Classic

[imported_JoshVette]

This is a 57 Chevy Bel Air, with a Supercharged 327. It's been fully restored and is simply a beauty.



The owner wanted it fully polished as it will be on display for a few months at one of the local Dallas Chevrolet Delerships.



I absolutely love the color on this car, I think it is stunning. Total time from start to finish, a little over 9 hours.:buffing:



First to start off with the engine bay. It was dirty, but needed a little sprucing up.

Process:

All chrome cleaned with Dirtex and MF towel

All hoses and tubes were cleaned with 303 and then darkened up with Zaino Z16 tire gloss.

Not much to clean on the engine, but did what I could.

The big sucker, literally.

Ceramic coated LT headers

radiator area clean

Now onto the two tone blue interior which also was pretty clean and only in need of a little sprucing up.

Process:

Dusted everything

303 wipe down

Vacuumed

Chrome shined up

Will a Moderator please change this title to, Classic Muscle Car, 57 Chevy Bel Air Supercharged, thanks.





Next up paint correction and two shots of Zaino......

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

Fax me a memo when you get your TPS reports done and dont forget that new cover sheet.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

The car has been restored and the paint is clear coated, but had some swirls.



Process:

Wash,

Clay

Polish via Makita Rotary with LC white pad and Menz IP at 1500rpms only needed one pass.

Zaino ZAIO

Zaino Z5



Some pics of a thorough washing and rims being cleaned first.

Here you can see the dirt and brake dust inbetween the rim and beauty ring.

Large Qtip does the trick to get the results I'm needing.

Qtip getting dirty doing it's job

Dirty removed, still wet though

Next onto the claybar

dirty car

Now that the car is clayed, time to move onto polishing the paint.

Here's a few pics of the swirls and holograms.

before

after

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after

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after

Now onto some glamour shots.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Now that the car is fully polished I ZAIO'd it to remove any lubes left behind from the Menz IP. After the ZAIO I gave it some Z5 and it's slicker then warm butter.:bigups





Some glamour shots.



Just look at that beautiful blue metallic paint. Gorgeous.

close up of the flake

hood bullets

I love the back end of these old Chevy's

Thanks for looking.

Any qusetions and comments are welcome.



Josh

 

[Old Pirate]

Josh all i have to say is AWESOME work my friend, Attention to detail and a perfect shine that 57 Chevy has! Perfect.......:drool:......Angelo

 

[Pats300zx]

Nice work on a true classic...:clap:

 

[gmblack3]

Josh, Your skills and a nice paint job = :spot

 

[red4.8]

That car is sick, great job. Where did you get the big Qtip's?

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Beautiful indeed.

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

What I just dont flipping get why someone would accept their car from whomever with halos like that. Even further, who doing the work says, yup thats a good job!!





The car is freaking amazing as is your work.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Angelo, Pat and Bryan, thanks for the kind words, it sure is a great looking car, lots and lots and lots of chrome to hand polish though, but it turned out nicely.:woohoo:

 

[imported_JoshVette]

That car is sick, great job. Where did you get the big Qtip's?

Honestly, somebody gave them to me, but the package says S100 on it if that tells you anything. I rarely use them, but they were greatly useful on this job. I usually use the smaller Qtips, but they were just too small for this job.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

What I just dont flipping get why someone would accept their car from whomever with halos like that. Even further, who doing the work says, yup thats a good job!!





The car is freaking amazing as is your work.

William, I don't understand your very very first post up at the top? ...... check it out.:funnypost



Now about the question, I don't know either, my only guess is they just don't see it when they get it (maybe they just stand back and see if the paint is shiny or not), and or most people really don't inspect their cars paint like we do, and or they think it's just a part of the way paint turns out since it's so previlent on cars these days.



I liked doing this car even though there really was a lot of chrome everywhere....:grinno:

 

[Brian_Brice]

Awesome Josh!

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Awesome Josh!

Thanks, I had this 57 Chevy and then that 60 Ferrari back to back in the same week. Kind of cool, but tiring with all that chrome trim and hand polishing between the two, by time I finished them all my arms look like Popeye the Sailer.....:xyxthumbs

 

[Paulie Walnuts]

William, I don't understand your very very first post up at the top? ...... check it out.:funnypost



Now about the question, I don't know either, my only guess is they just don't see it when they get it (maybe they just stand back and see if the paint is shiny or not), and or most people really don't inspect their cars paint like we do, and or they think it's just a part of the way paint turns out since it's so previlent on cars these days.



I liked doing this car even though there really was a lot of chrome everywhere....:grinno:

You posted that you could not get the thread completed and I was being a smart a$$ about it. Its a line from Office Space.

 

[BLKSWAN]

That color looks really good Josh...nice work once again

 

[Way2SSlow]

I've always liked those cars. Nice work. Been on a few power tours huh? That's really cool that he actually drives the car. I like it!

 

[imported_JoshVette]

You posted that you could not get the thread completed and I was being a smart a$$ about it. Its a line from Office Space.

Oh, I got it.

Well, I've been having trouble getting a thread started lately and someone said to try a one word title and sure enough it worked, but now I can't change the title??



Oh well.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

I've always liked those cars. Nice work. Been on a few power tours huh? That's really cool that he actually drives the car. I like it!

Yea, you'd be surprised at what some of these retired guys do with there old cars, he even takes it to the drag strip every now and then....







"That color looks really good Josh...nice work once again"

Blkswn, thanks, it really is a great color, one of my favorites.