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!

Great video 👍

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.

Love the videos and love to see how passionate a collector you are and the work that goes into restoring these gems

Merry Christmas. Your videos are always a treat to watch.

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!!

It looks brand new! I am amazed out how nice it looks. Thanks for sharing this and have a Merry Christmas.

Marry Christmas Eve god bless you and your family I love the videos keep up the good work 😊

Truly the best gift for Christmas. Merry Christmas BaremetalHW!

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.

You can see in the before shots, the back seems to have already been discolored, so that might explain why it looked like it after electropolishing it

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!!.

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

I will never learn to polish and recover an old hot wheels car but yet I still watched the full length of this video

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.

Sweet looking color! The zink plating looks good. Sounds like a good way to make sure the car last. :)

J-Car... one of my favorites! Nice job on it.

Great job. Thanks again for sharing. Love all your videos.

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 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!

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'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!

Yet another excellent resto! Awesome job!

What a treat! Thank you for the holiday update

You missed a spot to paint black, its right above the other black part on the back.

holy crap that colour came out absolutely gorgeous

Wow! Now that's what you call a restoration.

Love the redline-orange combo, looks great. Cool car body too! Merry Christmas!!

Excellent job. Two thumbs up!

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.

Stunning job!

always did and always will love these small cars and trucks and more ... thanks and have a good x-mas .. †

Fantastic resto, well done!

We found this one in blue on a Flea Market! It's a very nice car!

Love the color! Looking forward to seeing your Sweet 16 set!!

Oh my god!!!! That orange looks amaaaaazing!!!!

Gorgeous work !!

That "play in the bearings" is my favorite part of these things.

That orange spectraflame looks great. Like a brand new penny.

That is an absolutely gorgeous Ford GT40. Thank you so much for sharing, and have an amazing Christmas!

Sweet!! That’s one I’d want as a kid. So cool

Turned out really great, thanks again from South Africa

Very happy I found your videos this year. Thanks - and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! That is a stunning result! Loved the shine from the additional polish before paint. That windshield turned out looking brand new.

Great work. Very good restoration

That's an amazing colour. Nice job overall.

Cool job and colour combo

Stunning resto. Can’t wait to see more. Merry Christmas RLRD

That window thou!👌👌✌

Excellent restoration!

Nice work once again. Car looks great.

Nice Job! The zinc plating you do gives a great finish..

This turned out very cool! Love the orange color. 😎

Beautiful job as usual.

Great restoration custom , l love that orange colour 👍

Great stuff. Looks awesome in orange. Looking forward to seeing the whole set. Happy Christmas!

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.

Perfect gift for this Christmas! Thanks man. Happy Holidays 🎉

Yes I love Jcars. They were my first redlines

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.

AWESOME LOOKING

From where I’m sitting that looks like a brilliant piece of restoration. Thanks for sharing your skills.

Windshield came out looking really good. Nice car!

Merry Christmas...As always so much beautiful creativity in single video..Hats off brother

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

Merry Christmas. Car looks amazing.

That zinc plating is awesome!

Looks great!

Awesome job great job on the stickers

Looks great. Love the orange. Merry Christmas

Great job that looks really nice

Another excellent job!

Thumbs up looks awesome

Love that color .

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

Excelente trabajo, felíz navidad!! Saludos

Have a great holiday season and I will look forward to seeing more of your great videos in the future. Keep up the good work!

MERRY CHRISTMAS . Great video's . Great work , Mike Espo...

Nice colour, happy Christmas

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and awesome work as always ... the paint job came out Flawless thanks for sharing 😁👍🏼

That looks awesome!

Very nice !

Merry Christmas, luv the spectra flame orange.

Another great job

Your videos are like asmr to me. I love it. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

another great restoration !! Merry Christmas !!!

I like this cars design. Very nice restoration. Merry Christmas.

spectacular!

Gorgeous look, I'm sure you have your own ranking but from what I've seen this is some of your finest work.

Good as new. Good job.

I love this restoration, very very neat one! Merry Christmas!!

Very beautiful as always. Congrats and merry christmas

Excellent work as usual. Merry Christmas.

Awesome always enjoy

That’s a nice finish!

Awesome video. My new year's resolution is to watch every BHW video. 😁😎

Amazing car

Merry Christmas baremetal HW! I just wanna say I love watching your videos. More power to you and your channel!

Great job 😎

Brilliant as always - Happy Christmas to you. 👍👍