1971BB427 said:
Makes me want to chop mine up and start over!
That truly is very clean and neat looking! Even places where most people will never see, it's still nicer than many cars are in the obvious places! Nice work, and I love that you're doing most of it yourself!
Personally that was something that hit me long ago, I was working at a full on restoration shop and was about 20 years old. We were doing a spare wheel on a Model A ford. We had the wheel sand blasted and it was pretty pitted, I had primed it and was sanding each spoke real nice and my boss came over and said to get it painted, it is "just a spare wheel" after all. It hit me like a brick, "just a spare wheel"? HUH? It would be bolted on the a bracket in a spare tire well on the fender for goodness sakes! It would be sitting right there for all to see on the fender! If this is "just a spare" why didn't we do a half ars job on the fender being it is "just a fender"?
Nope, I did just the job I always did and that wheel look just as good as the fender and cowl and hood that I painstakingly sanded out every speck of texture after every 5 coats of lacquer.
Personally in my opinion (sorry to those who don't feel this way , nothing personal) but I feel a real nice car is one that you could take apart and put it in a car show. I mean it, it should be show worthy with the door panels and seats and carpet out of the car! I am not talking psychopath crazy like cut and buffed floor and inside the doors but nice, it should all be painted as if someone was going to see it that way. I don't care if it isn't going to be seen, it should be NICE.
Does every car need to be done like that, no not on your life my Gran Sport sure as heck isn't. But if you want a real special car, that is what you do. And for goodness sakes the "show cars" had better be built like that or they are a poser.
I will never forget seeing an AMBR winner at Roy Brizios shop a few years after it had won. I will never forget this, the trunk interior trim was out of it. There was a little square tubing brace or two running across the back of the body behind the seat. It was BARE METAL! I am not making this up, this six figure car (we are talking a car that won in the late seventies or early eighties) probably one of the first six figure hot rods. The underside of the trunk lid was red primer everywhere that was covered with the beautiful upholstered panel. The paint ended right where it would be covered with overspray falling over the primer. There was a few wires going to something that weren't wrapped in any way and were simply black taped every couple of feet across these tubing braces that weren't even painted!
I was blown away, absolutely blown away, in my opinion it was a shock.
Nope, there is no reason for that. And that is the coolest thing about detail, it's FREE! Anyone in their garage with very few tools can blow away some shop built car simply because you have more passion to put the extra mile into it.
Like I said, I applaud those who apply themselves and build the outstanding car because they have the passion to make it outstanding.
Brian