Elliot Watkins Classic Car Restoration

28/03/2026

Close to finishing a pair of LJ Torana door skins. Been fun hammering out the handle aperture recess.

22/03/2026

Another day, another Project.

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17/10/2025

Penrite oil motor show. Were here all day if you want to come down and say hi.

21/06/2025

Part 9 of our video series hammering our a door handle recess in a new door skim.

Hand skills and basic tools hammer forming and stretching out a door handle recess on our new Ford Capri door skin.

20/05/2025

Part 7 of our door skin tutorial...

03/05/2025

Part 6 of our video series making up a door skin is live on youtube.

Part 6 of our video series making a door skin from scratch. Aplogies for the quality of the video, the first half was filmed weeks ago and then life got in ...

23/02/2025

Part 5 on the door skin fabrication video series....

Part 5 in our video series of fabricating a new door skin for a classic car. This part of the series shows some basic folding techniques and an introduction...

16/02/2025

The next little video update working on the Capri door skin is on youtube for anyone interested. Also has a quick workshop update at the end.

How to remove an old door skin walkthrough on a Ford capri Mk3 door. At the end of the video there a walk around the workshop with a bit of an update on wha...

09/02/2025

3rd part of our video series making up a door skin.. just a short one this week....

25/01/2025

Ive started a short series of videos showing a start to finish step by step process of making a new door skin. Just uploaded video number 1.

First of a series of videos showing step by step how we make a door skin at our workshop, featuring a door skin from a Mk3 Ford Capri here but many of the de...

11/01/2025

Shop update.

Wishing everyone a happy new year and introducing the 2 newest members to our workshop, a HK Monaro and a LJ Torana in for some metalwork