Precision Restorations of St. Louis, Missouri have performed a unique ‘ restoration’ on a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado. The car was actually completed last year, but oddly this is the first time we’ve heard of it. It took over a year to turn what was a reasonably intact but dilapidated Toronado into the bizarre mix of old and new you’re looking at.
The driver’s side has been thoroughly restored, taking it right down to the bare metal, before filling, sanding and repainting. On the other side, the car has been left just as it was was when it rolled out of the factory 44 years ago.
The interior has had the same biased love poured into it. With the drivers side being brought up to showroom condition, and at the same time given a healthy dose of bright blue paint and new upholstery. While the passenger seat looks like someones run a lawnmower over it. One thing’s for sure. Shotgun isn’t the second best seat in this car.
Both the trunk and engine bay continue the theme, with the engine looking particularly odd in its half-restored form. Although hopefully if any mechanical work was done they were equally kind to both sides!
Source: Precision Restoration via Serious Wheels
just plain silly.
Some cars do benefit from looking like they have parked in a humid barn some 50 years ago and then been forgotten but the Toronado surely does not. Whatever the owner is trying to achieve here it is an half assed attempt at it, literally.
The engine is painted half as well, what a serious guy who build this car.