'66 Fairlane promo rehab...

[ChrisBcritter]

...or "Even my slumpbusters have slumps."

I picked up this '66 Fairlane back in August 2018:

A bit grungy, with worn chrome and an amateur two-tone and stripe job, but savable. I dismantled it and removed the black paint, which was a major struggle - a LOT of rubbing with Testors ELO stripper finally got it all. Fixed the tweaked left taillight and touched them both up with the Molotow pen, replaced the missing gearshift, then stripped the front and rear bumpers to send out to Chrome-Tech USA.

Well, we all know what happened then. After CT went paws-up, I shelved the thing until GT Kustom Krome came back on the scene; I sent out the bumpers in early October and got them back this afternoon. 

So here we are - the stripes aren't perfect but they're original:

Thanks for looking! 

Edited November 25, 2019 by ChrisBcritter

[donb]

Looks nice to me. Much better w/o the stripes. Chrome looks good too. Nice little restore. 

[PappyD340]

Nice save, looks good!!

[Tom99]

Nice save!!

[Snake45]

Beautiful work, and a true restoration. Well done and model on! 

[ChrisBcritter]

Thanks everyone! And a shout-out to George Hernandez at GT Kustom Krome. He received the bumpers on October 7th and I got them back November 25th; the new chrome looks terrific. In the future I'll be sending him just a couple items at a time so it won't tie up too many projects at once. 

Now back to the '65 Nova, I promise... 

[Ron Hamilton]

Very nice!!!

[Geno]

Love those 66/67 Fairlanes, they were beautifully styled cars.