[OU812]

Originally Posted by JasonD

It's not just myself working on the car. The entire family is working on it along with one of my father's employees so it gets worked on sporadically just about every day.

Turnaround time depends on the amount of work to be done and the condition of the car at the beginning. I give customers an estimated time of completion, but I'm not a guy who goes by a deadline usually. I'm not ever going to be like a Boyd Coddington who is throwing together a car at 3AM in the morning to make a photo shoot. That's not the way to build a car.

I can tell by the amount of progress this is not a brother/sister operation alone. (This will be my last comment because I don't wish to take away from a good restoration thread) The fact remains the other cars you have on youre site are not progressing over the Judge's same term. Please understand, for those shopping for a good restoration shop the lack of new progress on your customers' cars over the same period would be a red flag IMO and leaves the existing customers scratching their heads.

All this being said, you are very talented and I will be following all youre photoed projects for they are a good resource for us hopefuls.

[Jim Robertson]

That one is stunning!!! Shazaam!

Outstanding work.
Jim

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by Jim Robertson

That one is stunning!!! Shazaam!

Outstanding work.
Jim

Thanks Jim!

I'm pretty sick with the flu......but my dad was begging me to come up and see the car today, so I went up this afternoon and took a video so people can see the reflection and clarity of the paint. It's hard to take good pictures of white paint.

Click on the picture to see the video:

[The Boss]

When it did get painted on the line, weren't there dolly marks - spots where the car sat on a dolly that didn't get painted?

[JasonD]

I would never try to paint a car body with the inside of the body not masked off. There are just too many nooks and crannys for a speck of dust to hide in. When you start spraying the car there is alot of compressed air flying around.....and any little speck of dust is always gonna come flying out to land in your fresh paint. It never fails.

If one were to be doing a car that needed to be acid-dipped......and the inside of the body was bare metal.......I would spray the inside of the body first to make it LOOK like it was oversprayed, and then mask it off and do the paint on the outside seperately.

[robz]

Originally Posted by JasonD

I would never try to paint a car body with the inside of the body not masked off. There are just too many nooks and crannys for a speck of dust to hide in. When you start spraying the car there is alot of compressed air flying around.....and any little speck of dust is always gonna come flying out to land in your fresh paint. It never fails.

If one were to be doing a car that needed to be acid-dipped......and the inside of the body was bare metal.......I would spray the inside of the body first to make it LOOK like it was oversprayed, and then mask it off and do the paint on the outside seperately.

Good point...So it could be done just like the factory did it if body was completely dust free...Then put on Frame...

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by robz

Good point...So it could be done just like the factory did it if body was completely dust free...Then put on Frame...

Yes it could be done. I would never do it though. There are too many hours of work put into making the body perfect to take a chance on a fat speck of dirt flying out onto the roof or something.

[Held for Ransom]

I've never seen a 2U. What options did the vehicle have pertaining to the speedo? Most 1970 clusters have the WA or WD sticker. What does the sticker say for speedo number?

[Larry P]

I also have the 2U sticker on my 70 Oshawa car the number looks like 6498242 its pretty faded and hard to see there are two lines above it I cant read and it also says AC-Made in Canada

[Held for Ransom]

Can you read the cluster number (probably not)? It may be a Canadian thing.

[Larry P]

I cant see it its too faded out

[JLHarper]

Jason, I have maybe 15-20 clusters. I will look when I can.
I bet I have a clean tag but probably all US versions.
Here are two I had in pic file on computer.

Super job!

[1970GTOs]

Jason GREAT job I can see that you hit the LOTTO in finding the car can't wait to see it finished I bet this car makes it in some magazine for sure. Good luck and God Bless!

[JasonD]

Thanks guys!

Things are starting to get shiny around here!

[JasonD]

Here are some fun "before and after" shots......

Gas tank and rear axle



Rear shock and brake backing plate

[getmygoat]

Did you fill in the pitting on the shocks or are those repops?

I assume the rear had some pitting that was filled in?

p.s. - Beautiful work, I wish my Dad (or I) had founded wal-mart or something.

[JasonD]

Originally Posted by getmygoat

Did you fill in the pitting on the shocks or are those repops?

I assume the rear had some pitting that was filled in?

p.s. - Beautiful work, I wish my Dad (or I) had founded wal-mart or something.

Thanks!

Those are all the original shocks. I wanted to save them because they are date coded and stamped with "DELCO CANADA".......so they are pretty much non-existant.

Yes we had to fill in some pitting on the axle tubes.

[70 PEPPER GREEN]

Jason Absolutley bueatyful thanks again hope you feel better thanks

[JasonD]

Thanks for all the nice comments guys!

Here is the bottom of the hood and the inside of the doors and trunk lid now in new Polar White paint. The bottom of the hood was first painted with black primer and then oversprayed in the factory pattern underneath......



Here is the restored original Hurst shifter, with re-chromed shaft and restored t-handle:



And a nice "before and after" comparison of the bottom of the hood:

[Pontiac_Defender]

very nice!!! thanks for sharing the pics!!!