Hot Wheels Redline Restoration : 1967 Custom Firebird
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as a kid it was great to be able to have these toys of one's favorite cars. The condition prior to the restorations is a testament as to how much playability they have.
Great job guy! I had a red Custom Firebird back then. I'm still kicking myself after 40 years have passed that I gave my collection away like an idiot. BUT, I am in the process of getting them back again slowly but surely!
Seeing past the small imperfections on the casting itself this thing came out sweet man. The windshield looks brand new!!! Missed some tail light details.
Excellent work as usual. Good video 👍🏽
Thank you! Yeah, I totally forgot the tails were painted originally. I painted them after the fact but didn't want to film again. Takes too much time :)
I feel as though you matched the color perfectly! Plus those dents may look bad in ones eyes, but I see them as how this car has survived 50 years
That's amazing. Could watch these all day.
*Turned out awesome in my opinion, it survived 50 years let's see how far it makes it now*
Your videos are really amazing and very inspirational, thank you for restoring such beautiful cars!
Mate. It turned out really well? Mate. It's perfect. I personally like these small imperfections. It gives a certain quality. Keep up the great work. I love your videos. I am a youtube "surfer" and crushing on your videos made me a maniac of seeing all your work. Peace and respect from a Greek Canadian. 👌👌👌👍👍
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
The car as a whole is awesome, you do some great work. Most of these cars when you get them look ready for the trash and you bring them back to life. Great job!
Thank you!
Man! You're a tough critic on your own work. That thing looks new!
Thank you, I'm always critical on myself. The wife can't stand it!
Cada restaurador/renovador tiene su toque particular. El suyo es evidentemente la calidad del uso de la lija y el pulido y la fina terminación de la pintura.
Un hermoso trabajo: gracias por compartirlo con nosotros.
No matter the craftsman, artist, woodworker....we are always more critical of our own work that are others. This is a beautiful effort....I love these videos for a couple of reasons. (1) they are incredibly Zen-like and relaxing to watch; (2) they take us back to our childhood; and (3) for some miraculous reason, at 63, I still have all of my and my brothers 200+ Redline Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Johnny Lightning cars. I'm retired now, but between my decoy carving, backpacking the AT, and antique refinishing, mountain biking and fly fishing hobbies, I intend to restore a couple of my die cast cars. Thank you----extremely nice job on restoring what was always one of my favorite Hot Wheels!
Thank you, I really appreciate it! Funny is I started doing this for two reasons. 1st was the grandson, the 2nd reason is when I retire years from now I want to build the stack of models I've acquired over the years so I thought this would make good practice.
awesome restoration as Always!!! ;)
You watch motorcycle racing in background, while I watch you in background as I work on my motorcycle parts :)
Ha, that is awesome! I don't miss Supercross/Motocross for anything!
Just when I'm about to call it a night here goes a blue beauty from you.
ME TOO, 16 HOURS LATER.
haha just found your videos a couple of hours ago this is like watching a Bob Ross painting show getting all my old cars out to play
Happy little trees!
Love these restoration videos. I don't collect die cast at all, but I do appreciate the passion behind them!
Firebird is one of my personal favorites
I'm not much of a craftsman and will probably never do a Hot Wheels restoration but I love watching vids like this. (Hoping some of your skill will rub off on my plastic modelling and airbrushing techniques!)
Thank you, I appreciate it!
I just found this exact casting yesterday at a thrift store for $1.99. The paint was a little rougher than yours but the hood, and wheels run great. I had to watch your video again.
And here I am 3:13 in the morning wide awake watching your videos love the work keep it up!
Super sweet restoration.
I'm happy its come this far too.
turned out great! I've been hooked on using the deep dish wheels on my restorations, really makes them pop. I too have not been having much luck with vibe tumblers either
I think I'm going to order some deep dish next time :)
One of my favorite red line casting. Great results
Another awesome restoration, i had a look at a couple of the links, it is really good, thank you once again for another fantastic restoration.
Thank you!
my favourite redline casting... you did a great job! looks great!!
Excellent results. Thumbs up.
It looks PERFECT!!!
Excellent Restoration, like the way you did the posts with the larger bit first.
