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Quick little build thread on this Team car. this one was part of an auction I won and was pretty trashed. Brush painted silver all over.rear arms and mounts were painted black. No dye at all. Here is how it started




After tossing the bent and tore up chassis, I soaked the parts in dot 4 and then ran thru my typical LA's Awesome cleaner in my ultrasonic cleaner. Most everything cleaned up well but the plastics were slightly discolored by the paint that had been there for I'm sure quite a few years. Picked up some hot pink dye and had the chassis, nose, motor plate, and shock caps reanodized black. All in all it looks pretty good now.






And now off to eBay to recoup the money spent on the rest of the lot!

Great story and turnaround. Like you, I get utility out of rebuilds and refreshes and then releasing them back to the world, hopefully to a grateful new owner.

for some reason pink keeps looking more and more appealing on a car.

I was tempted to try pink on gold but after a mock up it was hideous. Swapped to black...I was in love

I'd love to find some old lite speed dylon colors. I tried the dylon from the fabric store on scrap and it was terrible. This is rit dye, I'm just getting bored with it.

Looks great! Who did your anodizing?

It's called Advanced Precision Anodizing and they are about a mile from my house. Small shop with tiny minimum shop charges I had 3 chassis, nose, and motor plates and 12 shock caps done as a minimum charge of $20 to strip and $40 to coat. They also hard coat. I am not sure how much more it wood have taken to go over a minimum charge, he said its all about how much room it takes up on the racks. Because they are a small shop they don't have a ton of colors, and some just aren't worth doing for the little they would do. Still, they have violet, green, blue, red, copper, gold, and black...I don't remember the other colors he mentioned

The only problem I had was where I left some glue (apparently) on the nose plate. The stripped didn't eat the anno and the new color didn't take. I gotta pay more attention next time, but this was a test anyway to see how it would go. I did absolutely no prep work to the pieces.

Wow, thats awesome and not a bad price either. I'll have to send some things to them to be done!

If anyone needs their number and address let me know, while they are local I'd rather not be a middle man- they ship and receive on location

I dig the pink. I have always wondered how that would turn out. Looks good.

Stunning! I am impressed with how you turned that heap around into something great.

....and she is on her way to Belgium! Afscheid vriend!

Looks awesome, loving that colour combo, well done

Love it!

Awesome resto! Annodizing came out really nice imo..

Anyway you can posted their number or pm me? i will give them a try.i need some gold and black done.i would never believe that was the same car very sweet