68 P1800S up for sale

[aapersoons]

Hello everyone,

Since this is my first post on this forum I'll start by introducing myself.
My name is Axel and I'm from belgium.
I've always been a keen car enthousiast (british cars especially), the first major restoration I did was a 65 jaguar E-type coupe, which took me about 4 years to complete, after which I found a restoration project of a car I've had a soft spot for for a very long time, a 68 P1800S.

I bought the car from an ad in Dallas, Texas and had it shipped over here.
The previous owner wanted to restore it but never got any further than having the engine rebuilt, and buying a parts car to aid with the restoration.
When I got the car, I was amazed to find that there were a ton of extra parts packed in the interior and the boot, two full sets of instruments an two titles being just one of many nice surprises.

I completely dismantled the car to the last bolt and had it sandblasted and epoxy'd straight after blasting.
To my surprise there was not ANY rust to be found on the bodyshell.
The only damage to the body was at the mouth/grille area, where presumably it must have had a little impact from touching another car whilst parking, and a small ding at the Rh side just behind the headlight.

I repaired the damage at the grille damage by hammering out the little deformation there was, buying a new front grille surround and lead loaded the area slightly to make the new grille a perfect fit (I have pictures of the process to prove).
The ding behind the headlamp was repaired in the same way, also with pictures to prove.

The underside of the car was completely covered with a very thick (to 8mm in some places ) asphalt based body shutz, since the blasting didn't effect it, I spent a full week on to getting it of manually with a heat gun and about 3 gallons of white spirit to get the last traces off.

After that all the seams on the car were sealed with seam sealer and the car received two full coats of Spies-Hecker 2K red/brown for further corrosion prevention.

The doors are fitted with the seals and latches in place to check and adjust the fittings, the drivers side door is almost fully adjusted to have panel gaps that are equal all along (with a 0,2mm tolerance, I like to mad on those kind of things).

The front suspension is fully restored with all new bushings, rubbers, shock absorbers and painted in the correct colours.
The rear suspension is also restored, however front and rear brakes still have to be rebuilt.

Instruments, apart from the water dual/temperature gauge have been restored and look gorgeous.

The car is currently mounted on a rotisserie to aid in doing the bodywork.

I've done a cylinder leak down test and the engine appears to be well rebuilt indeed.

I'm selling the car because I recently had an accident with my E-type and the repairs have taken away my P1800 budget.

I'm asking 8500€ for the car, which is a lot less than it has cost me.
It might seem expensive for a project car, but if you calculate the cost of doing the bodywork to this standard on a rusty 5-6 thousand car, it's an absolute bargain.
Pictures will follow soon.

Kind regards,
Axel Persoons

[aapersoons]

After checking the parts stock I found that I only rebuilt the rev counter.
There are two of each instrument however, one set with cracked plexi and good reusable chrome and one with perfect plexi and bad chrome, so you could make one perfect set out of them, as I did with the rev counter.

Pictures of front suspension and rear axle to follow.

You can contact me by PM, or at axel.persoons@moss4.be , by phone: +32 477 17 75 31

Kind regards,
Axel Persoons