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01-19-2015, 08:48 PM | #1 |
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Post your detail shots of beautiful restorations
I don't claim to have reached it with my truck, but I'm a huge fan of over-restored vehicles.
By over-restored I do NOT mean custom. I also love elegant fabrication, but that's a completely separate topic. In this case I mean, for example, a Moraine booster with a Delco master and a factory prop valve. But instead of iron, stainless steel lines. But the tube nuts must be anodized to their factory colors. There are a ton of Corvette NCRS that sweat these details, though they don't usually like -over- restoration (they want orange peel and overspray and bad gaps like it should be from the factory). But not so much in trucks. I guess over-restoring the bed wood is really common, but it's actually quite incorrect (and I did it too, but it should be body color). I'd love to see photos of detailed builds. I'll post a couple of mine, but again, I know a lot of mine is "wrong". I intentionally have about 5 colors in my suspension (grey, dark grey, black, blue, cadmium) and it was probably all black or natural originally. But I love the contrast and detail while remaining "stock". I guess in a way I mean "What it would look like if GM was Rolls Royce" or similar.
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01-19-2015, 10:49 PM | #2 |
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Re: Post your detail shots of beautiful restorations
My 72 K10 Cheyenne
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01-19-2015, 11:17 PM | #3 |
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Re: Post your detail shots of beautiful restorations
My engine bay
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01-20-2015, 09:31 PM | #4 |
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Re: Post your detail shots of beautiful restorations
Very nice and tidy! I was sort of looking for stock-replicating detail, but you can't argue with clean and well engineered!
Here's one random shot from one of mine (Pontiac). Not a very convincing shade of grey on the booster, but I've got the anodized tube nuts, the correct tags and stickers, all of that.
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01-21-2015, 09:19 AM | #5 |
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Re: Post your detail shots of beautiful restorations
Dave--looks nice but curious why you painted the MC cover and retaining arm--is that the way the Pontiac came? I always thought those parts were anodized as well. Regards, Dave.
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