Projects & Garage
AUTO INDOOR & INDULGE ME PHOTO ARCHIVE · OPEN THE ALBUM
Before the shine comes a series of decisions.
A finished car is one moment in a project. Before it come assessment, research, parts, choices and work. Explore what is preserved, what changes and why.
Preserve, restore or transform?
FIVA’s Charter of Turin treats historic vehicles as heritage, recognising the value of their materials and history. Understand what a component says about the car before replacing it.
Restoring a historical condition requires research. Period references and documentation distinguish an evidence-based reconstruction from a purely aesthetic choice. Recording the work is part of the result.
A transformation may pursue a particular visual language, use or performance goal. Explain what changed and why, without presenting modifications as factory originality.
Read the original source ↗Follow a project through four stages
The starting point: photographs and an initial account establish the car’s condition before the work. Start with a concrete situation rather than jumping to the finished image.
The intention: owners and professionals decide what they want to achieve. Preserving, restoring and changing how a car is used are different goals. Explain the choice.
The decisions: record interventions, references, parts and changes of direction. Process photographs reveal work a visitor cannot see in the finished car.
The result: compare the outcome to the initial intention. Show details, identify contributors and retain the link to the car’s history. Completing a stage should not erase the journey.
AUTO INDOOR & INDULGE ME PHOTO ARCHIVE · OPEN THE ALBUM
Get to know a garage through its work
A project offers a concrete way to understand the people working on a car. Look for process photographs, explanations of decisions and identification of those involved.
Ask what was retained, what was replaced and which references guided the work. Choices and constraints make a story more interesting than the finish alone.
The garage holds stories too
A part found after months of searching, a recovered component or a documented solution can become a story. Maintenance and care also keep this culture alive.
This is an editorial guide. It does not present the artwork’s “Project 027” as a registered real project or attribute it to a workshop. Future project profiles need identified cars, contributors, process and authorised images.