American Bantam body restoration

[Ian Williams]

Am I alone in thinking that this is not quite as impressive as some comments might suggest. This is hot rod building american style, take a steel saloon, chop off the top build a steel box section frame to hold the remains together and mig weld the back of the roof onto the tail. Loads of TV shows doing this in the US and they usually have a V8 inserted, there is a certain amount of skill involved I agree, but in no way can be considered restoration, far too much of the structure is vandalised and lost in the process. To my eye it is an uncomfortable marriage of parts and looks very wrong at the back.