Although I did this a while ago, I thought I'd post it up as it's a wee bit quiet on the forum at present

It's an ancient Pocher kit of the Fiat F2 race car.
I acquired it long, long ago as a total broken wreck. A good few parts were missing and some parts literally in a dozed pieces. To make it worse, it had been consigned to an open cardboard box in a garden shed for around 10 years.

I decided that if the old girl was going to survive it would have to be total dismantling project with all the parts washed, labelled and put into boxes/bags so I would know where bits were upon an eventual rebuild.

I downloaded the build manual from a Pocher website and made a start taking it all to pieces...

Looks like an episode of Car SOS. Looking forward to see what restoration you can give the old girl.

Mark

Many thanks for looking in chaps, and the comments.

The first bit of 'reconstruction' involved cleaning up the engine parts, removing huge globs of ancient glue - it almost seemed like Evo-Stik.

The separate parts were scrubbed, dried, cleaned up and finally repainted. I also started adding the multitude of missing oil pipes and other small details. The two silver bands over the magneto were also scratched from paper clips as they are missing from the actual kit.

On we go...

Off to a great start mate

Some more on the old Fiat.

The radiator was just a solid lump of plastic so I cut the centre out and made it from wire mesh. I made a stencil of the 'F-2' in masking tape, applied it to the mesh and then painted it matt black. I was quite pleased how it turned out.

Next, I turned to some of the gearbox parts which were cleaned up, repainted and reassembled.
The front beam axle was actually broken it two so I drilled the broken ends and glued a brass rod in place, then epoxied it all back together.

The fuel tank was cleaned up and repainted next.

Then came the floor. A total broken mess of brown plastic parts. I decided to replace it all with real wood.

On we go...

Coming on nicely Roy, the wooden flooring is going to look so much better than the old plastic part.

Mark

Luv the old style engines with all the brass pipes and stuff. Amazing engineering for the time.

Looking forward to the next update.


Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Simply beautiful Roy, love the idea of the wooden flooring... we'll get you working with wood yet..... .. If you give that wood a couple of coats of Danish Oil it will really make the grain pop..... Just a thought.....

Regards

Alan

As before everyone - Many thanks for looking in and the very kind comments.

The dash/scuttle was wood-trimmed next and then the frames were assembled along with fitting the fuel tank. Next to go in was the engine and radiator.
The scuttle and floor were then added.
All going quite well so far.

Thanks Mark. Much appreciated.

Next - cleaning up, repairing splits in the plastic and then painting the seats and seat supports. All pretty straightforward.
The gearbox etc was then added underneath, and some of the fuel pipes cleaned up, polished and then fitted.

One of the leaf springs had a moulded plastic section completely snapped off and missing.
I pressed the remaining part into a block of Plasticine and cast a new piece in resin. Once fitted, it was fitted to the axle along with its partner after they were all bound with cord as per the real car...