'70 Chevy Impala

[Slotto]

I picked this up at a show last month. It was a bag of parts in a gallon freezer bag. It had 3 wheels and the engine was missing. It was previously painted dark blue but had been stripped with the exception of the rear valance. 

I once again tried this crafy acrylic pea green metallic pearl. This time I mixed it up 4:1:1 alcohol, distilled water, paint and shot it at 30psi. It was a slow go but I got it done. Next I shot 3 coats of Duplicolor clear. Before paint, I did rub on the emblems with BMF. After, I removed the paint from the emblems with a mini q-tip drunk with alcohol. 

I darkened up the grill and wheels with a black wash and sprayed the interior gloss white. The wood grain is contact paper. I added a shift lever using a stick pin. 

[Mittagskind]

Looks good and thanks for explanations. Please tell me, what is "black wash", I don´t know that.

[Slotto]

28 minutes ago, Mittagskind said:

Please tell me, what is "black wash", I don´t know that.

Well, I use craft acrylic paints almost exclusively. What I do is squirt a drop of flat black into a bottle cap along with a healthy splash of water. I mix it up with a brush then wash the chrome parts to give them some depth. I'll let them dry and lightly go over the chrome that stands out with a stiff q-tip to reveal their shine.

[Mittagskind]

46 minutes ago, Slotto said:

Well, I use craft acrylic paints almost exclusively. What I do is squirt a drop of flat black into a bottle cap along with a healthy splash of water. I mix it up with a brush then wash the chrome parts to give them some depth. I'll let them dry and lightly go over the chrome that stands out with a stiff q-tip to reveal their shine.

Thanks Steve. I still didn´t know this technic.

[KWT]

Looking good Steve!

[cobraman]

Looks good ,cool color you selected. 

[customline]

Steve, I think you may have an alcohol problem ?.  I gotta follow this one; I have an itch to start my '70 Impala. I'm  kinda glad I didn't cut the roof off it ?. Paint looks great; at what point are you employing the "Scratch X"? Is it better than Novus for a final polish in your opinion? I know it's got to be cheaper.

[Slotto]

I'm new to buff and polish, I learn by doing and I make due with what I have on hand so, for this project I applied 3 coats of clear. Then sanded with 600, 1500 then 3000 wet. Then used Novus 2 followed by Scratch X. Both are probably close to the same thing, who knows? Then lastly i hit the body with lemon Pledge. This is what I ended up with. At a club meeting last month a fellow used a ceramic coating on his MGB. It was beautiful. You could see clear into next week with that finish. I'm looking into it.

[Slotto]

I'm calling the interior done. There was no seat back for the front bench so I fabbed one out of 2 pieces of scrap styrene and a skinny strip. I flocked the carpet and package tray and hand painted the dash and vents with flat black then detailed them with the 1mm chrome pen. I hand painted the simulated wood with brown enamel. Also added the turn signal lever from a piece of stick pin.

for giggles I wanted to see how the 2 colors play off of each other. I dont hate it.

Edited July 5, 2023 by Slotto

[Trendsetta68]

Nice!!!

[Rattlecan Dan]

Thats doing some fine work. Looks really nice.

[Slotto]

Got the steering and ride height under control. But 1st I made a wheel swap. On to the engine.

[Slotto]

found a tri-carb setup I had in reserve with linkage and fuel rail I'll employ on this build. Also bent up some exhaust pipes using the kit supplied mufflers. I could have used the kit supplied pipes but there's something satisfying about bending your own. Amiright?

[KWT]

Man this looking good. Dig those wheels and that stance

[jeffsmodelcars]

Maybe I missed it, but do you know if this is the AMT kit or the MPC? On the AMT, the middle taillight on each side is molded into the bumper and only the outer and the inner lenses are actually transparent red.

[Slotto]

As said before, there was no engine in the bag when I got this kit so I had to scratch build something from the bone yard. The headers are solder, the collectors and reducers are aluminum tubing with a home made distributor.

The stacks are wire ends I picked up from Amazon. They come in a variety of sizes. I plan to use the smaller ones as exhaust tips.

[mustang1989]

Superb work on the grill and the body looks great in that color Steve. 

[atomicholiday]

Great paint work.   I really like your color choices. 

What you're doing with the exhaust is impressive.   I'm inspired to give that a try sometime soon. 

[Slotto]

2 hours ago, atomicholiday said:

What you're doing with the exhaust is impressive.   I'm inspired to give that a try sometime soon. 

You have a absolutely nothing to lose. It's very gratifying and easier then you think. Small pliers is all you really need

[Zippi]

Nice looking Chevy.  I'm diggin the engine with the 3 deuce setup.  

[slusher]

Great headers and interior…

[Slotto]

Playing around with an old credit card...

 

 

[Slotto]

Got both hood hinges in place and they are doing their job

[Slotto]

Chassis is just about done. I made the x pipe from 12 gauge copper wire

[customline]

Kudos on the wheel choice.  I wish I could put 5 spoke mags on everything.  I guess I'm just stuck in the 60's. ?