Well, Ken, Congratulations! You must be completely and totally psyched. Hell, I remember when you first posted the pics from the barn over 7 years ago. Time flies, doesn't it? If my memory serves me correctly, I sent you some NOS rocker panel molding retainers a few years back, so I can say I contributed to what appears to be an amazing restoration. Of course, not as much as Nick & Yardley but....:laugh: Congrats again and enjoy!! :3gears:
The striping has commenced: <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/?action=view¤t=stripe3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/stripe3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/?action=view¤t=stripe2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/stripe2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/?action=view¤t=stripe1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/more3/stripe1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Man, my car never ever sounded so good! I can't believe that sound for a totally stock rebuild! p Brett, yes I remember those molding discs you gave me oh so long ago. There are so many people that contributed in so many ways. A lot of people will be able to claim supplied parts on the X. It's very cool to have so many Buick Brethren connected to the car. :TU: I'm liking the striping getting laid out. No doubt the "Buick Magician" will do a flawless job. Nick, that's a pretty cool moniker! And Yards is there every step of the way- and it looks like his son was there supervising Nick laying down the striping kit. :bglasses:
Layin' o' the stripes! <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=work3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/work3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=work2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/work2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=work1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/work1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=covered.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/covered.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Screwed up EXACTLY as they did it to Ken's GSX in 1971: <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=fail.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/fail.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Hood is done. Don't worry, there's plenty of tape to come off to show green... <a href="http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/?action=view¤t=hood.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/1badriv/GSX5/fenders/hood.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Good Job on the black Nick.. looks just about right. It will flatten more as it completely cures. Don't even touch the black with your fingers, if you can help it. Like I said on the phone, now that you've done the layout and painted one, you can "properly price" the next one.. Interesting decision to re-create factory screw ups, but I guess the customer is always right.. :idea2: JW
Jim, Ken wants this car to be as close to the way it was built as we can possibly get it (except over-restored, of course). This isn't the first set of new stripes that I'v seen go on with the screw up at that location...
Thanks Jim I only took all week to get this far ! Tomorrow we will paint the red . Sunday the black on the body ! I look Beat :rant: O yea , There was a finger print in the paint, somewhere I was told ? Ken knows for sure . Thanks for the help Yards, Thanks for the pics :laugh:
I understand that Yards, but where does one draw the line here? You recall what the stripes looked like around the handles. Do we re-create that mess too? If not, why not? That's the way it was.. I have seen a few guys put that jog in there before, but every set of stripes I have put on, we have the discussion about it, and we end up with "let's put them on like the factory intended to do". I like to see the defects in an original car, as it is a survivor, and they look like they should be there.. but personally don't care for them in a restored car. That's my personal preference. Now if the whole thing is done painstakingly shoddy, as the factory did, then that's one thing.. but I don't know anyone who wants to spend to coin to re-create what these cars really looked like. When Flynbuick's GSX was under the tent at the GS Nats and the BPG that year, I didn't hear anyone say "Nice car, but the stripes are done too well". They appreciated the execution of what the factory designers intended. I always say.. I restore them to be the way they "might have been", not the way they "had to be". If I was the painter at Buick back in the day, and saw folks re-creating my screwup.. I would be upset about folks celebrating my shortcomings. But to each his own. I am not making a right or wrong judgment here, when it comes down to it, whatever Ken wants is right for him. Car looks great, I am sure he will be very happy with it. JW
post #358 second picture you were starting to have me worried with that pic. Your belt buckle looks like its getting prett close to the car there. Dont want you to put a scratch in it after all this time and work. (sorry i dont know how to copy a post)
Yup.. even having done multiple sets of stripes.. I block out 3 full 10 hour days to lay them out and paint them. And folks wonder why it costs what it does to stripe a GSX.. they have to do it once, to appreciate how difficult it really is. So how many times did you swear at the stencil? :laugh: JW
You did look tired today Nick. I'd thought you'd perk up after that stack of Ben's I handed ya/:laugh: :laugh: on a serious note, the car is looking awesome! that hood is perfect! you are a lucky man Ken!
Nick- Looking real good! I guess painting stripes on is a pain in the butt, eh? JW, as far as the mismatch over the rear quarter, I did think long and hard about it. In the end I decided it was a "signature flaw" that all GSX's came with. There was a lot of other sloppy/shoddy work that varied car to car, but they all pretty much had the rear quarter mismatch. Hopefully I won't regret the decision, and I'm sure the local car show crowd will look at the flaw the restoration shop did and scratch their heads, but it's what I wanted in the end. Nick, I think I'll pass on the fingerprint in the red. It was in the passenger fender (the original one, not the primered one that replaced it obviously). Someone at the factory must have been checking to see if it was dry- and it wasn't! The car is over restored with painstaking detail that the factory didn't take the time to do. The detail painting, the recreation of chalk marks, the fact that almost all the parts are date code match originals and almost all of the bolts are refinished originals, etc. are all as they were originally- only better and more durable. The paint speaks for itself- no Flint car ever left the factory that straight or with that kind of gloss. Hopefully, the mismatch will be appreciated by those "in the know". Keep up the good work Nick! And get some rest!
