Ready, Set, Resto!

I'm groovin' on the mismatch.

 

Looks NICE!

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Nick,
The staggers in the stripes look perfect. Hope the original paint GSX fender I loaned you helped with the stripe alignment.

I bet Ken is excited.
Duane

PS. Nice valve cover decal.:laugh:

 

Nick-

The hood looks great! Better than ever! When I was a kid I used to polish the crap out of those stripes because they wouldn't shine! I thought the sun had faded them as I never saw another GSX around to compare to. I can't wait to see the rest of it striped and yes I am very excited! :beers2: :TU:

 

There's GOT to be a joke in there somewhere.

 

Is it just the picture, or is the instrument cluster missing the black around the woodgrain???? o No:

 

I don't really know about what you are referring, but I can tell you this: if it is supposed to be there, it's there.

 

"The staggers in the stripes look perfect."....................."There's GOT to be a joke in there somewhere."

No joke,
You can see from the mask how both the red & black stripes will have a slight stagger once painted. This recreates the effect caused when the factory overlapped their paper masks when originally striping the cars.

Factory paint cars will have this stagger over the rear wheels and at the mid point of the rear spoiler.

A few of the latest "Concours style" restorations, including mine, have done this. It's nice to see attention to detail taken to this level.

Some of the top Chevelle restorers have been doing this for years on their high end restorations.
Duane

 

Duane....I was just joking about how "perfect" the factory "imperfection" was. :TU:

 

The black "ledge" betweem the woodgrain and the chrome

 

Are 71's like that?

 

Here is a picture of the factory Flaw in the stripes.

 

Yup
I've seen others that came back from the plater's with the rest of the black painted but that black missing.

 

Post #293, 5th pic down shows the original interior and you can see the black behind the woodgrain.

That's one hell of a catch, Nick!

 

Dumb question... then why aren't the woodgrain appliques already painted?

 

Ah. Looks like the plater screwed up then.

 

OK... comin' down to the wire:

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Correctly restored grille:

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Damn, just broke my Schwingometer :laugh:
want to laugh, cry and drool at the same time.

Frikkkkin awesome. congrats Ken, and thanks for sharing this process here. Love seeing this come together.