Thanks for the compliment! Appreciate you checking out my channel!

Thanks for watching and for the compliment!

Thanks! Appreciate it!

I learned how to paint like this, so spraying from the top down just feels weird. I sprayed a Camaro last week from the top down on the quarter panel. I was just trying something different, and I definitely don’t care for that technique. Thanks for the comment!

I agree. I don’t like all the accessories either, but my customer loves it LOL.

@@phillipshotrodgarage I agree all those "accessories" prove is you CAN'T improve on perfection. Sometimes it is best to just sit back, relax, enjoy what you already have and use the extra accessory money to take a nice vacation or road trip. "See the USA in your Chevrolet..."

@@ricksteelcustoms3196 One thing I have to keep in mind when working on these cars for others is, some things that used to be in style are no longer in style, but some people are still stuck in that era. Sometimes, they want what they wanted then, but couldn't afford then. I had a guy come to me with a 67 Mustang GT fastback, 390, 4 speed, with A/C, all matching numbers. He changed it to a 5 speed, 464 cu. in. stroker engine, removed the A/C, etc. I asked, "why didn't you buy a 6 cyl. fastback to do all that to instead of a matching number 390 GT"? His answer was something along these lines... "I bought the car I always wanted. I couldn't afford it when I was young, so I bought it now. I'm doing to it now what I would have done to it then. I'm taking the best parts available now, and making it as fast as I want it, and unique to me, and my dream". Well, I couldn't argue with that. I didn't like what he was doing, but he was living his dream from his youth. The guy with this '57 is doing the same thing, he is doing to this car what he would have done 60 years ago. When I get in my 80's, I'm going to probably buy a 60 year old 1993 Mustang Cobra, and heavily modify it. Why? Because, when I was a Sr. in high school, that's what I wanted but couldn't afford. Some day I'll get one, and I'm going to do with it what I wanted to do back then. LOL, I think its a strange phenomenon that old guys go through. Numbers and values, and other people's opinion don't mean as much when you are old, and running out of time to live your dreams. I know many will disagree.

@@phillipshotrodgarage I agree with you again 100% If it is your car do whatever you want to it. But ya, buying a straight 6 Mustang and then putting a V8 in makes a LOT more sense than what that guy did. I too am by no means a "purist." I have a 1957 Chevy 2 door hard top that I am converting into a convertible (and NO I did NOT cut the roof off,) I bought it that way for $1,200 I could NEVER have done something like that to a 2 door hard top. I also own a 1969 Pontiac Lemans original Convertible that I am cloning ingot a GTO and I have a 1975 Corvette Convertible that I am updating with a 1982 front nose and hood and C5 seats, and I am backdating my 1978 Shorty G10 Chevy Van I also own a 1970 Chevelle SS 396 4 speed that was all original when I bought it in fact it still has its Cranberry red with black stripe paint on it. I did Lot of "day 2" upgrades to it already I wanted bucket seats and a center counsel my car came with the factory bench.. So Now I have an original set of 70 SS buckets and a reproduction center counsel in it. I removed the original 15" 70 SS rally wheels for a set of 17 up front and 18" out back because I upgraded to 4 way Wildwood disc brakes and the original wheels no longer cleared the calipers. I then when with Global West upper and lower tubular controls arms and Viking coil over shocks and a set of Flowmaster ceramic coated headers and Edelbrock Street EFI ETC. ETC. I told this on guy on KZfaq that I simply added the passenger side door mirror (a reproduction of the original 70 SS optional mirror, and he had a cow! LOL! The 1 problem I am having is trying to figure out if I am going to paint it? I have decades of paint and body show car experience and can make it look better than new but then I will have to hear people say "nice clone" and with the original paint they won't say that. And it might actually be worth even more like that. anyway take a look I currently own 24 cars and you will see I am NOT a purest. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5aqbNWhy7OddI0.html www.youtube.com/@ricksteelcustoms3196/videos

I think the dual rear antenna are kick ass. I have a set of NOS GM install patterns for rear antennas and they factory mount near the back window, but it doesn't matter. Make it yours. I like the CC kit too, but only for 57 convertibles. If every car at the show & shine was alike we wouldn't go very often. 😅

Awesome, I'd love to own one myself some day. Thanks for checking out my video!

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Thanks! I appreciate the comment!

Thanks for the compliment!

Many thanks! I appreciate you watching! glad you enjoyed the video!

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Great perspective. One interesting thing about this car is that the owner graduated the class of 1957. Great memories.

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Thank you! Auto body work is very labor intensive, and requires a lot of skill. I hope to have more videos, similar to this on the channel soon. Thank you for watching and for the comment!

