WEST SYSTEM: The car built with WEST SYSTEM products
8th January 2016

The car built with WEST SYSTEM products

Check out the wonderful story of how car enthusiast Peter Warner rebuilt the body of an old Citroen 2CV with the help of WEST SYSTEM® epoxy.

Purchasing two large planks of wood felled from an ash tree, Peter got to work on Cretino – a name cleverly designed by rearranging the letters of a Citroen name plate – all put together of course with WEST SYSTEM epoxy.

Read the full story and find out how Peter did it.

Image credit: RanWhenParked.net

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