Sir I have seen lots of your restrostion videos they are pretty good & I know that after restrostion these Hot wheels are given to a four year old but I would really love to see a full 100% DETAIL Hot wheel RESTROSTION VIDEO
That blue really pops, I'd love to see that on a C2 Stingray or 67 Pontiac GTO, But it looks great on this firebird, great job 👍👍👍
A cool car, that came out pretty cool!
I think it looks really good, especially with what you started with.
Nice, almost hypnotic pace. Well done.
I think itlooks awesome. I saw the rear wheel looked a bit odd but its looking good. I used the screw driver handle for the tap. I had to drill it out but it worked great.
Great job!
Only change I would have made is to mask off the windshield to give it a purple frame to blend in with the chassis.
Always look forward to your videos! You are one of the best!
Nice work !
Very nice restoration. Congratulations from Brazil.
Excellent video!! I know that you mentioned that you polished the base off camera. Could you show a video that shows you polishing the base to give it that new look beautiful shine please? Thank you!
Thank you! I actually show some of this in the latest video. czcams.com/video/JRj_RJiUtFw/video.html
Nice restore👍
Excellent job 👏
I love this restoration. What I am curious about is why you do not use any body filler to take care of the deep divots for all the hard work you put into these cars? There is another gentlemen I came across who does similar restorations and he uses fillers which make a huge difference. Thanks for your great content!
I don'[t use filler with the Spectraflame paint because it would show through the paint. This type of paint is pretty transparent and show every tiny detail. Primer isn't an option because it will change the color.
Thank you for including the Amazon links. Nice finish!
Cool as always.😎👍 A white background, white colored rotating circle and more lighting would pop the toys more 😎👌🔥🏎️🚗
Nicely done!
Thank you!
Good work
Short of using putty and then chrome paint as a base, can't ask for much better than that! Looks good!
To RECHROMED rims try Molotow chrome pens! They’re fantastic!
I use them often and they are!
good job, and i bet you could fix the other imperfections later. dont forget use walnut shells, a little Ajax, to help in the vibratory. plastic pellets are good for media too.
Hey man I have watched a couple of your videos and I LOVE THEM. I am a mechanic and I love working on cars so I guess that's why I like these videos. I always had hot wheels as a kid and I lost a bunch of them. I wish I had all those I lost because I would restore them like you do. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel ! Keep up the good work man !
Thank you!
WheelsNThangs no problem brother! 👌🤙🤙
You should look at the electropolishing process baremetalHW uses. Super quick and easy and it will led you down the path of plating your own stuff. Even if i you do that already, the electropolishing is awesome.
I’ve used the process a few times but never show it on film. I will show it on some future videos.
Goodness gracious when I was a kid growing up back in the day the abuse we dealt out on these poor cars ! we all had our speciality torture for the poor car, mine was to crack it with my Louisville slugger across to the other side of the river and go retrieve it, and if you didn't make it then oh well you lost your car. I didn't loose many but your firebird made most of my hot wheels look like broken down pieces of diecast minus windshield glass of any kind lol
I think it turned out great and I still like the blue. Would like to see you do orange if that's an option.
I don't know if you using new camera or what but your paint job looked really nice considering body. Really love how that blue came out.
Thanks! No, same camera I'm just finally messing with the settings. It's a DSLR I've only had for a few months but never seem to get time to actually sit down and adjust.
I’ve been watching a lot of these videos lately and I really like your finished product with this specific paint over the other channels. Maybe they go too thin? You’re just end up looking very nice and new
Thank you! Some don't turn out that way though :)
Looks good
really enjoy your videos... i'm thinking of collecting hot wheels again... thinking...
It's satisfying watching this restorations. Gonna subscribe going to watch all your vidz
Thank you!
Finally a firebird! My grandpas and dads favorite car and my dads first.
Very nice
Wow amazing work very sweet paint job’ regardless of the metal imperfections love watching your red lines restoration videos’ Great vídeo bud ‼️‼️‼️😁👌🏼
Thank you!
You've really inspired me to want to restore a Redline Hot Wheels. I found a pretty cheap Custom Firebird online. Did you use the medium size wheels for the back and the small ones for the front? So many options on the Hot Wheels Redline Shop website.
