james yes no half measures here um i heard the the bacon slicer in action or the slitting disc and uh we've obviously was fitting a new front end on this to make it back into the standard lamborghini um the the neura s as opposed to an sv lookalike and you've actually cut the whole front end off that's right um have you got some pieces you can show us i have i've got some of the this is the parts for the original which is in several pieces now i'm afraid so obviously this would have been that corner yes so that goes that would have gone there like yes yes got the headlight here obviously i've cut a piece away here so yeah um and this is the tank off this is the steel frame underneath that's right um and the uh i mean it's very obvious it's like all these things it's it's almost frail without the whole thing being one unit everything together in one piece gives it a lot more strength yes yeah um okay and you've sliced slice that off and we've got the the whole front end to uh which is new we've had that made made in italy that's right um and that's uh can we put that on and just fit it we can it might take me a moment but it doesn't have to be exact and this is hand formed aluminium over a wooden book exactly as they were made originally obviously it takes a bit of battling together okay well we get the general idea don't we yeah kind of what's stopping it from going on actually it does take a bit of a bit of fitting together exactly the right manipulation yeah and and you've altered the profiles so that it all that's right yes i've had to change the arches and this this profile is exactly right now we've got these vents in the center which can go on there and you've actually i've set this edge here so this new panel just slightly overlaps it and sits flush with the original skin and then we'll weld along this piece here right and all the arches are folded and bonded too yeah and you can't see the joint underneath no no it's all inside this inner wheel arch yeah well that is a uh that's a result it's gone very well yeah yeah very pleased yeah yeah brilliant so we've been busy this is the original uh gold mirror front end that's right and this is uh exhibit b what we've taken off we've taken off it so uh the original headlamps like an sv have got this sort of fed in black dip in the skin of the of the front end but the eyelashes are are missing so what we've actually done is completely or what we i'm using the royal okay what you have done is re we've refashioned the front end we've had a new front-end section made out of sheet aluminium over a wooden buck as it's called as it was done in period but the one thing we haven't got is the eyelashes that's right these are the original eyelashes from a different car which we're replicating here there's one part way through this side is uh done all the headlights had to move all the brackets for the headlights to make those fit but i'm very pleased it's turning out very nicely yeah so the um so you're doing this side and no two can because the cars are so hand built everything is very different absolutely they're not even the same either side you know they're very different um now these these top ones from another car do fit this quite nicely as you can see yeah but the bottom ones they just they're completely different they don't hit them at all straight that one is a better than this one oops yeah you can see oh that's not bad actually but it doesn't it doesn't like fitting in there no no as i say this this one doesn't fit here at all it just doesn't fit it it interferes with the workings of the headlights so it's just a case of making each piece fit where it's got to go which means starting from scratch yeah exactly so this this is built up with a series of of metallic sections yeah which you're doing here you cut and cut each one each individual fin each individual lash um is made and then you've got this sort of sub structure here which um goes in there and allows the headlight to that's right that one at the moment as you see it there is it's oversized you know i haven't i haven't finished it like i have this um yeah when it's all finished and it fits nicely i shall then make this shape on the top which is what i've done on this one here right um yeah so it's just each piece one at a time yeah it's a laborious job but there's no other way they're doing this there's been a few hours on it so far to say the least yeah yeah and this this obviously you have to adjust underneath that's right yes because the aluminium skin is actually wrapped over the steel frame is this yes it is so i mean it forms a pretty pretty solid structure yes and the arches are all folded round so this is gripping the arch all the way around to the bottom um it's riveted on along the bottom here exactly as it was i've used the original holes it's it's it's nice it's yeah that's coming along really well and even these weren't quite right you've had to fettle this that's right i've had to move i've had to completely move the position of the headlights to fit the these new holes yeah that's that's how i make cars isn't it yeah but this is exactly how these were made originally isn't that right yeah that's right no question um i mean that's great what a what a lovely piece of work that is congratulations it's uh yeah they're a little bit sharp and dangerous at the moment i've got to tone that down a little bit you know with all the sharp faces the lamborghinis are sharp and dangerous yes yes that's right yes um so oh that's great really really good yeah um okay thank you very much so you're building up the uh the v12 uh this is the ferrari v12 engine out of the uh the 365 gt4 two plus two the dark blue car and it was in a bit of a sorry this when it came in but we've had these rather lovely pistons made up by our friends in the u.s and seems a shame to put them inside the engine but such as life the original ones on this engine because it's uh more of a lugger by ferrari's standards than a screamer this was redlined at 6500 rpm which is very low for a ferrari engine but it was all about torque and sort of a gt car really rather than a daytona which is all about performance uh it still went well enough but it was a sort of two plus two more for um high speed runs than fast dashes but we have upgraded the pistons these are now forged so in this engine they'll be virtually indestructible really and we put the crank in and the crank was standard spec so we've polished it put a standard set of shells in it and marcus is now having lots of fun building the bottom end up oh yes um it's a very compact bottom end this uh you've got the the liners here the cylinders here crankshaft there it really is a very elegant piece of engineering the cylinder liners literally just push in not like a lamborghini where you have to hit them quite hard to to press them in these just literally push in so very soon we'll be putting um a locking mechanism on these to stop the line is actually coming out the block as