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CASE STUDY: The One and Only!

This month, we are featuring a very special custom built car with a unique design!

We built the Figaro to the very highest specifications.  As with all of our restorations, we spent over 300 hours on the car, taking over 100 hours on mechanical work alone. This project involved a significant rebuild of the mechanics of the car - including the suspension, steering components to brakes, control valves and temperature senders etc.

We finally settled on a Porsche metallic blue colour and we repainted every area of the car, from under the bonnet to inside the boot, including all of the white parts and trims. We also fitted an alarm and central locking system, Bluetooth connectivity, a radio with iPod upgrade, heated seats with two heat settings and an in-car Sat Nav.

The custom interior included hand-stitched and re-foamed Italian leather seats coloured in blue and ivory. The design contrasted the original Figaro style by using the ivory on the piping and the blue colour on the main area of the seats. We continued this design by creating the new leather rear bench seats in the same manner.

The door cards were re-trimmed with the leather backing in the same ivory colour and we also recreated the leather speaker pockets and armrests in the contrasting blue and ivory. All other areas, such as the gear shift, handbrake and steering wheel were custom designed in the same colours.

We think our hours of loving craftsmanship paid off and produced a truly beautiful Figaro - we love projects like this!

Our client was very happy with her finished Fig too and sent us this lovely letter:

Hi there Toby,

Thank you for your email and all the information, that's brilliant, will definitely want to become a member.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank yourself and all your colleagues who worked so hard on customising my Figaro.  I knew when I came to visit your workshop in May of last year, that with all your knowledge and expertise on the Figaro cars that you were going to be the very man who would put everything that I wanted together for me and all that I hoped for into MY FIGARO.

I would now like to thank you for doing that.  After choosing the colours for the interior and exterior and knowing that it would look really good, it didn't just look good, it looked absolutely stunning, inside and out.

Everywhere I go my Figaro turns heads, and too rightly too.  After all the bad weather we had over the Christmas and wet weather we are having I haven't had the opportunity to take her out for a real showing off.  These little cars are so comfortable and so enjoyable to drive I am looking forward to having my first long drive out in her.

Once again, Toby, thank you for all your hard work.

The Very Proud owner of
a Figaro customised by
THE FIGARO SHOP

Marion Crerand
P.S.  Have you got a The Figaro Shop Sticker which I can stick on my car window?

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