What OT crap are you working on

The bicycle looks great . Did the original paint colors come back or did you have to repaint it with a flat color paint ?A friend of mine bought a Panhead that had been sitting in a dirt floor garage for many years . He used aluminum foil and WD40 rubbed all the chrome pieces . His many hours of rubbing brought the chrome back . Although the pits are still there the rust stains came out . I myself use #0000 steel wool also .

 

Finished my C10. Been helping Gordie with his 29 PU, bought a ragged original Ca 69 Camaro, factory hugger orange. Working on getting the stance right before tearing it down. Have a mostly NOS LT 1 with NOS turbo heads and a TKX 5spd with a 12 bolt for it.

 

that's a bitchin camaro!

 

Cleaned up a Schwinn a couple years ago. Most of the chrome was covered in a peppering of rust. Knurling on the S-6 rims was probably the hardest, but most rewarding, to clear up.
Blew everything apart, cleaned it with mild detergent and the chrome with crumpled aluminum dipped in water.
Always amazed at how some of the most corroded looking chrome can still come back.

Water offers better conductivity, this isn't a mechanical cleaning it's a chemical reaction at the electron level.
SCIENCE!!!
Al is the sacrificial material to return the rust back into steel.
Also works on seat rivet heads and mild steel spokes which are always just ugly and splotchy. A bit of excessive rubbing on spokes tends to transfer a nice even layer that turns even the fugliest of steel spokes handsome.

Bar Keepers Friend is also a great go to for cleaning up chrome.

 

I'm going to try that aluminum foil and water trick on my 41 Cadillac Chrome. Now I know why I've been keeping so much of my used aluminum foil from all the burritos and tacos I bought...

and I bought a 20 year old Mustang yesterday for a pretty cheap price. No... it's not a GT nor a Shelby... But I couldn't pass it up for the price. and the radio and air conditioning even works! 173,000 mi on it.

 

Those "first year" retro Mustangs are gonna be worth money, some day!

 

What little bit of paint you see on it was apparently hiding on it. You couldn't see it until I sprayed the clear on it and then all suddenly it came out like magic. Normally I go pretty crazy getting everything prepped for paint but in this case I wanted it to look pretty old so after I rubbed everything with the steel wool I basically blew it off with the air compressor and then sprayed the clear on it so I really didn't have an idea that it was going to have quite a bit of red left. It's kind of a neat effect if I'm being honest I'm still a paint guy But I totally get why people go with patina lol.
As for the pits and the scratches all the chrome is still covered in them. I bought one of those little tubes of green buffing wheel polish at harbor freight I think they are two or three ounces and I spent probably an hour or so doing the cranks, The seat post and the handlebars.
If I ever do another bicycle (It's a matter of time I really know I will at some point) I think I want to do a adult size tribute to the muscle bikes from the 1960s and '70s. Bicycles are a nice change from the car projects that seem to never end. I can start off with garbage in the morning and excluding the paint drawing two or three hours later You can have a pretty cool bike.

 

My Old Hot Rod Bud passed a couple years ago had GT500, it was a scary ride . Son inherited it and sold it with in 3 months . Sad

 

Spent an hour putting off topic stuff in an on topic car. Android Auto strikes again....

 

You know the thing I like most about bikes is they keep your hands busy, just like a car project, but everything is light weight. And of course riding them.

 

My brother had a 95 GT. Always liked the early Retro Mustang from that era.

My neighbor picked up a nice v6 that a kid in the next town rolled when he hit an ice patch when it was two or three years old. No insurance so he got it cheap. Has the roof reskinned and the bent fenders hung, but the project is on the back burner. Said he was going to give it to his granddaughter when she got her license, but she’s probably close to 18 by now and the car still isn’t finished. Meanwhile, his 37 LaFayette and 37 Chevy are drivable at least.

 

That is one cool tractor!

 

That is one cool tractor!

 

Something strange in your rear view mirror !

 

Finally got my bike all back together and riding it so now maybe I can work on the Chevelle and the 56. Oh, and I'm trying to buy a 61 Impala to distract from what I should just be doing too... Good deals are hard to pass up.

 

I found this American Flyer about a month ago. Wheels and seat were completely rusted away. I built a seat and sissy bar, and added wheels from an old BMX bike. It rides pretty good.

 

There was a couple of years in my welding shop that I built a few "specialty" bicycles (built for specific purposes). I even spent some time working on a couple 3 wheel tricycles, even had a real bicycle rider take one on a 26 mile ride (it got a great review). But then the bicycle thing went away. My problem is, I haven't really ridden one much since I was a teenager, that was a few years ago...

It was a fun distraction for a while, sort of like the dozen or so racing lawn mowers, the 140 Desk Top Art Work little metal cars, and the 100s of crosses.

 

What a great project!

 

I’ve been doing maintenance on my 2000 GMC crew short bed 3/4 ton. I’ve had it 10 years and it was a stock farm truck when I got it. Did the 5/7 drop an C notch, helper bags. Billet grille. Square body 8 lug wheels and caps. Still stock 5.7 and 4L80.

 

Pulled this 76 Schwinn Stingray off a trash heap near Wheaton, Ill. Still has a registration sticker from Glen Ellyn, Ill, as well as the original dealer sticker.

Just cleaned it up, new chain and new tires/tubes. Had to step up for the raised white letter slick.

 

some one hacked open the radio opening in the Camaro dash. I welded up an aluminum plate and covered it with 3M wrap to match the rest of the dash. Beats buying a nice used one and I avoid repops when I can

 

Yeah, but ya gotta have some tunes....

 

I am completely a hands-on guy, bicycles are kind of what I cut my teeth on when I was 8 or 9 years old By the time I was 10 or maybe 11 I was an expert at installing bearings, patching tubes and typical stuff that a kid would have problems with on junk/2nd hand bikes. Back then it was a primary mode of transportation but today I do it because it's fun and being lightweight and fairly simple compared to a car is definitely a nice change.

 

Looks good- just put a blue tooth speaker under the seat and your phone in your pocket for tunes... works good but not traditional- I know......

 

I may do a remote type system but chances are this car will make plenty of sweet engine sounds.

 

Broken Water service , and started new roller paint job for Power Wagon

 

Made the power windows function on the camaro.. it's always fun working on wiring after some tweaker got ahold of it. After multiple splices and wiring in a bosch relay in place of the original fried unit they function. But not without collateral damage

 

I love that orange...one of my kids had an orange 70 for a while....

 

this is a 71 I built years ago. My kid learned to drag race in it at Carlsbad. I have always wanted a hugger orange 69 because the shell station I worked at in high school had one parked in front always. It belonged to my Friend Gil R.I.P a 69 Z with original paint , factory endura bumper. Bought new in San Diego. His boy still owns it