BUILD THREAD Project Olds Cool (Recognition!!)

Rktpwrd

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Okay okay, I know I said yesterday that I was gonna take tonight off, and while not entirely untrue, I did still get some work done - just not in the paint department on the body itself.

With the “B” pillars now in paint and the rest of the openings soon to follow, tonight I grabbed the vertical sections of the weatherstrip channels and started cleaning them up. These will be next to go on very shortly, so it was time to get on them.

Other than fighting with getting all the old adhesive and remnants of old ‘strip removed from inside them, they normally wouldn’t need much. They’re stainless steel and would’ve been fine once the crud was cleaned out of them, but this is me and I don’t seem to ever take the easy way out.

I plan on painting these, so they received a thorough scuff and prep with red Scotchbrite and 400 grit on the edges that are gonna be visible. When I did this same procedure on The Juggernaut I had the pieces powder coated satin black, but this is more of a budget oriented build. I already have some satin black left over from doing the grilles on The ‘Naut, so I’ll use that to shoot these.

Why paint them if they’re already stainless you ask? It’s because the whole point in painting the “B” pillars gloss black is to fool the eye into not noticing the pillars at all. The gloss black will match the black tint of the side and quarter glass windows, and painting these weatherstrip channels satin black will have them closely matching the sheen of the window weatherstrip. If I left them shiny stainless steel, they’d stick out like a sore thumb and defeat the purpose.

So there you have it, the cat is outta the bag as to why I painted the pillars black. It’s been part of the master plan all along, but there was no real point in trying to explain it long before I got to this stage.

Here’s the pieces all prepped up, wiped down and ready to go:

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Tomorrow night I will get to shooting the rest of the window openings, fingers crossed that everything goes well and I don’t run into any issues. Either way I’ll post up pics of them when they’re done. Hopefully I can get these channel pieces painted soon after.

As always, thanks for following along. Things are happening at a pretty good clip now!

D.
 
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Agreed, the pillarless look is the way to go,cars flow much better that way. I did the same with vinyl a while back on another of my builds. Sorry for the import inclusion in your thread on American muscle. :whistle:

 
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Rktpwrd

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I dig the "pillarless" look.

I agree. I guess that’s one advantage I have over the later and more popular ‘81 and up Cutlasses, the “B” pillars are recessed into the body on these making it possible to do it to them.
There’s gotta be SOME advantage to building these less liked early G bodies!

Agreed, the pillarless look is the way to go,cars flow much better that way. I did the same with vinyl a while back on another of my builds. Sorry for the import inclusion in your thread on American muscle. :whistle:


Well, I guess I can forgive your indiscretion this time.... as its actually a really good example of the look.
;)
Thanks for posting that up!

For everyone else, I had an unexpected and pleasant day off from work today (pretty slow around the shop), so I came home and made good use of it.
Sneak peek:

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More and better pics to follow this evening after I get it unmasked.
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mmmmmm that looks like glass. I am such a sucker for white or charcoal cars and you are doing both in one !

However I struggle with what part of the car I am looking at. I want to say its the bottom of the b-pillar on the PS under the side window with the door open but my brain tells me I am wrong as I dont see the window channel.
 
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Rktpwrd

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Well here ya go fellas, the pics of the window openings and “B” pillars in completed paint.
Not gonna type a lot of text in this post, just going to let the pics speak for themselves.

Let me know what y’all think.

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Unfortunately it’s cloudy, grey and drizzling here right now, so no pics out in the bright sunshine yet. But it’s supposed to be nice on the weekend, so maybe I can get some then.

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Rktpwrd

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mmmmmm that looks like glass. I am such a sucker for white or charcoal cars and you are doing both in one !

However I struggle with what part of the car I am looking at. I want to say its the bottom of the b-pillar on the PS under the side window with the door open but my brain tells me I am wrong as I dont see the window channel.

Thanks Axis.
I’m extremely pleased with how it came out. I guess you shoulda listened to your instinct and not your brain because you were spot on with guessing what that area was!

Here’s the same area now unmasked and taken just a bit further back:

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I like it. It is one of those small details that will change the look of the car in a good way.
 
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Rktpwrd

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Looks great Donovan...I'm going to like the scheme your going with!

No worries, and thanks Kevin. I’m glad you approve and are liking the direction I’m heading with the car. I’ve had the vision for how it’s to look when it’s all said and done in my head for over a year now.
It’s gratifying to see the progress finally moving towards making that vision a reality after all this time.
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