“Over the last 12 months I have had 2 of my cars restored by Ady Oliver and his Team at Divine Auto Restorations….Divine are easy to do business with and I was kept abreast pictorially and verbally on a regular basis.
Over the last 12 months I have had 2 of my cars restored by Ady Oliver and his Team at Divine Auto Restorations.
I’ve known Ady for many years and I’ve seen the quality of the workmanship the Company offers so I knew my cars would be in safe hands.
The first car to undergo restoration was a Porsche RS60 Spyder. This car whilst always having been serviced has been somewhat neglected over the years. It had been left in a paddock and my donkey and horses had licked the paintwork causing deep bare metal scratches and nearly every panel had dents. A mouse had managed to find its way into the vehicle and had chewed on a number of hoses and wires. The front splitters being unique to this model badly cracked and beyond repair. The car was leaking and many functions ceased to work.
Divine literally took every single nut, bolt and panel off the car. They refurbished, repaired or renewed every single component. Sourcing factory original parts from Stuttgart where appropriate. Not an easy task given the rarity of the vehicle, particularly finding unique body parts on this low production model.
The result is outstanding, the attention to detail beyond reproach. I can only describe the outcome as concourse.”
— Iain Ramage 2020
“The second car in many respects was a harder proposition. This being a Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet with incredibly low mileage which I’ve owned for approx. 25 years.
This vehicle has been dried stored in the corner of my garage but has only been driven less than 50 miles in the last 20 years. Call it a garage find! Even though the car had seen little use literally everything needed restoring. The red paint had bloomed the interior leather had faded and needed replacing. Sometime before I bought the car someone had poorly tried to refurbish it. This all had to redone and properly.
Again full nuts, bolts, panels off ground up restoration was required and as is sometimes the way with such projects,
Ady and his Team found nightmares to resolve along the way as they broke down and rebuilt the car.
Whilst they worked on the car, we jointly made the decision to add some really worthwhile additions to enhance the vehicle but maintain its integrity. This included heating the seats, upgrading the sound system with the latest Blaupunkt retro head unit but taking it a stage further by cleverly putting amps under the seats and integrating a sub in the boot where the CD changer had once resided. Replacing the speaker units but maintaining the original grill covers are just typical examples of the attention to detail.
The car was completely re-upholstered in red and black leather, even the tonneau cover, originally tired vinyl has been replaced by leather.
Mechanically the car was completely stripped down and rebuilt, with many parts replaced or restored.
The result is unbelievable. The car is beyond concourse condition and has to be the finest example of the marque in the UK. Better than it left the factory with sensitive additions and far more useable.
Overall I am delighted by the results. Divine are easy to do business with and I was kept abreast pictorially and verbally on a regular basis.
— Iain Ramage