When a car comes in for restoration we open a diary for it. Every Friday someone walks round it with a camera and writes three or four lines about what changed that week.
At first it is a way to keep owners close to a project that can take a year or more. But the diary does something more useful later: it proves what was done.
Proof outlasts paint
A beautiful finish can hide anything. Photographs of new metal going in, of the seam sealer, of the cavity wax, are what tell the next owner the car was done properly.
A restoration without photographs is just a story.
When we hand a car back, the diary is printed and bound. It goes in the history file next to the invoices.
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