GlennCraven Posted November 13, 2013 Report Posted November 13, 2013 Some of us were discussing "Fast N' Loud" in the thread about the '50 Sportabout. I saw this 1957 Chevy recently on an episode of "The Car Chasers." It was originally a pretty fair black car with good chrome. Quote
DJ194950 Posted November 13, 2013 Report Posted November 13, 2013 Sorry, sad! Reality shows? BS show/Comedy/ made for tv? Would never watch, Except- not much else on at times. Just my 2 cents! Doug Quote
Don Coatney Posted November 13, 2013 Report Posted November 13, 2013 Another successful job of taking the "real" out of reality. Should be called the ity show. 2 Quote
pflaming Posted November 13, 2013 Report Posted November 13, 2013 Don't watch them much. Friday evening some show from Texas. Four teams four cars. All farmed out most everything, fixed the bodies and sold them. Not much to learn from them and in my opinion give a false picture of what the reality of fixing up an old car is. 1 Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted November 14, 2013 Report Posted November 14, 2013 Just a joke to watch most of those shows. No common thread between reality and none reality with the clowns working on the cars. Cars that are put together in two weeks and sell for multiple thousand upon thousand of dollars. Monkey garage and they have the name correct for that outfit. No body could operate a show like this and still come out ahead if they were not paid big bucks to do so. End of story! Quote
GlennCraven Posted November 16, 2013 Author Report Posted November 16, 2013 So should I take it this finish probably won't be repeated on one of our Mopars soon? I thought it was horrible. I wanted to see what others thought before stating my opinion. Quote
Dave72dt Posted November 17, 2013 Report Posted November 17, 2013 Referring to the '57, you won't see me doing a finish like that. I have bare steel when I'm working on them but that's it. It's nice for showing off metal finishing skills so maybe that's the point. They could take some pictures of it metal finished, put some color on it and accomplish the same thing. The light reflections on the panels tell me it's not that straight or they ran the clear big time. Quote
GlennCraven Posted November 18, 2013 Author Report Posted November 18, 2013 Referring to the '57, you won't see me doing a finish like that. I have bare steel when I'm working on them but that's it. It's nice for showing off metal finishing skills so maybe that's the point. They could take some pictures of it metal finished, put some color on it and accomplish the same thing. The light reflections on the panels tell me it's not that straight or they ran the clear big time. The actually used a grinder to make patterns on the metal, then sealed THAT in under clear coat. And in the reflected light on the hood it seems there are ripples or imperfections of some sort, unless that's just optical illusion. I just couldn't believe they took smooth, bare metal and chewed into it with a grinder to get that patterned effect. Though, I saw the same thing done this week to the back of a stainless steel cook unit in a Burger King in Illinois. Gave it sort of a circular-brushed look that I'm assuming is intended to hide fingerprints and keep the large, flat, visible panel from needing cleaned so often. Quote
Mark D Posted November 18, 2013 Report Posted November 18, 2013 Looks to me to be a perfect starter car to do an actual restoration... Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted November 18, 2013 Report Posted November 18, 2013 Take it to Maco for a 39.95 paint job!!! Quote
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