There’s nothing better that a slick finish. Tropical turquoise is a beautiful color, congrats on owning one! Thanks for watching!

Thanks Bob!

That's right. People sometimes ask a price for repairing a small area, and are amazed at the cost. The problem is they focus on the small spot, but I know that when you break out the paint gun, you are going to be painting at least two panels to make it look good in a lot of cases, especially if the repair is close to an edge of a panel as this one was.

Thank you! I appreciate you following along. Most of my videos are on my projects I’m building for myself. But, from time to time I will be working on customer cars like this ‘57. I have another customer vehicle coming up in a few weeks. Thanks for hanging out!

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Thanks for the tip. I just put it back the way it was on the other side. If this car comes back into my shop again, I’ll take a look at that. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thank you! It sure was a lot of work for a antenna hole. But, that's what the customer wanted. Make them happy, and get paid!

Yes it was!

Thank you! And thanks for watching from Australia!

Thanks Bro Harry. You are right. It does take a lot more work than many people realize. People wonder why paint and body work is so expensive, but just look at how labor intensive filling that hole was.

Now, the trunk is a whole different ball game. LOL. We will see how that goes soon!

Thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you enjoyed the video!

I’m not going to mention spinner caps to him, he might want them. 😂 Thanks for watching!

Thank you!

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You never know what a customer is going to want done, that’s for sure.

¡Muchas gracias por ver mi vídeo! ¡Saludo desde Estados Unidos!

I just realized just now that I put the wrong time on the video haha.

@@phillipshotrodgarage all good brother ! 57 turned out excellent.

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Dual Antennas, on Tri-5 : Yup! BUT, Even 1958-1964 Impalas/Impala Super Sports........ Also great.

What part are you referencing?

Adhesion promoter helps promote adhesion LOL! Seriously man, when you prep a panel for a color blend, you can't get too aggressive with the sand scratches, so adhesion promoter helps the paint stick to the finely sanded surface. A aggressively sanded surface gets you a good mechanical adhesion, but a finely sanded surface depends almost solely on chemical adhesion, and the adhesion promoter just helps it out a little. The clear blender sort of melts in the new clear into the old clear, blending them together, when you don't clear all the way to the edge of the panel. This technique works great in some instances, and in other applications not so well. Just a few tricks of the trade.

Thanks for watching. I used a DeVilbiss DV1 with a 1.3 for base and clear. I have a 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 for this gun. I use the 1.3 most of the time but I switch to the 1.4 for clear on all over jobs and the 1.2 to lay out really heavy metallics.

The problem with older colors is that they were mixed with now obsolete paint systems that used different color toners, made of different materials. I have run into many colors that are not even in the new paint system databases, and they cant be mixed with old formulas, because old toners don't exist, and the formulas don't cross over to new systems. I ran into this a while back on a model A. I tried PPG, Sherwin Williams, Exalta, and a couple others, and none of them crossed over the early formulas. The paint manufacturers aren't putting much effort into creating formulas for vintage colors, so it is common these days to use a camera that generates a formula that is a close match. It takes a photo of the paint, and searches all the formulas in the database. Since the camera cannot create a exact formula, and it only searches the database of known formulas, it sometimes gives you a color that isn't even close. For instance, the model A that I worked on crossed over to a 1984 Ford pickup color as the closest know match. I saw a video here on KZfaq where they tried to match a color on a old hot rod painted in the 50's I believe with a camera, and the formula generated was from a PT Cruiser. So, it's a hassle dealing with old colors, and you'll find that most cars that have been repainted aren't exactly the same as the original color, just real close. Now, a person can spend hours and hours with a paint mixing system tinting colors to get a custom mixed color and get real close, but that's a different story.

@@phillipshotrodgarage Thanks for your answer, thats a good info! So, any idea what modern color is near '57 Chevy surf green?

Sherwin Williams has a few classic colors in thier custom database. They show that one www.sw-rodandrestocustomcolor.com/colors/PCCL78

@@phillipshotrodgarage Thank you so much! This has been a real pain the butt for awhile!

The original codes are easy to find, a modern formula not so much. I think I'll call my Sherwin supplier tomorrow just for curiosity and see if they can pull up the PCCL78 formula in their system.

Thanks for watching!

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The color is called Tropical Turquoise.

Thank you , just on paper just doesn’t look the same

The customer gets what the customer wants. I got paid, so I did it.

A algunas personas les gusta y a otras no les gusta. A mi cliente le encanta. ¡Pagó la cuenta y eso me hizo feliz! ¡Gracias por ver el canal!

What part do you want to know? I'll be glad to tell you.