To all my subscribers that celebrate Christmas I want to wish a very happy and safe holiday... and a very very Merry Christmas! In this video I will be restoring a Hot Wheels 1968 J-Car I bought for about 2$ at a local diecast show.
Love your videos! Got into them when i found my father's old matchbox collection and set out to find and replace them all with new ones, and your tutorials on restoring methods has really helped me make a sizeable dent!
You mentioned that you really didn't know the history of this car in real life but this would have been the machine done up in the classic blue-and-orange Gulf Oil livery. I'm old enough to remember these cars AND the "Hot Wheels" cartoon real time. Keep up the good work.
The baby blue and orange were gt 40s raced in 68 and 69. The j car was never raced. Ken Miles was killed testing the j car when the rear body came off. The car was repaired to ford mk4 specs and raced that way.
I bet the hoods don't have very good continuity when you pid them in your electro-polisher as they aren't part of the rest of the body that you always fully "ground", try and see if attaching an additional alligator clip to the hoods' under sides take care of the issue.
Really gorgeous looking Ford J-Car! Looks exactly the way it did when it was first packed into the box 50 years ago! Now it's ready to race down the track once again!!
You've inspired me to start practicing restoring old toy cars so that one day, I'll feel confident enough to restore the old ones from my childhood that really deserve to look new again
Excellent job!!... Well done!!... That orange is almost perfect colour match for my high class whisky, which i use for this Channel!!.. Happy Christmas!!... Cheers!!.
Fantastic as always. I wish I could do this. I have restored furniture, so I understand how bringing something back to it's original form is so awesome.
I have a whole bunch of old hot wheels and matchbox cars from the 60s and 70s from when my dad was young. A lot of them look like these restoration projects. I wish I had the time to work on them like you’ve done! Great stuff!
Great work, though I'm not a big of orange, this actually impressed me. Great color, it made the stickers stand out. Can't wait to see what you got in store next.
I've been watching a lot of these restoration videos lately. My favorites are the ones (like this one!) of cars that I had myself when I was a kid. This one turned out beautifully! I'm thinking of taking up this hobby myself. As nice as the paint looks, I'd love to do a couple shiny, unpainted ones. Thanks for sharing your work!
You inspired me to start restoring old models as well. Trail and error, that is how I learn. My first car had to be painted 3 times before it came out ok.
I think the extra polishing added a nice touch to the finish. Makes the orange pop, and adds just that little extra to the shine. Great job, the extra work pays off imho. Happy and safe holidays to you and yours.
That's a great result! I think the step where you polished it before painting made a big difference - usually I see scratch marks from the steel wool on the roof, but it looks like you polished those away here.
That little car looks great! A very nice restauration. Merry Christmas and a happy newyYear to you, your family and all the subscribers here, where ever they live. Greetings from Germany
This was my favorite car as a kid, after watching your videos, I'm hoping I can find my old collection somewhere in storage, if I do, I'm going to go through the old backpack full of cars I had and start restoring them.
Your restoration videos have legitimately helped me to restore some old die-cast Machine Men/Gobots figures and the die-cast on vintage Transformers. Even though I'm not a Hot Wheels guy (or a car guy in general), it's always interesting and... well, helpful to watch your videos! Keep on makin' these, mate. I'll keep watching!
Many thanks for all the great videos throughout the year. I hope that you have a very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!!! Best of luck in 2019, Joe
I'm certain I used to have a blue one of these when I was a kid except on mine the rear hood opened up and there was a metal engine inside. Your restoration looks amazing by the way. If I find any old redlines in a box in my attic, I'm sending them your way.
that orange is sooo nice! and that was a windshield resto 101! great work and happy holidays, hopefully you get a stocking full of banged up matchbox and hot wheels!!
Nice work!! I love the Grand Prix cars in orange! I have an original ford j in orange that is in excellent shape. Mine has a little wedge like most ford j cars but the engine lid has no post to catch the block, like the early ones with no block and a full transmission.
Love the orange - very cool color. Your videos bring back lots of memories. My brother and I probably destroyed half of the cars you have restored (hey - maybe we have contributed some of the cars you have been working on - always glad to be of service... :). Thanks for the videos and the detailed voiceovers!
Nice to see you back doing another classic Hot Wheel restoration. In some of your more recent videos you seemed to be gravitating to older Matchbox cars like what Marty does on his channel. While I do enjoy those too, I feel like your gift is working with Hot Wheels, and those videos are where you really shine.
You mentioned using Lime Away instead of your electro polishing setup, I'm just curious if ZEP would work as well? Its a lot stronger though and I was curious if it would cause damage/discoloration to the metal?
