I did everything myself last summer in the courtyard of a friend.The body was in pretty bad condition as all French cars from that period.The ribs in the car were made to increase the rigidity so they could make the metal thinner.Specially the front wings were completely f....t.You could put your fist under the wing straight to the driver seat.
70 % of it is remodeled with glass fiber.Also the "Clapeta" is made of it.
I been working 10 years for a company making parts of glass fiber so that part was a peace of cake.The paint job was done outside in the wind with a cheap paint from Hungary and a 50 Lei pistol from Baumax. The whole bodywork cost me about 150 Euro in materials,you could say almost for free.
Regarding the registration cost of 2000 Euro:
in Europe a car is considered "Oldtimer" from the moment that it reach 25 year.
In Romania they consider 30 year after the last production year of the type with for the HY was 1981.
we consider our self lucky that we paid it 2 days before those bastards tripled the shit.
That little sequence was taken at the Sibiu Rally sponsored by Citroen were we were invited by Didier Gerard the director of Citroen Romania
peace.
Marc