This is Project One, a restomod creation based upon everyone’s favourite blue oval saloon, the first-generation Ford Escort. It’s a car we a Retropower have a long and storied association with, and one we suspect most of those reading this (at least those of a certain vintage) will also have...
We build cars for customers, single-minded petrolheads with a love for old school machines with custom touches and one-off engineering. It's what we've been doing for the best part of a decade and what gets us up in the morning, but it can sometimes have a useful (and certainly appreciated...
One of the things which helps Retropower builds stand apart from others is a keen eye for detail, and while this often manifests itself in lashings of custom work and one-off engineering, it's also present in our willingness to foreground exquisite examples of standard, factory fitted equipment. Case in point,...
"I approached Retropower because of their honest, knowledgeable and friendly approach to building cars, which proved invaluable when I subsequently commissioned them to restore my Fiesta RS Turbo. Their understanding of what I desired was amazing, and they were even able to suggest some discreet upgrades to the car which have subsequently...
Old Italian cars rot, which might just be the least surprising sentence ever committed to the internet. You know it, we know it, anyone who's ever considered classic car ownership for any length of time knows it, and yet we were all taken aback by just how crusty our latest...
A classic muscle car restomod project, Project Stravaig came to Retropower under somewhat controversial circumstances a little over three years ago. It’s UK-based owner had purchased the car from its native United States some months beforehand and had proceeded to have it shipped across the Atlantic, safe in the knowledge...
What do you do if you've commissioned the construction of a custom Mercedes Benz from the 1960s? Well, if you're the owner of Project Kaiser 1, our W108-based monster, you commission another, hence Project Kaiser II. Kaiser II is based on the W111, the coupe version. This means that we'll be...
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noted that we've actually already undertaken an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint restoration, a build that lead directly to the one shown here. Currently in the middle of an extensive fabrication phase, this Giulietta might well be one of the most challenging projects we've yet...
