Hy My name ist Rainer and I'm a Daihatsu Fan since 1993 where I buy my first Daihatsu (a Daihatsu Charade G102s) from 1991. I am 38 years old, married and we have 2 children.
Sometimes if you are a fan of a brand you come up with the idea that you want to have a historic car of your brand as it does in my case. I buyed the car on ebay.
As I contact the last registered owner within the car papers the women who answered the phone was very amazed that I could buy the car. She, told me that he gave the car to a big Ford Dealer to scrap while they buy a new car. I buy it for 300,- euro. I did made a complete frame off restore to this car, so I would like to have it in best condition was possible for me.
It took about 2 year to finish this "job" but as you know, old cars are never really complete finished.... Here you can see a 10 minutes video of the restore process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uZktZz4r50
I register it as historical car in Austria, so I got a certificate from Daihatsu that my car is builde in December 1980, first registering in Austria was in September 1981. If made about 2000 pictures while restoring my car and print out about 600 pics and put it to a picture album.
I have removed EVERY screw of that car and rebuild it and repair it..... Here a few still images from the car before and after restore
More Pictures are available: http://www.charade-g10.net/rainer_restore.htm
Thanks for sharing your ride with us, looks like a lot of work you have put in there. Keep it up.