Perhaps the most ambitious and far-reaching Retropower project to date, Project Connery sees us charged with ‘restomodifying’ one of the undoubted unsung heroes of the British GT breed, the Jensen CV8. Doomed to forever live in the immense shadow cast by its younger sibling, the Interceptor, the CV8 was nevertheless...
Just some positive feedback from the great man on his newly completed, recently returned, internet-famous Mk1 Escort. Nuff said. “A masterpiece of functionality and classic understatement… The car is more than I’d ever hoped for” Gordon Murray, Jan 2020 ...
Just some positive feedback from the great man on his newly completed, recently returned, internet-famous Mk1 Escort. Nuff said. "A masterpiece of functionality and classic understatement...
What attracted me to Retropower in the first place was the quality of their work, evidenced through lots of social media coverage that gave me comfort there was nothing to hide. The quality of the work became clear from an early stage and remained consistent throughout, no matter whether the...
The RS is part of our family. Being born 9 months after the RS was delivered new to my father, I have never known life without this car in it. After a brief, but hard, rallying career which ended in the mid-80’s after 15,000 miles, the car was stored for...
The first instalment of a new series following Alasdair Stables and his Retropower built Chevette HSR as they compete in the Motorsport News Circuit Championship. First up, an eventful visit to Cadwell Park Motorsport, as the old adage goes, is a risky business, and while the threat to life and limb...
Project Utah demonstrates the Ethos behind a Restomod almost as well as any project you could care to imagine. Utterly classic in appearance, yet hiding modern technology under the skin and bristling with subtle bespoke touches almost everywhere you look. The below video series documents the build from start to...
This car was imported from its native United States by its current owner, our client, though the deal was done on the understanding that the car had recently been treated to a complete, ground-up restoration, a claim supported by the images sent over at the time. Fast forward some months...
There aren't as many performance motoring publications as well read and well respected as Evo, a magazine that's been nothing short of a sales sensation since its launch 21 years ago. You can probably imagine the sense of anticipation coursing through Retropower when Evo announced its intention to pay us...
The Millington Diamond serves as a litmus test for the British and Irish club motorsport scene. To put it bluntly, if you’ve never spent a wet Sunday stood in a Welsh forest or windswept airfield circuit denoted by an increasingly ragged assortment of cones, there’s every chance that the name...
What's cooler than a Mk1 Cortina from the year England won the World Cup? An incredibly low, 'South London look' Mk1 Cortina from the year England won the World Cup, that's what. If this sounds like your cup of tea, then read on. The genesis of this build can actually be...
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a full 4 months since we began work on Project Utah, our plan to turn the already lovely Mk2 Jaguar into something altogether sleeker, slipperier and unique. You can read more about the aero-focussed concept underpinning Project Utah here and here, but...
"Getting the car back was like having a new one delivered, except it's better than new. Retropower was great; nothing was too much bother, though I think they tore out a lot of hair!" ...
It's easy to see why our W116 restoration is overlooked by all but the most ardent of Merc-ophiles, but that doesn't mean it's not worth a closer look, not least as it easily counts as one of the most demanding rebuilds we've yet undertaken - these are not simple cars!...
We’re firm believers in the ability of wheels to either make or break a project car, something which applies to automotive builds of all types, scales and budgets. The correct set of carefully selected wheels can either be the cherry atop a long time, all-or-nothing project…or can effectively be the...
It's hard to deny that Goodwood is an incredibly special location for those of us whose hearts beat that much faster when surrounded by old school cars. In fact, you don't even need to have been to the likes of the Festival of Speed or the Revival to know -...
The excellent 'Car & Classic' website has been a feature of Retropower life for some time now, largely as it's all but impossible for us to go a week without browsing its expansive classified section for a would-be project or tantalisingly out of reach dream car. It's compelling stuff, so...
Motorsport Magazine isn't so much a car magazine as a publishing institution; it has been going since 1924 and remains among the most respected and influential of all such publications. It was therefore something of an honour to learn that Retropower had been selected for inclusion within the magazine's 'Master...
We’d bet the farm that very, very few of you reading this now ever whiled away your childhoods dreaming of the day when you might be able to own a Nissan Sunny ZX Coupe. You might have thought them striking, granted, but, and with the best will in the world,...
