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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">James - VERY, VERY nice attention to detail. Love your history [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img] lesson here. Keep your photo chronology coming. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] </div></div>
Thanks Sam, I am an Artist (draw and paint) and for some reason I seem to be able to mix colors to achieve the exact finish(shade, color, tint, etc) I am seeking. I like things to not only look correct where you see, I like them to look right when you take it apart to service the vehicle. I dislike taking things apart and finding whole inner doors painted body color or tape lines everywhere, whole underdashes painted black etc OR painted/NASTY Window regulators, makes me wonder what other short cuts were taken? Ideally when I restore a car I would like it to gain the patina the original finishes gained through time, however on a much less aggressive (retarded) basis, if we restored cars as they left the factory, (even using 50 year old technology) and took care of them as WE do, they would last hundreds of years. |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: firstgenaddict</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How's that Monaco Orange <span style="font-style: italic">stripper</span> Chevelle coming along Tony? </div></div>
Slowly...still accumulating parts...although I did replace these sweet wheels that were on the car when I dragged it home. ;-) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/...3c9f7dbf0b.jpg |
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I'd rather be restoring that one... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/drool.gif[/img]
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What's the story on the "stripper Chevelle"?
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It's a COPO 427 car that spent most of its life in Ypsilanti, MI. Was in a shed from 1971-2005 and needs pretty much everything. It has about 9800 miles on the odo but you'd never know it!
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Wonderful Tony and Congrats! Please keep us posted. Monaco Orange COPO Chevelle - Wow!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]
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Thanks, I have owned it for a couple of years but haven't done much of anything to it yet.
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Tony is it a Malibu Trimmed car like George's Daytona Yellow Car?
Would be Bad A$$ with silver at the bottom, if it were correct! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...481#Post156481 |
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No, this one is all orange with a white side stripe. Most of the original paint is still there under the flaking white. Honestly I wish it was a different color but it will go back to the original color combo anyway.
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Package Tray Moulding
http://inlinethumb17.webshots.com/28...500x500Q85.jpg Drivers Door Glass (Prior to Dec the original Glass has no DOT markings) http://inlinethumb63.webshots.com/45...500x500Q85.jpg Drivers Quarter Glass http://inlinethumb40.webshots.com/44...500x500Q85.jpg Pass Quarter Glass http://inlinethumb16.webshots.com/31...500x500Q85.jpg Pass Door Glass http://inlinethumb51.webshots.com/45...500x500Q85.jpg |
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Cool! I guess that Z didn't have have tinted glass. Looks neat that way.
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Nope the dates are for Sept and Oct of 68.
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How does a person tell the date code on glass?...never had to do it so never learned it...great resto work!
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Looks just great James. Thanks for the updates.
My thots on repros: the company "attempting" a repro makes the conscious effort [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] to first determine the total number of ways they will deviate from a correct original piece and then they multiply that by a factor of at least 7. That way they ensure that the piece will only look like it could possibly fit so that they get the poor unsuspecting sap to buy the worthless piece of sh*t. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img] There - that feels better now. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/eek.gif[/img] |
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The problem is that the person approving the prototype for production never has to use the piece.
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We moved the car this week to get ready for the Drive train and dog house.... Interior is VERY close to done!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: firstgenaddict</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Inside floors and inner doors
http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg Original Dated Floor Pan Plugs are my floor plugs installed upside down??..or is this an optical illusion and the plug just 'looks' to be protruding upward?? </div></div> |
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No illusion, it's protruding "UP".
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They are installed correctly.
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Progress Progress Progress http://inlinethumb14.webshots.com/48...500x500Q85.jpg The Digits http://inlinethumb52.webshots.com/46...500x500Q85.jpg Eric Jackson's Artwork... http://inlinethumb59.webshots.com/23...500x500Q85.jpg |
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Very nice.
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Nice indeed! Bring this blue baby to MCACN next year! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
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Car is looking real good James!
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The cars looks great and will be a head turner when it's done.
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Real nice James!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
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I love it. Keep the pictures coming!
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very nice!!!!
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Just ordered a LOF front glass from Pilkington Classic Division which owns LOF and claims to be using original patterns/molds.
Side note: They also said on the Soft Ray glass theirs is green Soft Ray not blue. Anyone dealt with them before? Glass, Date coded, and shipping $350 Not too bad if it is CORRECT!!! Will update with photos when it arrives... |
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ore...
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real nice James. I used their glass in the front and back of my 69. Looks real nice and correct to me. Looks like you did not go crazy with the paint marks either.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">real nice James. I used their glass in the front and back of my 69. Looks real nice and correct to me. Looks like you did not go crazy with the paint marks either. </div></div>
Thanks Sam, It is very nice glass, and the price wasn't too bad, 350 or so for the front. and yes... I tried to stay away from being labeled "Restoration Graffiti." thank you for noticing. I also stayed away from CAST BLAST and paint on cast parts which in turn made me fall in love with and invest heavily in Boeshield and Cosmoline. I more or less replicated the survivors I have seen and photographed. JAG |
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Glad to see someone else not using cast blast paint. They look so much more authentic when they are not painted. Just my opinion. It is coming along nicely. Keep up the nice work.
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James - what an impressive resto. I see what you are trying to do with "no cast blast" and the like. AZ wx allows for un covered metal for the most part and I just love the real patina of metal if at all possible.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Glad to see someone else not using cast blast paint. They look so much more authentic when they are not painted. Just my opinion. It is coming along nicely. Keep up the nice work. </div></div>
Not only do they look more authentic, they age like they should. When the rest of the car ages and gains the beautiful patina like it should, a resto with painted cast parts looks like a resto with painted cast parts... IMHO the ultimate compliment would be if someone looks at a car I restored and second guesses as to whether it is a survivor or not. |
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I love Boeshield! My survivor nova drinks it. I like the look of cars and NOT lawn ornaments.
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Wow. Sure has come a long way! Looks great.
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Looks Great James , My color too. Let me know when you get to lower windshield trim. I need a picture of how that goes on
Mike |
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