Dutton Kit Cars and their owners

Q443 BCH

After 7 years 10 months Q443 BCH has had a full nuts and bolts restoration and is now ready for MOT

My original goal was to keep the Series 2 Phaeton looking as it was intended ...... but with a few refinements along the way! Goal Accomplished

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Permalink Reply by Dave Price on February 22, 2016 at 12:09

Looks very very nice. Well done

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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on February 22, 2016 at 12:16

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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on February 22, 2016 at 13:55

Including the original purchase price of £1150.00 the cost to date is just shy of 5K. That is taking everything at cost, including raw materials. If you start to put prices on all the things that I have made for the car along the way, it would be considerably more.

I paid over the odds for the car in the first place, as I wanted the S2 and this one ticked all the boxes at the time.

And worth every penny in terms of a rewarding project, I now have exactly what I wanted ..... exactly the way I wanted it....... priceless.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Kerswell on February 22, 2016 at 16:40

Throw some labour hours at it Paul, go on scare yourself :-))

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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on February 22, 2016 at 17:01

I wish I had kept a note of the labour hours for interest purposes. I couldn't start to work out the amount of time spent on it now ..... it would be pick a figure out of thin air and double it!!

The one thing that this project has highlighted for me, is just how cleaver the people are who's job it was to design a car from scratch on paper and then know everything would fit together. There were many times I had to re make something because I hadn't taken something else into account. Must be a lot easier now with modern design software.