In this video I restore a Matchbox No 70 Grit Spreading Truck that was sent in by a Subscriber who said it was buried in his back yard for 35+ years. This restoration is much different than restorations I have done in the past.
Using 2 coat of paints makes some details disappear, like the gas tank. What will you do about that........ I don't know...... Whoppss!!!........ Whoopsee!!! XD
Being a Hot Wheels guy (kid), I wasn't very happy when you started working on Matchbox cars. Well, between you and Marty, you have won me over and I am now enjoying this quite a bit. This was an amazing restoration considering what you started with. Keep up the good work!
You're the only channel that I don't feel the need to speed up the videos to 1.5x. Yours don't drag on, I'm always genuinely engaged and entertained by your work. Truly amazing stuff, great job.
Agreed on all counts. I'm tolerant of production standards that are "less than", since it's really about the castings, but I so appreciate the shows where the standards are "greater than" ... like this one!
Especially when some RU-vidrs have a 30-45 sec intro. I totally cleaned house on my subscriptions. Only people that are informative, funny and intelligent(without being a smart ass) are my RU-vidrs of choice. Thanks.
Always impressive to see you restore these things, but this one kinda blew me away. The clever use of plating in multiple stages, and to get something that looks that good from what you started with; Deeply deeply impressive, sir. Thanks for sharing the techniques also!
I have to say that I really like the way it looks in the opening sequence. Sitting on that circular platform with its worn look gives it a lot of charm. I wouldn't change a thing.
i I kinda agree with you because when you restore it you essentially make a new car and you can’t even tell it’s old. so I would want to keep it all original.
Wow the truck looks so good and thank you for mentioning how many coats of paint you used and it’s incredible the amount of new techniques that you use and experiment with have a great day.
Looks good. Cool trick with the soldering. You might consider trying it with RA flux to get it to flow better. I've seen a guy solder wire to an old stereo chassis by getting the flux to boil a little before adding the solder.
I think you did a great job on that registration I mean everything you could have done you did things like the Ford being corroded off of the front is simply unfixable on something that small of a scale and really I think you did a better job than most restorers could have done because I watch a lot of these videos I subscribed to a lot of channels and shockingly a lot of them don't use zinc plating and other techniques that you do so great job
I really think this is one of the best restorations you've done so far. From the welding to fix a broken part to entirely replacing another yet it not seeming out of place once put together was just great. And as much as I tend to like the effect the translucent-ish redline paints gives this paint felt a lot more appropriate for a toy. (Then again I wasn't around when hotwheels did their original redlines so perhaps those are spot on as well and I never noticed)
The end result is just awesom! Tour technics are top, you now are able to do almost anything to a casting to restore, from electropolishing, to plating and filling holes with actual metal and doing that making the product look like it would come from factory or sometimes even better! Congratulations mate, really good content!
I kinda actually liked it better when it was rusted up. Don't get me wrong, you did an awesome job, but the unique condition it was at when you found it looked like a truck you'd see on the side of a dirt road at an old abandoned farm. It looked really cool. The way the paint mixed with the oxidation.
I was just watching your corvette restoration so I clicked here. It is nice to know someone cares and is taking the time to restore these treasures..job well done! an add on here! how many have you done and could you show your collection?
Unfortunately you've lost all of the details on trucks body, but the overall effect is still pretty good. I think, this one was most difficult to work with.
Jed Ashford The details were pretty much completely gone BEFORE the restoration given how rusted it was. As he said, it was at the point where it was unpleasant to even touch because of how the rust had blended with the paint. The restoration is the only way that this toy could survive at all. The only think he could have done to save a little bit more detail would have been to use a little bit less red paint, but then all of the pitting would have shown up in the paint job.
I usually mod PCs and don't care about smaller things like toy cars but I learned a lot about them and learned a lot of techniques watching your videos. I was also able to restore one of my childhood toy cars so it will be loved for several more years. love ya m8 !!
i don't see the problem? that's a paycheck every 40 yrs. Sure the job might get harder, but luckily in 40 years a Truck like that can be 3D printed out with paint and wheels. XD
I just found this channel, didn't know so many people restored Hot Wheels/ Matchbox, I was a collector for years and have 25-30 old Hot Wheels redlines I debated doing something like this to. I have an early custom Camaro, beach bomb, Sky Show Fleetside ( minus the ramp) and a couple of car cases of them is various stages of disrepair
@@baremetalHW I just used your link and watched the homemade vacuum cylinder video. Holy crow! You sound like a teenager, although with the same speech patterns. That was fun🙂 This build was an amazing transformation.😃
@@baremetalHW Awesome 🙂 At first I thought...this is not you, then listened to it all. Too bad that we could not use those editing techniques, for our bodies...haha 😉
Huh. I had one of these. Probably got it not long after it came out. I remember putting salt in the back (real salt) to emulate the city's salt spreaders. I am 99% certain (keeping in mind that this was ~50 years ago) that the pull on mine was steel and was black. None of that plastic rubbish! :-D Windshield was plastic, of course, as steel windshields are silly. The pitting on this casting was crazy - nice work making it go away!
Just for information, I'm in the UK, the home of Lesney Matchbox and the two of these I have both have the metal pull in black. This is either a black metal or some form of anodisation it's definitely not painted.
Yes indeed great job! Concerning the small bending brake. I purchased one from the same outfit but had to return it. It came with no instructions and the small thumb screws were cross-threaded and impossible to turn without using pliers. How was yours? THANKS Tom
Found your channel less than a month ago. Binge watching it and this seems to be the most involved resto i've seen so far. On a scale of 1- to- 10, Mr Baremetal, where would you slide this around (10 being the most involved/craziest)?
Your videos are like therapy. One of the main reason why i subs to your channel is probably because of your voice, beside the awesome restoration work of course.
Have you tried pre-heating the metal before soldering to it? With it being that thick and massive, the tip alone won't be able to heat the metal to the right temperature for the solder to stick. This is actually a problem even with motherboards that have huge grounding plains.
@@haihoegaatet6963 My son was into Racegrooves and Mark would talk a lot about how people would modify their cars... I thought it would be fun to do some customs with my kid and one thing let to the next.
Super Easy Barely An Inconvenience! Screen Rant shout out for Pitch Meeting! Awesome! So you have a pitch for a youtube channel? Yes, sir, it is channel that restores Matchbox and Hot Wheels Cars. By restore, do you mean customize them? Well, yes, there is some of that but mostly fixing up really beat old cars, some of which are 50 years or more old. Aren't these cars inexpensive - like a few dollars and even cheaper on eBay, would people really want to restore them? Well, some are very rare and collectible and a lot of people enjoy watching the restoration process. OK, if you say so. Do you think people would actually follow that? It sounds very niche. Cut to image of 257,000 subscribers.
Really impressive work Sir. Your video's make me want to try it. I've got an airbrush and some flashy "house of kolor" paints so I may give it a try in the future. Edit: spelling.
Wonderful video. The painting process always ends up making it too thick. All the subtle details in the casting disappear. Is there another way to paint it with a finer spray or less coat?