the engine's turned as marcus builds it up um and this is the exactly the same bottom end just about as the daytona um as well so it's well within its working capabilities um is it going together all right yeah it's all good yeah up to now yeah absolutely fine yeah uh the trick is to actually because the journals are so close to the bottom of the board because it's such a short stroke engine it's actually quite difficult to fit the pistons in there um obviously we've got to we've got to hold the the other end of the connecting rod to make sure it doesn't touch the journal as we tease it in with the piston ring compressor so that it uh it doesn't mark the crankshaft which is really easy to do but um yeah all good well be running tomorrow obviously oh yeah about five o'clock okay cheers marcus so having built the bottom end up on the engine now we've got the cylinder heads back and these were in a really bad state one of the exhaust valves was so bad it was basically the end was broken off it and it was a really really terrible state and there was loads of play in it so the exhaust valves on these i wouldn't normally reuse unless we knew where they came from and i don't so we've got some new ones these are stainless steel the original ferrari exhaust valves are sodium filled which means the stem is hollow it's a tube with a tiny shot of sodium in it and as the valve opens and closes it bounces along the valve and transfers heat um through the uh the actual from the head away from the head of the valve where the action is in the combustion chamber but these are stainless steel i would guess austenitic stainless steel with the head probably uh coated in sterilite f something like that so this is a new valve and try it in this one where it's a bit more clear the valve is lovely there's negligible play in there now as it should be and here marcus is lapping in the valves to make sure that there's a perfect seal between the valve and the seat this is what people used to have to do all the time when you rebuilt engines in this era nowadays engines are built to such fine tolerances that they don't do this process anymore and you start with the coarse paste are you on the course or the are you on the uh of course yeah aren't you on the shorts or the beer here on the beer all right okay um so yeah a little bit of coarse paste to start with and then um tiny bit of fine to finish off and that's it the valve is perfectly seated uh inside the head and we normally fill the combustion chambers with something very thin like petrol to make sure that there's a seal between the valve and the head so it's getting it's actually going to run on 12 when it goes back together yeah rather than 10. great well one of the cars that was mentioned in one of the earlier videos was this car here and this is a very very interesting card it was the ninth off the line if you could call it a line in the early days but it was the fifth one that was actually sold officially to a customer so this is the fifth ever production lamborghini and it was personally sold by ferruccio to its client mr lamborghini himself we've stripped the car completely it came in as a complete car we've stripped the car down got all the bits of chrome off it which are going to go away and be replated and they're just sewing very slight signs of pitting and we're going to return the car back to its original color which is actually called azuro metallizato so it's a it's a metallic blue and we've actually found what the people who last painted the car dead was rather than stripped the door down which is a huge amount of work they just very carefully masked off the chrome trim and repainted round it not unusual but not the sort of thing you do on a car that's worth a lot of money but it gives us fortunately a great guide to match the original paint too because this paint here is from 1964. so really really interesting piece of history we've got more of it in here so all this paint is going to come off this is the super legera the super light aluminium over steel frame construction there's some areas of corrosion on it we've just consulted with the customer and they've asked us to remove the dashboard as well so pete's in the process of starting to strip that down because there are some imperfections under the material on the dashboard it's going to show it up when it goes back together so that will be done as well well one of the projects that we've just started as this vehicle here which is a lamborghini lm002 it was the four-wheel drive uh lamborghini uh commonly known as the rambo lambo and they were originally conceived as a sort of competitor to the hummer by lamborghini believe it or not many many years ago and it never quite took it was called the cheetah so lamborghini decided to alter the concept instead of having a big american v8 they decided to put a countach engine in it's a v12 as you do so that's what we have here so this is essentially one of the very first true sports suvs and this thing will do about 200 kilometers an hour 125 miles an hour which doesn't sound amazing now but uh it certainly was when it first came out in the late 1980s for a big four by four to have that sort of performance was really really radical and this is about exact almost exactly the same dimensionally as a new land rover defender the new five-door defender just as a matter of curiosity the guy who bought it on brought it on the transporter told me that but what we're doing on this car is it's made up of various different things you've got steel on the roof these are composite fiberglass the doors are steel so we've removed the doors they're away being stripped and unfettled at the moment and we're going to give the whole thing a really good work over all the suspensions going to come off be powder coated blasted exactly as it was when it was new so we'll be charting the progress of this as well well that concludes another tyrells classic workshop video i hope you've enjoyed it if you have please like please subscribe please share and we'll be back soon you

Channel: Tyrrell's Classic Workshop

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Keywords: Iain Tyrrell, Tyrrell's Classic Workshop, Classic Car Expert, Classic Car Restoration, Classic Car Insights, Classic Cars Cheshire, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Miura S, Barn-Find, V12, 350 GT, 365 GT 2+2, LM002, Rambo Lambo, Grand Tourer, Sports SUV, Countach, Engine Restoration

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Length: 39min 36sec (2376 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 26 2020

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His channel is solid and informative for sure. The guy is a genius with these classic exotic masterpieces.

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Sure is different from the average Camaro restoration, where you can basically build one entirely out of catalog parts.

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