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Restaurateur de tableau de bord – Menuiserie Mercedes Pullman – Limousine 6 portes

LE BlogBy Simon Lorkin10th June 2020

Restaurateur de tableau de bord – Mercedes Pullman Woodwork – W100 – Limousine 6 portes Un projet particulier de placage pour une voiture très exceptionnelle – 60 pièces pour une limousine allongée.   Ce projet est le plus important que j’ai eu jusqu’à présent. On me demande souvent de restaurer des ensembles de boiseries pour…

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Dashboard Restorer – Mercedes Pullman Woodwork – 6 door Limousine

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin10th June 2020

Dashboard Restorer – Mercedes Pullman Woodwork – W100 – 6 door Limousine A special re-veneering project for a very special car – 60 pieces for a stretched limousine.   This project is the largest I’ve had so far. I’m often asked to restore sets of woodwork for Bentleys Jaguars, Rolls Royces and Mercedes but this…

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Facel Vega – Restaurateur de tableau de bord – Effet bois peint à la main

LE BlogBy Simon Lorkin8th June 2020

Facel Vega – Restaurateur de tableaux de bord – Effet bois peint à la main sur métal. Restauration par maître artisan Simon Lorkin – Normandie – France. Simon Lorkin propose ses services de restauration en tant que restaurateur du tableau de bord Facel Vega depuis 2011. Il s’agit d’une voiture avec un effet bois unique…

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Facel Vega Dashboard Restoration – A Facel 3 project

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin4th June 2020

Facel Vega Dashboard Restoration – The end of a Facel 3 project. Simon Lorkin, hand painting the unique Facel Vega wood effect.   What a pleasure! It is not often that I see the dashboards back in their cars after I’ve restored them but this week I had the pleasure of seeing photos of this…

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Bentley Woodwork Veneering Project – Restoring the dashboard and wooden trim for an S3

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin24th March 2020

Classic Car Restoration – Bentley Woodwork Veneering Project. Veneering a Bentley S3 dashboard and wooden trim. Here’s a woodwork veneering project that I’m midway through. It’s for a beautiful Bentley S3 and it was in need of re-veneering. Here are a few photos of me in action. The veneering is carried out before the removal…

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Burr Walnut Veneer stock for classic car dashboard restoration

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin28th October 2019

Burr Walnut Veneer stock for classic car dashboard restoration Behind the scenes with Simon Lorkin | Classic Dashboards   I thought you might be curious about the veneer stock that I use for classic car dashboard and woodwork restoration. I have a regular supply that I keep stocked up for individual dashboard projects. When it’s…

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New Classic Dashboards Video

MY Blog, Simon LorkinBy Simon Lorkin12th April 2018

New Classic Dashboards Video Discover a little about Simon Lorkin’s restoration work. I’m proud to share my new short video that shows a little about what I do and how I came to be a restorer of dashboards and interior trim for classic cars.   Classic Dashboards – Simon Lorkin from Simon Lorkin on Vimeo.…

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Retromobile Paris – Classic Dashboards visits the famous classic car show

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin18th February 2018

Retromobile Paris Classic Dashboards visiting the wonderful Classic Car show at the Paris Expo. Since 2008 we’ve done various local and regional classic car shows at Caen and Rouen, with our stand. As the business is growing we decided it was again time to visit the highly respected and enormous classic car show that is…

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Simon Lorkin – Living France article

MY BlogBy Simon Lorkin1st February 2018

Simon Lorkin – Classic Dashboards Living France article. Master of Art – The British furniture restorer carving out a niche in Manche – Normandy – France.   Here it is, my new press article featured in Living France magazine about my journey from being an antique restorer in Surrey, England to becoming a classic car…

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AC Aceca Dashboard and wood trim restoration

MY Blog, Simon LorkinBy Simon Lorkin29th October 2017

AC Aceca Dashboard and wood trim restoration Burr walnut re-veneering on rounded and concave woodwork – Classic car Restoration     Veneering the AC Aceca dashboard Depending on the client’s ideas and requirements, when re-veneering the main AC Aceca dashboard I book-match the veneer. For those that don’t know the expression this means taking two…

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