CoachBuilt Prams

Perfect Elegance

  Wilson La Dauphin

What a rust bucket!

I think I must have been a little bit mad when I bought this through Ebay!!    There is nothing but restoration to be done to this pram.    The wheels were so badly rusted that I had them powder-coated along with the chassis.    I have chosen brilliant white paintwork and I am hoping to use a burgundy coloured fabric for the hood and apron.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The body has now come back from being sprayed, I wasn't brave enough to tackle that, it needed etching primer and goodness knows what else,   but the next one that comes along I hope to be able to do myself!      Various pieces of chrome work have had to go away to be rechromed too.

 

                                 The wheels look a bit  better don't they?  

I began to put the chrome strips along the side of the La Dauphin but the longer pieces in the middle of the body are  pitted and so I have decided to have them re-chromed.   I can't put poor chrome pieces onto a lovely resprayed body can I?  I have to get it as good as I possibly can.









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