Nice interior shot of your ancient barn.

Will you be coating the surfaces of your rebuilt trans? If I recall the factory used cosmoline to protect the case

Thanks a lot!



Good point. I was not planing to do anything because I did not thought about it but I am open to any suggestion on that point! Thanks!

Bests

Antoine

Forget the car . . . I want to know the story of the workspace. Old school European cool!

Exactly, my car shop (1835) is kinda cool but nothing like Antoine's place. Please show more interior/exterior shots and share any known history. It the walls could talk ....

Ahah, my barn..yes, my little place of heaven

I prefer to avoid exterior pictures on the web (from outside it is not special,just looks like an old barn built using stones) but for the story, what I know is that it was first built in 1560. A small "earthquake" partially destroyed it in 1714, but it was then rebuilt in 1719. And since then staying there unchanged it's supposed to be over some rest of a roman village, and is a "protected" (so can't be removed/destroyed/changed) building due to its special wooden structure and history.
I am the caretaker of it since 6 years after falling in love with it during the first visit. Yes it's cold in winter, not the most practical, but the feeling of these old stones is

Here some inside pictures, we made a wooden floor to get it level for the lift:




A bit of decoration:


And my metal shaping corner:




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Antoine

What a privilege to work in such a space. Just awesome and deserving of your metal skills!
Way to go Antoine.

Thanks! I still have a lot of ideas how I could better amenage the barn, making it even nicer yet functional but somehow I only work in the barn instead of on the barn..maybe one day when my cars will require less work (might never happen )

And to come back to cars..
New gearbox in with cleaning/painting/rebuilding of the parts around and new clutch+clutch cable:


And after a short test drive.. it's officially back on the roads :


I even took it to a car meeting on sunday :


Happy me

Bests

Antoine