johnyrotten

Hope your Thanksgiving was good, very nice job on the gto, I've got the same year one to build someday. Classy looking ford, it looks like it'll clean up nicely.

I've saved the glass. About a half hours worth of work. 12000 grit paper, wet and a drop of dawn dish soap for lubricant. Sanded both sides, as it had scratches on both outside and in, of course. Followed up with meguiars plastic x on a pad, and then on a micro fiber. The pads are mildly abrasive, so it acts like an intermediate step. I think one more polishing and it will be back to original.

There's always that chance, as I've learned with anything I've built, that you will find the weak link. On a nutshell, that's what hot rodding, and drag racing is. Make it fast, see what breaks, improve, repeat. That yoke may have just used up its service life, or you happened to find just the right combination to make it fail. I used to work in industrial maintenance, and failure modes are valuable information for adjusting p.m. schedules and increasing up time.

Tarps bake them to death as well. And create mold factories. Sucks to hear about the jaguar

Scary stuff indeed. I've heard about things like this.

If I fail with the glass, I may try some clear acetate, yet another thing I haven't done before. I've polished headlight lenses on 1:1 vehicles, so I have a clue how to go about it. For the chrome, I'm on the fence with molotow, I would like to try bmf, but I've seen where people had problems with the amazon sourced. Something about its age, and coming folded. I've seen 2-3 other products people used, I really want something that will be reasonably tuff. Or something I can top coat with minimal issue.

Looking good, what did you use for the "inserts" on the seats, I've been hunting for ideas with materials

They all go through ebbs and flows, look at mopars In the early 90's. They were cheap, the restoration craze really took off, big dollar cars were found, saved, and the market boomed. A hemi car or daytona brings big money, and all the "sibling" cars down the line go up as well. A bodies were dirt cheap, try and buy a decent dart for "little" money now. They want way too much for a Cuda or charger, seems like c-bodies are the only one's not too crazy, but those are a different animal. I looked at this dart before the world shut down, it was gone underneath, wanted 6500.

That's walmart for you. I'm in the same boat, it's five minutes away, I drive 20 to hobby lobby. Funny how some store have and others don't. Must be a regional thing, or like your case, up to some Karen, I mean manager.

I been around racecars almost all my life, grew up drag racing, both my hometown track and traveling the east coast. I've gotten to see all kinds of damage, breakage, abuse ect. Being a welder, I understand the forces, stresses, strains that things undergo. Not an expert by any means, but know more than average. That yoke seen a ton of torque, your clutch didn't slip, so it found the weak point. It probably got interesting pretty quickly.

New wheels/tires for the gto and engine for the nova

I no longer drive like an jerk, and leave the fast stuff for the track. Too expensive when tickets/insurance start stacking up.

I did something similar being an idiot on the street, going into a corner(40 or so,city street) went from 3rd to second under boost, (holset on a vr6 vw) and inside cv had enough. Instant neutral. I was an idiot as a kid, learned lessons the hard way.

Very true. I'm wondering if, at some point, the product is either going to change enough to be junk, or go the way of model master after rustoleum bought them. I have use some vallejo products, and have read good things about them.

"Stunned"

Started polishing the "glass", no pics of that, one scratch is deep, I can catch a fingernail. That's bad enough to warrant repair/ replace on machined surfaces, not sure if it's worth the work on this. Also stripped the chrome, it's horrible. Half of it shows the red plastic, flash, ect. Smoothed out some low spots on the front bumper, those files are awesome. Left it polished. I'm sold on them.

Torque will do that.

One of my favorite cars of all time. Very nice.

Looks great, foil is my next endeavor after polishing the scratches out of the windshield.

Anyone else see anything about this? I briefly read an article that popped up on my phone, guess it's going on for a few days now. https://www.rascal.news/vallejo-factory-workers-go-on-strike/

Thanks, I wanted a challenge and found it. I've got to polish out some scratches on the "glass", this kit has a bit of everything going on.

I call it being human. We've all had our ups and downs, sometimes something as simple as a ride or ten minutes of your time can mean the difference for someone. Those that take advantage of kindness or generosity, well you can guess how I feel. Just gotta choose wisely. I've got a similar friend, almost twice my age, she just has way too much on her plate, and some things they are just not physically able to do.

Thanks, there's a ton of "first" on this project. I look for a bit of information, and go for it. I've jumped in with both feet, you could say.

Is this based off the vega?

I've had 4 vw's, more my thing. Honda seems to me like the g.m. of the import world, they do everything with them, and and they take a beating. Vw on the other hand, a bit more technical, and temperamental. My last 1.8t was 370ish horse, became a headache to daily drive. Got smart, bought a truck. I leave them alone now, I Iike reliable transportation.