CSR2 Legends, Imports & Restoration: How to Restore Cars and Win Rare Imports (2026)

CSR2 Legends is one of the most rewarding parts of CSR Racing 2, and also one of the most confusing for newcomers. Instead of buying a car and racing it, you restore a classic piece by piece before it can even turn a wheel. Here is how Legends, import parts and the Rare Imports machine actually work, plus how to restore cars faster without wasting parts.

What CSR2 Legends are

Legends are iconic, historical cars that you cannot simply unlock and drive. You have to restore each one first. Until a Legend is fully restored you cannot upgrade or tune it, which is the opposite of how a normal dealership car behaves. That restoration loop is the whole appeal: you are rebuilding a classic rather than just adding it to the garage.

How restoration works

Restoring a Legend means collecting the restoration parts it needs and applying them until the car is complete. Those parts come from daily trials and events, so the most efficient approach is to focus on one car at a time. When your daily trial parts all match the single car you are restoring, every reward pushes that build forward instead of being spread thin across cars you are not finishing. Jumping between several restorations at once is the most common reason players feel stuck.

Import parts and the wait

Like the rest of CSR2, the later upgrade parts take time. The higher tier import parts do not arrive instantly; they carry a delivery timer you either wait out or skip with gold. That is why gold matters so much in the late game, and why a steady supply of keys keeps your crate pulls coming. Plan your gold around the parts you actually need rather than skipping every timer on impulse.

The Rare Imports machine

This is the reward most players are really chasing. Once you complete Restoration Rush from the Legends collection, you unlock a dedicated Legends machine in Rare Imports, found in the Crates tab in your Garage. It offers components, fusion parts and Stage 6 EVO parts for the entire Legends collection, which is exactly the gear you need to push a restored Legend to its competitive ceiling. In other words, finishing your restorations is not the end of the road, it opens the door to the best upgrade source for those cars.

Legends Revival

In 2025 the system expanded with Legends Revival, a continuation that adds new classics and challenges on top of the original collection, beginning with cars like the Mustang Shelby GT350 and the Lamborghini Miura SV. The catch is that you need to complete the full original Legends collection before Revival unlocks, so the original restorations are worth finishing even if your eye is on the newer cars. Always check the in-game event screen, since the lineup and challenges rotate over time.

Tips to restore faster

• One car at a time. Funnel every daily part into a single restoration so nothing is wasted.
• Do not strip duplicates for Stage 6. If you are short on Stage 6 parts, wait for an assistance event rather than scrapping a duplicate, which is usually the better value.
• Hold your duplicates. Restoring a second copy of a car you already own is rarely the best use of parts early on.
• Bank gold for the import timers on the cars you actually care about, not every single one.

The shortcut, if you want it

Restoration is genuinely satisfying, but it is also slow, and the Stage 6 and fusion parts for Legends can take a long time to farm. If you would rather skip that grind, you can have Legends restoration help, the right fusion parts or full upgrade services delivered to your account, so a classic you have wanted for months is race-ready in about twenty minutes. Plenty of players do both: restore the cars they enjoy building, and order the ones they simply want to drive.

Bottom line

CSR2 Legends rewards patience. Restore one car at a time, feed it your daily parts, save gold for the import timers that matter, and finish the original collection to unlock both Legends Revival and the Rare Imports machine that supplies the best parts. Do that and your restored classics will hold their own against anything on the strip. New to the wider game? Start with our complete CSR2 mods guide.