Hot Wheels Redline Restoration : 1967 Custom Firebird 

as a kid it was great to be able to have these toys of one's favorite cars. The condition prior to the restorations is a testament as to how much playability they have.

Great job guy! I had a red Custom Firebird back then. I'm still kicking myself after 40 years have passed that I gave my collection away like an idiot. BUT, I am in the process of getting them back again slowly but surely!

That's amazing. Could watch these all day.

Seeing past the small imperfections on the casting itself this thing came out sweet man. The windshield looks brand new!!! Missed some tail light details. Excellent work as usual. Good video 👍🏽

I feel as though you matched the color perfectly! Plus those dents may look bad in ones eyes, but I see them as how this car has survived 50 years

Your videos are really amazing and very inspirational, thank you for restoring such beautiful cars!

awesome restoration as Always!!! ;)

Love these restoration videos. I don't collect die cast at all, but I do appreciate the passion behind them!

my favourite redline casting... you did a great job! looks great!!

*Turned out awesome in my opinion, it survived 50 years let's see how far it makes it now*

Mate. It turned out really well? Mate. It's perfect. I personally like these small imperfections. It gives a certain quality. Keep up the great work. I love your videos. I am a youtube "surfer" and crushing on your videos made me a maniac of seeing all your work. Peace and respect from a Greek Canadian. 👌👌👌👍👍

One of my favorite red line casting. Great results

And here I am 3:13 in the morning wide awake watching your videos love the work keep it up!

Cada restaurador/renovador tiene su toque particular. El suyo es evidentemente la calidad del uso de la lija y el pulido y la fina terminación de la pintura. Un hermoso trabajo: gracias por compartirlo con nosotros.

Nice, almost hypnotic pace. Well done.

The car as a whole is awesome, you do some great work. Most of these cars when you get them look ready for the trash and you bring them back to life. Great job!

Firebird is one of my personal favorites

It looks PERFECT!!!

No matter the craftsman, artist, woodworker....we are always more critical of our own work that are others. This is a beautiful effort....I love these videos for a couple of reasons. (1) they are incredibly Zen-like and relaxing to watch; (2) they take us back to our childhood; and (3) for some miraculous reason, at 63, I still have all of my and my brothers 200+ Redline Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Johnny Lightning cars. I'm retired now, but between my decoy carving, backpacking the AT, and antique refinishing, mountain biking and fly fishing hobbies, I intend to restore a couple of my die cast cars. Thank you----extremely nice job on restoring what was always one of my favorite Hot Wheels!

I just found this exact casting yesterday at a thrift store for $1.99. The paint was a little rougher than yours but the hood, and wheels run great. I had to watch your video again.

Man! You're a tough critic on your own work. That thing looks new!

Thank you for including the Amazon links. Nice finish!

Very nice restoration. Congratulations from Brazil.

Excellent Restoration, like the way you did the posts with the larger bit first.

Always look forward to your videos! You are one of the best!

I'm not much of a craftsman and will probably never do a Hot Wheels restoration but I love watching vids like this. (Hoping some of your skill will rub off on my plastic modelling and airbrushing techniques!)

Super sweet restoration.

Excellent results. Thumbs up.

I think it looks really good, especially with what you started with.

Looks fantastic! 👍

Just when I'm about to call it a night here goes a blue beauty from you.

Awesome video dude thanks it looks awesome your good at what you do

haha just found your videos a couple of hours ago this is like watching a Bob Ross painting show getting all my old cars out to play

That blue really pops, I'd love to see that on a C2 Stingray or 67 Pontiac GTO, But it looks great on this firebird, great job 👍👍👍

Awesome job!

turned out great! I've been hooked on using the deep dish wheels on my restorations, really makes them pop. I too have not been having much luck with vibe tumblers either

Best work so far!😉

Nice work !

I'm happy its come this far too.

A cool car, that came out pretty cool!

Nice restore👍

Cool as always.😎👍 A white background, white colored rotating circle and more lighting would pop the toys more 😎👌🔥🏎️🚗

Another awesome restoration, i had a look at a couple of the links, it is really good, thank you once again for another fantastic restoration.

Excellent job 👏

Wow amazing work very sweet paint job’ regardless of the metal imperfections love watching your red lines restoration videos’ Great vídeo bud ‼️‼️‼️😁👌🏼

Nice job!

Looks really nice...👍

I think itlooks awesome. I saw the rear wheel looked a bit odd but its looking good. I used the screw driver handle for the tap. I had to drill it out but it worked great.

really enjoy your videos... i'm thinking of collecting hot wheels again... thinking...