I really appreciate and enjoy your videos and this one is no exception. My question is regarding the imperfections in the body like on the trunk area and wheel wells. Is it possible to apply a small amount of a body filler to those areas? I'd be the first to admit that it would be major overkill and impractical to do so but considering how much you have invested into a hobby that you obviously love, who is to judge what is overkill and impractical anyway? Thanks for the videos and keep them coming.
Wow, that's Bad !!! Whoa , beautiful , you are the Man,👍
It looks just like it would, brand new in 1968. Me and my guys in '69/70 would always say "yo' momma" jokes pointing the flaws out in brand new cars when we met up on Saturday afternoons. Stuff like, "yo momma can't drive she put a dent in your fender" or "yo daddy can't wax a car without damaging it" or "y'all got a new car discount because your window was cracked before you drove it home". One guy even bought a Custom Volkswagen missing a headlight and the other not molded correctly AND a wheel that would stay on because it was cracked in the bearing area. He got hazed real bad but we took care of him with a spare from another older car.
All those flaws give Hot Wheels itz character. The Firebird's trunk area always had waves in it. Mostly from the post being sandwiched down. Nice job !
Still a pretty car
It does look great
You should use a sandable primary And Du Pont products. after finishing it with a clear coat of 999 DU pont. For an excelente outcome.
I use it with normal paint but it would show right through the spectraflame.
On the base, have you ever tried a fine glass shot? It would make them look nice.
Hmm. Never have. I'll have to check it out!
Awesome video dude thanks it looks awesome your good at what you do
Hope you are doing well, you sound a little down. I like your video. I find them interesting.
Cool car. Love the Pontiac front end/grill. In the video, the first time the pit on the trunk is visible to us is during your dry sanding with 800 grit. At this stage, is it possible to fill that in with anything? Maybe a dab of JB Weld on a flat toothpick or something? And then file it down and re-sand?
You could fill it but it would show through on the spectraflame paint :(
@@WheelsNThangs Ok. I wasn't sure how it would polish up or if the zinc playing would cover it.
Would love to know if u do newer production of cars
Looks really nice...👍
I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you for making it. :)
I'm curious why you decided not to take the extra steps to do body work on the pits and wheel well with bondo, and or a small welder? Not a critique, just a question.
The paint is transparent so I can't use filler and you can only sand so much :(
I heard you mention another channel and motorcycle parts. Do you do full size restorations too? I would love to check out your other channel
I do but I haven't done one in awhile. A mini bike was the most recent but I usually deal with motocross bikes. If you look back a few years ago I've had a few complete builds. czcams.com/users/johnnysshop
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When you are painting the blue you mention about time compressing the coats, how long would it normally take? for each coat and inbetween?
5 minutes or so. Then let it dry for 48 hours or so.
I love the videos! I do have a question. Why do you not try to fill in the imperfections. I know nothing about restoring Hot Wheels so the answer may be simple.
Thank you! Unfortunately the spectraflame paint is transparent and would show through.
Looks fantastic! 👍
Awesome job!
Looks awesome to me!
Never realized how much different the Hong Kong's version is from the American version.
Nice Job
Looks great
Best work so far!😉
kool...A wish I had.....thanx
Well gee, imperfections? What do you want for a 50 year old casting? I love your work. I have 1 redline(?)that I want to restore. Its a Shelby AC Cobra and I found it in the basement of my old house. Its yellow and its really beat up. Unless you want to do it?
Nice job!
Ok got it. Its a Floor Care.....found it on the Web. 😉😎
I love it, I'm excited all over again, there's hope for us yet , 🤗😋😅🤣
The markers that you use: are they the oil-based markers? Water-based?
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Hello buddy, I'm from German and was asking myself what is this "Futer Shine"? Could you explain it a little bit for me? Thank you!
Liquid floor wax
What was the chemical that you dipped the windshield in?
Decent.
have you tried using some bondo to get rid of the imperfection on the body
Yes, you cannot use anything under Spectraflame paint it will show through.
And can you use sandpaper to get rid of decals
Car looks a million times better. For those divots, could you have used some sort of putty?
Thank you! Yeah, i could have but I can't use fillers with this type of paint because it will show through.