Introducing Bessie

Welcome to our blog! As you might have guessed, it's about restoring a car. This blog will follow the project as it happens. The trials and errors, the successes and the failures. We won't be aiming at a show-quality restoration or try to keep it completely authentic. All we want at the end is a nice family car to drive to cruisings and other events during the summer. We hope, that this blog might be of help to someone doing a similar project or at least be an interesting read.

We had talked about getting a "project car" for quite some time, about ten years maybe. It's only now that we have the garage to do the work in. We knew the car had to be American and preferably from the 1950's. It also needed to be big enough for our whole family. It had to be reasonably priced and the amount of work that would be needed had to be within reason. So, suddenly last summer, we spotted an advert for a Buick. She needed a lot of work, but not too much. Her engine ran but she wasn't drivable. There were parts included. So after driving to Kirkkonummi and giving the car a quick once over, she was ours.

Bessie coming home

And that's how we got her. Bessie, that is. She is a 1955 Buick Century Riviera 2-door hardtop. She is blue. She is big. And she needs a lot of work.