Loving these videos, keep them up man! :)

I Always like your videos!

Hey man I have watched a couple of your videos and I LOVE THEM. I am a mechanic and I love working on cars so I guess that's why I like these videos. I always had hot wheels as a kid and I lost a bunch of them. I wish I had all those I lost because I would restore them like you do. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel ! Keep up the good work man !

It does look great

You watch motorcycle racing in background, while I watch you in background as I work on my motorcycle parts :)

Wow, that's Bad !!! Whoa , beautiful , you are the Man,👍

Nicely done!

Love it!

Short of using putty and then chrome paint as a base, can't ask for much better than that! Looks good!

Looks awesome to me!

Be very careful, I am now getting toy modification videos demonotized and failing manual review. It seems RU-vid are on the rampage or I'm the unluckiest producer on the site. My Dremil doesn't go that slow!

Looks great

Sir I have seen lots of your restrostion videos they are pretty good & I know that after restrostion these Hot wheels are given to a four year old but I would really love to see a full 100% DETAIL Hot wheel RESTROSTION VIDEO

It's satisfying watching this restorations. Gonna subscribe going to watch all your vidz

Finally a firebird! My grandpas and dads favorite car and my dads first.

Que padre restauración saludos

Good work

Nice Job

Like this vid👍

Good job.

Pretty cool car i like it man..🖐

Good video

I think it turned out great and I still like the blue. Would like to see you do orange if that's an option.

Great job! Only change I would have made is to mask off the windshield to give it a purple frame to blend in with the chassis.

good job, and i bet you could fix the other imperfections later. dont forget use walnut shells, a little Ajax, to help in the vibratory. plastic pellets are good for media too.

I’ve been watching a lot of these videos lately and I really like your finished product with this specific paint over the other channels. Maybe they go too thin? You’re just end up looking very nice and new

Looks good

Still a pretty car

Very nice

👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

I really appreciate and enjoy your videos and this one is no exception. My question is regarding the imperfections in the body like on the trunk area and wheel wells. Is it possible to apply a small amount of a body filler to those areas? I'd be the first to admit that it would be major overkill and impractical to do so but considering how much you have invested into a hobby that you obviously love, who is to judge what is overkill and impractical anyway? Thanks for the videos and keep them coming.

Actually it's Perfect!

She's a beauty.

Lovely..

Sweetness!!

You've really inspired me to want to restore a Redline Hot Wheels. I found a pretty cheap Custom Firebird online. Did you use the medium size wheels for the back and the small ones for the front? So many options on the Hot Wheels Redline Shop website.

Mi color favorito 😍

I love it, I'm excited all over again, there's hope for us yet , 🤗😋😅🤣

Nice the firebird🖒🖒🖒😎😎😎

Excellent video!! I know that you mentioned that you polished the base off camera. Could you show a video that shows you polishing the base to give it that new look beautiful shine please? Thank you!

Ok got it. Its a Floor Care.....found it on the Web. 😉😎

I don't know if you using new camera or what but your paint job looked really nice considering body. Really love how that blue came out.

Awsome

It looks just like it would, brand new in 1968. Me and my guys in '69/70 would always say "yo' momma" jokes pointing the flaws out in brand new cars when we met up on Saturday afternoons. Stuff like, "yo momma can't drive she put a dent in your fender" or "yo daddy can't wax a car without damaging it" or "y'all got a new car discount because your window was cracked before you drove it home". One guy even bought a Custom Volkswagen missing a headlight and the other not molded correctly AND a wheel that would stay on because it was cracked in the bearing area. He got hazed real bad but we took care of him with a spare from another older car. All those flaws give Hot Wheels itz character. The Firebird's trunk area always had waves in it. Mostly from the post being sandwiched down. Nice job !

To RECHROMED rims try Molotow chrome pens! They’re fantastic!

Decent.

I love this restoration. What I am curious about is why you do not use any body filler to take care of the deep divots for all the hard work you put into these cars? There is another gentlemen I came across who does similar restorations and he uses fillers which make a huge difference. Thanks for your great content!

nice.

even better than original

Well gee, imperfections? What do you want for a 50 year old casting? I love your work. I have 1 redline(?)that I want to restore. Its a Shelby AC Cobra and I found it in the basement of my old house. Its yellow and its really beat up. Unless you want to do it?

You should look at the electropolishing process baremetalHW uses. Super quick and easy and it will led you down the path of plating your own stuff. Even if i you do that already, the electropolishing is awesome.