You know how taking up ceramics or yoga can be therapeutic after a long, hard day’s work? This can be applied to a slew of hobbies and activities. And some folks do that with more long-term projects, like car restorations.
Just think about it: you’re alone, for hours on end, pulling apart a car that was never supposed to touch asphalt ever again only to put it back together with new and refurbished parts. And then you drive it off into the horizon… hopefully, not into the nearest light pole because you accidentally connected the brake pedal to the accelerator.
#1 Before & After
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#2 A Little Before And After. Paid $1000 For A ’72 Ghia That Had Been Sitting In Yard 5 Years Under A Tree. High-Speed Wool Pad And Polishing/Cutting Compound
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#3 1958 MGA Before And After
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#4 I Found A Rusty Morgunovka (SeAZ S-3A From 1960) In My Neighbor’s Garage, Installed A CVT And Made A “Candy” Out Of It
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#5 This 1970 Chevelle Went Through A Full Restoration Process To Get Its Glory Back
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#6 My First DIY Post, But I Restored A 1969 Mustang In High School And I’m Very Proud Of How She Turned Out
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#7 A Friend’s Aunt Gifted Me Her Deceased Father’s Car. “If You Think You Can Get It Running, You Can Have It”
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#8 The Original Car My Grandpa Purchased At 16 Years Old: A ’31 Chevy 5-Window Coupe That Was Restored By Him And My Dad
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#9 Nysa 522, Photos Shows The Restoration Of A Polish Car
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#10 Here’s My Father And His Before And After Pics Of His ‘65 Bus Restoration Project. He’s Very Proud Of It And He Spent 4x Of My College Degree To Make It What It Is Today
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#11 1969 Karmann Ghia Before And After – Restored And Converted To Electric
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#12 Before, During, And After The 6-Year Restoration And Customization Of My 1967 Beetle
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#13 1971 Dodge Charger Before And After
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#14 Just Over Two Years Ago I Started My First Major Project, A Non-Running 1967 Triumph TR4A. Here’s A Before And After
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#15 My ’64 Falcon Build Before And After
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#16 Restored My Dad’s Old ’70 Camaro
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#17 I Can’t Draw But I Consider This My Art. Restored A Classic Stingray In My Garage
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#18 Arkady Babich’s Homemade Convertible “Leningrad” Has Been Restored
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#19 Sometimes It’s Easy To Forget How Much Work You’ve Done
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#20 Completed Restoration Of My Dream Car
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#21 Rare 1967 Mustang GT500 Got A Second Chance At Life. And Women Say We Don’t Cry Enough
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#22 Before And After Of My Dad’s 2-Year Smokey And The Bandit Inspired Trans Am Project
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#23 Challenger Restored
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#24 Before And After Of A Project I’m Very Proud To Officially Consider Completed
One year ago I found a 1969 auto squareback in the weeds and bought it for $800. This afternoon I finished the final tweaks and it’s officially road-ready. Cheers!
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#25 Before And After From A Few Years Ago. I Work In My Family’s Glass, Interior, Sunroof, And Convertible Workshop
We also rent a building across the street that houses a body shop and an auto repair shop. Our customer bought the car like this because he thought he could fix it for cheap. It fell off a car carrier. After we finished it over a year later. My brother had to make the back seat from scratch out of pipe foam. He went off a picture of the seat and went from there. One of our trimmers made the covers. Pretty much a VW seat.
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#26 1963 VW Dune Buggy Restoration Before And After
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#27 Restoration Camaro Z28 ’73
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#28 Before And After. I Spent 2 Years And Too Much Money On Her
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#29 The Red Wheels With The White Walls Make The Look Of This Truck, Awesome
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#30 Before And After
The original color is Crocus yellow. It’s on the back seat panel, which you can see through the rear window. The car was built for the GM show car account and is the first Impala convertible built in 1965. SS package 327 with powerglide, power windows, tilt, and rear seat speakers.
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#31 A Before And After Of My Father’s ’79 Vette That We Restored/Modified During One Indiana Winter
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#32 Before & After
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#33 1967 RS/SS Camaro Home-Built Restoration
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#34 1968 Ford Mustang Restoration, My First Car
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#35 Got This Out Of A Hay Field. It’s Been Sitting For A Long Time
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#36 My Brother Finished His Bird After A Few Years. Pretty Awesome
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#37 The Before And After Of Mine And My Wife’s Project Car. 2015-2018
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#38 Some Before And After Pics Of My ’68 Merc Cougar I’ve Been Working On For A Couple Years Now
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#39 280Z Before And After. It Was A Lot Of Hard Work, But She’s Beautiful
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#40 Before And After. My First Car I Bought 3 Years Ago For $700
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#41 I Restored A 1977 VW Bus For Under $1,000
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#42 It’s Art And Requires Just Enough Passion
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#43 Before And After Photos Of An E12 I Had To Refurbish In The Workshop Last Weekend For Our Exhibition
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#44 My (Wife’s) 1970 Fiat 500 L Before And After Restoration
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#45 Before And After. Still A Work In Progress. Next are Coilovers, GTI Wheels, And Bumpers
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#46 After 3 Years Of Work, I’m Calling This Project Done
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#47 A 5-Year Project, And All The Work Was Done By Me And My Father-In-Law
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#48 At The Ripe Age Of 22, I’ve Completely Restored A 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit. What An Experience
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#49 I Don’t Know If I Have Posted A Before And After Pic Yet. Top Is Before, In Case You’re Wondering
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#50 My Very First Build. I Got The Car For The First Time When I Was 15
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