Recent content by Rich H.

Corrosion in the door seams in the common problem on those….which means complete strip to bare metal and tear down , grind the skin off, blast and corrosion protect the structure, install a new skin, prep and paint. although we regularly do that sort of stuff to our old b bodies, it’s pretty...

Used alot of it the first time I did the GTX, 30 years ago. It shrunk. (Never again) Metal work sure looks nice.

Sorry, didn't know there was an old question sitting there. I wasn't trying to match anything on the car, was going by the appearance of other vehicles that I'd seen. In that one regard I did have good luck. The hood I painted in this thread sure is not the nicest hood I've ever seen, I am...

It sure is coming along great, and I love the silver. Thanks for the thread. Posts like yours totally talked me out of trying an AMD hood.

A couple of the small parts in the dip tank. It's 6 gallons of vinegar and a handful of salt in the tank. Works pretty well but is a little slow. I can move on, go do other things, and come back to these later, hopefully finding them rust free or nearly so. I know these are available new...

A shot to show the improvement....I lived with the pitted originals for a few decades. Time to try to do better. The original lenses look right at home.

My current situation starts now. I saved the original tail light lenses with sanding/polishing. This seems to be fairly common knowledge but I'll explain to anyone looking to try it. The reproduction bezels have the problems that everyone says/they don't fit exactly right. But they sure...

De-rusted the bumper brackets in the dip tank, welded on a couple MIA weld nuts, painted epoxy/summit single stage black/my go-to general chassis black. Applied some wax to the backside instead of painting the backside like alot of folks do. The long pins work with a ratchet strap to help me...

Detail on the trunk finish panel refinish. started off with a "new" (much less pitted than what I had) replacement from a sport satellite, stripped it, "*liquid masked" the shiny areas and applied epoxy, then the black which was Summit Hot Rod black/catalyzed urethane, then masked the black off...

Painted the side marker housings, interior upper quarter panels, and upper grille support. First time I have had a trunk seal on this car since the late 90s. I know it's not necessary to have a million clothespins on the trunk seal if you follow the directions, but I didn't want to follow the...

Not having the budget or the desire for national show winner quality trim, I find I'm pretty content with polishing the trim as I go with the old air die grinder with a large felt cone, using jeweler's rouge and finishing with mother's mag wheel polish. In the first pic I'm holding the piece...

Before anyone thinks "here he is gloating about his stupid hoist", remember one ram leaks like a sieve. Need to fix that asap. It may look like a glamour shot, but there's nothing glamorous going on. Just alot of hard but enjoyable work + a bunch of learning.

I'd spray can painted the tank decades ago with rustoleum professional. It wasn't in perfect shape anymore but it held up well enough to try it again. I stripped it, and this time used the rustoleum as a basecoat, and covered it with a budget clearcoat (acme fc720, the same stuff that is on the...

Thank Appreciate that. It's going to turn some of life upside down for the foreseeable future. Prepped out the underbody in the new metal areas. Some of the ecoat was left intact. Sprayed epoxy, seam sealed, sprayed summit single stage black/my go-to underbody paint, and undercoated it...

I got tired of missing things during cut and buff, so I decided to start circling every little thing that I didn't like. That took care of that issue. What is hard to explain is, the clear surrounding a dust nib or piece of an insect sands differently than the bad spot itself. The bad spots...