Gotta see this one! 1970 Nova SS revival by Tru Shine

[Tru_Shine]

While I was in down in Murfreesboro TN, I had a customer contact me about reviving a numbers matching 1970 Chevy Nova SS. This car was very important to the customer as it belonged to his father who had passed away. So I knew that I wanted to give this car the care and treatment that would make his father proud.

This car had been setting in storage for quite some time, and definitely needed some TLC. here is what I was working with.

Using Meguiars Super Degreaser, I sprayed the white walls and gave them a heavy agitation to remove the yellowing.

Next I pre-rinsed the car to dislodge any of the heavy and loose debris.

 

[Tru_Shine]

The customer had requested that I remove the chrome trim (non factory) that was hanging off around the windows

It was held on by 3m tape so it wasn't to hard to get off.

The passenger side was the same way

The car was covered in a yellow over spray all over. so I had to bring out the Red Medium clay magic clay.

Here is what the paint looked like under the halogens

I pulled the car out to see how it was coming along

 

[Tru_Shine]

This paint was EXTREMELY soft, so for the cutting process I used a LC tang pad and D300, and to polish it out was a LC Crimson pad and OPT finishing polish II.

To seal the paint I used Black Fire Wet Diamond on a LC Red Finishing pad

While that was curing, I polished out some of the pitting on the chrome bumpers and mirrors.

These are actually little rust pits in the surface of the chrome, I used some #0000 steel wool and Bushes aluminum polish as lube.

Here are the Final Sun Shots

 

[Tru_Shine]

Thanks for viewing, Have a blessed day.

-Eric Witt

 

[alko]

O......M......G......you did an AWESOME job! This car is so beautiful!!!

 

[CaneCharger]

That is ba!!!!!

 

[timaishu]

Nice!

 

[JRivers]

Boss!!

:dblthumb2:

 

[embolism]

that is crazy good!

 

[Mike McDonald]

Wow! That looks amazing!

 

[mbkite]

Outstanding you are a true professional

 

[kimtyson]

Classic beauty! An excellent resurrection (using BobbyG quote, here). Any interior shots, for nostalgic reason? Great work!!

 

[HotRodJoe]

That Nova is awesome looking now...it was obviously a high quality build car beforehand, now you've finished it appropriately!

 

[ArkayoDeetayo]

You've done daddy proud

 

[NYCLR3]

unreal

 

[roguish-desires]

Stunning! Awesome job!

 

[shoeless89]

I was in Knoxville this past weekend!

 

[Driwash]

Outstanding correction. You have make it into a show car. Great attention to detail.

Tom

 

[Ron Atchison]

Now I'm impressed. Your other work is very good but most of the cars are pretty new and not so bad. But this one shows your skill that 50/50 shot was over the top! Great job!

 

[BobbyG]

Hi Eric,

It's always great to see a classic muscle car like this gorgeous 1970 Nova SS 350 taken through the paces from the ground up! rops:

After looking at the first photo I was sort of scratching my head because in that photo it looked very good. as I began to go through the rest, it was easy to see it needed some well deserved attention.

The before and after shots are incredible and I can't believe how gorgeous the paint and everything else for that matter came out!

I like using Meguiar's Super Degreaser allot! I bought a gallon of Amazing Roll Off and while it does work it's very expensive in comparison to Meguiar's Super Degreaser but I'm not sure if it as versatile...

For reference:

Meguiar's Super Degreaser - $15.00 / gallon
Amazing Roll Off - $25.00 / gallon

Absolutely incredible work Eric!! rops: rops: