Vehicle restoration is the process of restoring a vehicle

Vehicle

A vehicle is a device that is designed or used to transport people or cargo. Most often vehicles are manufactured, such as bicycles, cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, boats, and aircraft....

 that is either partially scrap

Scrap

Scrap is a term used to describe recyclable and other materials left over from every manner of product consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap has significant monetary value...

ped or otherwise life expired back to its original working condition. Automotive restoration

Automotive Restoration

Automobile restoration is the process of repairing the degraded aspect of a car to return it to an overall "authentic" condition. To renovate a car without updating or upgrading it by keeping in line with how it would have appeared when first offered for sale...

 can be applied to many different eras of automobile

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

. Heritage railways and railway museums aim to restore and operate restored trains. Bus preservation groups aim to purchase bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

es of various eras to restore them to their original operating condition. Trains and buses are often restored to the original authentic livery

Livery

A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in...

 of their original owner.

Cosmetic restoration

'Cosmetic restoration of a vehicle (or building) refers to the restoration of its appearance, rather than its functionality or structure. For example, restoring the bodywork of an automobile, but not the engine or running gear. It is usually undertaken when the vehicle is destined for long-term static display, or (particularly for railway locomotives) when full restoration will take much time to complete and a coat of paint will help protect the metal from further corrosion. The term is also used where a fully functioning vehicle only needs its appearance improved.