Nothing says car guy like a frame-off restoration.
A fantasy in deep purple and fuchsia, the car has had what is known as a frame-off customizing job.
Mr. Sheard was seriously thinking of buying the car until he drove it to a mechanic, who told him the Avanti was in such bad shape that it needed a frame-off restoration.
He's been without it for a few months – driving a new Mazda 6 in the interim – and just got the 626 back this week from what was basically the unibody version of a frame-off restoration.
A frame-off restoration project requires space, tools and time.
If you are doing a frame-off classic Chevy truck restoration, it would be different than if you wanted a truck that can be put on the road while you fix it up.
Photographers have found themselves escorted from the premises, London's oldest block of flats and one of its most exclusive addresses, for snapping off a frame of the interior courtyard.
As the broker pointed to a small space in the corner of the bedroom sectioned off by a frame of 2 by 4s, I tried to picture my clothes hanging in this soon-to-be-built "spacious closet," all the while consciously ignoring the only real thing I could actually see at that moment, a shirtless old man smoking in the courtyard.
Ralph Barton's drawings, like his signature, have a squared-off quality, a frame of high intention that suggests an aspiration beyond the momentary smile most cartoons are content to induce.
"There were a few frames where he could have killed the frame off and I would end up getting snookers and get back in the frame and lose it after 20 minutes.
"On our way back to the cab, Ryan Lochte pulled a poster in a metal frame off a wall.
