May I ask how you were able to "preserve" that old-school beauty? To be honest, I have not seen a well preserved/restored Rekord yet.
Though first-owners of our Rekord, it just sat in our covered garage for several years. Decided to kick some life back into it around 2000 or 2001 thereabouts. Never having done anything like this before, what I though would be a little repair-work snowballed into a major production- 99% of the restoration (replacing hydrovac and what seemed like a million other parts, paintwork, etc) took a year.
Since then it's been finding little bits in keeping with the original look of the Rekord.... with hopefully the last major replacement being the new Weber carb.
Restoration for this car (as with most old-school, classic or vintage vehicles) is definnitely a labor of love coupled with its share of blood, sweat & tears (and spiced up with some profanity at times
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Though not perfect, I think my 'ol gal can stilll turn a few heads.
Until just recently, she's been a sleeping beauty (last I looked, think mileage was only about about 40k or so).
Haven't seen any well preserved/restored Rekords yet?
You may not have to wait much longer. Our Club is fortunate to have members like JC & his dad who have several old-school beauties (one of which is a Rekord Coupe).
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