'76 Arena, before & after

[jawsum]

I posted a pic of this Raleigh Arena I found in a hedge a while ago. The general opinion on here was to dump it back in that hedge. But no, sod you all I thought, i'm gonna restore this old girl to her former glory.

And so after spending a few hours with a can of Nitromors and a roll of steel wool and a Black & Decker Mouse she was stripped naked. Now I understood the saying "you can't polish a turd"

I put her back together with a few new bits and gave the bare steel frame a once over with some autosol and i'm rather happy with her.

She's never going to win BOTM but i'm glad I rescued her.

 

[jawsum]

after

 

[jawsum]

after

 

[Spokesmann]

Looking better, no chance of getting the decals and graphics then?

 

[jawsum]

not yet, i did enquire with gil_m but he was busy till november

 

[ninety]

Looks well worth the effort - good job!

 

[mavesyn]

Good on you...............
Cycling would be dead boring, if we all rode Colnago's...
Nice job, by the way.

 

[DA-EVO]

Resto Effort of the Month for sure

 

[fingers]

Is it coated at all to stop the steel corroding?

Great work tho, good skills & patience!!

 

[jawsum]

no special coating, just a lot of autosol. Thanks for the replies guys, very encouraging