Swiss Cheese 1970 Charger RT resto video, Nicks Garage.

Speedbird said:

Not a restoration.
That's impossible on any car today since no one has the factory tooling to accurately reconstruct the car.
It's a "new build".
Salvation isn't a bad thing.
But the common , popular terminology on this type of thing has never seemed accurate to me since to restore is to bring back something to it original condition.
I don't think that's possible.

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eldubb440 said:

I lasted one minute........

"sending the car out for media blasting" is a complete waste of time unless the obvious trash is cut away first. the areas that actually need blasting, such as overlaps where the new metal will be attached, will still be rusty

I blast as I go, as needed.......... any shop not doing their blasting "in house" is just jerking off

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moparedtn said:

In defense of Nick, his is not a "restoration shop" - nor is it even a body/paint shop.
He's a 5-decade mechanic and a damn good one at that - and he loves Mopars.
In fact, his knowledge of them probably exceeds that of such "experts" as the Wormans out there...

He has done precious few "from scratch" cars for customers over the years for obvious reasons -
they take up time and space in a turn-over environment like a repair shop - but when he does do
one, it's pretty damn impressive.
The '69 Charger 500 he just completed for my Texas buddy Eugene Castles is nothing short of amazing;
it took over two years to complete nonetheless, given the methods and time devoted.

Nick sends the body and paint out to a lifelong friend who owns a shop specializing in those instead
and the cars come to that shop stripped to nothing typically, where his friend begins his painstakingly
nitpicky process (and Nick begins to worry about when he'll get the car back from "paint shop jail").

Nick has recently began doing these, triggered apparently by two events:
1. His "internet guy/cameraman" George advises him of the constant need for "content" for the channel
2. Nick did this entire restoration process to his own "Kowalski Challenger" first and enjoyed the process
(another gorgeous build, albeit with a few tweaks he wanted to do to it along the way).
Oh....and he actually drives his and expects others to drive theirs once he's done with them, too.

Once he gets the gorgeous shell back from his friend, Nick does his Nick thing, using some pretty impressively
restored factory bits and assemblies (he has favorites and friends in the area who do carbs, windshield
wiper motors, upholstery, pretty much anything on the car he doesn't buy NOS).
Of course, he does his thing with the drivetrain and the rebuilt engine hits the dyno in-house to get dialed in, too.

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eldubb440 said:

well, someone is jerking off....... and he seems to be taking credit for it

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