Bloody magnificent job. Would love to see the car when finished.

Awesome work, I had no idea so many replacement panels are available.

Looking gorgeous ❤ Awesome Aussie Car HR Holden myvery first car back in 1974 😊

Beautiful job mate 🎉

Fantastic workmanship. Well done!

Wow, what a great job . I did my apprenticeship as a panel beater in the early 80's . nice work .

Simply stunning,well done lads.

I am impressed by the panel gaps you have achieved given these cars came from the factory with far from perfect panel alignments. If only I kept the HR that I owned many years ago, it is so hard to find a shell worthy of investing this much money on these days.

Amazing work Glen👌

Fantastic looking job guy's great car well done! Wish it was mine.

Love the colour well done

App’s are lottery a winner good job man. From a painter to you spot on mate. 👍👍

Very nice job Mr Reid. 👍. It looks like the owner is restoring this car back to original, from the colour. Maybe?

Awesome job guys thumbs up to you

Bloody beautiful 👍 job

Fantastic work. A credit to all your team. They only thing that disappoint s me is seeing the engine bay in gloss and by memory the firewall in colour as when I used to paint them when smashed we could get a perfect factory match engine bay by using black dulon tint and mixing acrylic primer to the black tint . The result being a slightly semi gloss the boot areas were also the same. Anyway thats just me as I like the factory look. I am a retired painter it was called coach painting when I did my apprenticeship at a large inner Sydney Holden dealer smash repair shop. I retired almost 6 years ago after almost 50 years painting.

@reidcustomgarage

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feed back. I agree, however I must do as the client instructed. Thank you for sharing your experience here. I’ve been painting cars for 24 years and still learning every day .

@saintraphael6311

20 күн бұрын

@@reidcustomgarage Black is black , i want my baby back. Just do what the customer wants . Great job .Its a credit to you and yr team.

Lovely paint job 🙂.

Very emotional for me - I had one identical, was my mothers car and it got taken from me while I was away. Was never found 😞SA plate RER986 if anybody ever sees it but doubt she survived. Really enjoyed this one - Thanks.

Love it, I had one exactly the same colour too, got stolen when they were being stolen for the seats etc I wonder if that mine🤔

great work guys

I love old Holden's I've owned at least 1 of every model except FJ or FX, and VF i think its great guys bringing them back to life and its important for our motoring history and Australia's home made from the engine to the body and we did it better than any other country for 70 years you've done a killa job except the firewall should be Black as it was from new

@reidcustomgarage

26 күн бұрын

Thanks mate , and I tend to agree about the firewall . But must do as instructed by the owner . Thank you for sharing .

Hey mate just came across your channel and seen this build was using a handful of my HD HR repair section. Awesome to see the car and my work on the car good job mate Wayne

@reidcustomgarage

28 күн бұрын

That’s awesome mate. The sections were all supplied by the owner John Papa , who I guess got them from yourself . Good to know where I can get them in the future.

@WaynesGarage

28 күн бұрын

@@reidcustomgarage yeah John is a awesome guy i cant wait to see the car finished and yeah any mate i make a heap of stuff by hand

Mate do yuh.self a favour & get a BigFoot! I just got the 21 cant believe I didn't get one sooner!!

Nice job Glen , what clearcoat did you use mate ?

they never had the dash colour on the inner centre pillars looks odd with the red there

@honestpat7789

27 күн бұрын

Most of that’ll get covered in trim

Super clean and super professional. My only question is, why go for the closed door respray?

@reidcustomgarage

26 күн бұрын

Hay Thanks, I just wanted the panels sprayed together with this particular colour . I don’t do all restos this way but for me this would guarantee even coverage . Thanks for sharing

How long did it take you to do?

The workmanship is fantastic but sadly people have no idea the time and work that goes into a project like this and the cost at the end. I had my fathers HR Special that I wanted restored and was advised that the starting price was $35,000 so guess by the time it was finished this could have ended up in $70,000 price range these days. In the 80's I had a HR Ute resprayed twice at a cost of $5,000 a time, how times have changed.

@reidcustomgarage

5 күн бұрын

@@ashleyflint3501 your absolutely right. This one finished at a humble $60k for the body work only . Although it sounds overzealous I can honestly say it just covered costs with very little profit. I do these restos for the love of it I suppose. Thanks for commenting

@ashleyflint3501

5 күн бұрын

@@reidcustomgarage Thank you for your reply. As a young lad i hung around the local crash repairers shop, to me it was an art seeing the owner bring cars back to life or even giving them a change of life. He once painted a S series valiant Burgandy , which was originally White, man that car looked fantastic with all the lines of the body work. It was great watching that HR come back to life. As we both know , Money is not everything in life, just ask a truck driver !

Doesn’t the deoxidine affect the epoxy? Or did you strip it off after?

@reidcustomgarage

28 күн бұрын

No , in my experience, as long as you do it properly sand the epoxy surface’s , clean the deoxidin residue off and blow dry, then re coat primer immediately you should not have a problem.

@paulcohen142

28 күн бұрын

@@reidcustomgarageok cool, thanks for the reply.

@ianpassmore1632

27 күн бұрын

I used to also spray the deoxidiser with a bottle and scotch brite then wash off with water and a spray bottle. Then blow dry. Any trace of deoxidiser residue the primer wont adhere to.

where are you guys located?

@reidcustomgarage

26 күн бұрын

Hi, We are located at 47 Chetwynd Street Loganholme Qld , 4129. Pop in anytime .

When you look at the parts There is nearly enough to rebuild the car form scratch when you look at the car your no why that's the same car

Well it won't look good if a 2-year-old kid has welded it up

@paulsz6194

22 күн бұрын

Didn’t see any kids in the smash repair shop….

Your Seam Sealer by Brush is Very Messy Also dont wet rub with your fingers,,after blocking,,Palm it so no finger marks. Why 3 Coats of Clear? Because you rub down your last coat with 1200 or 1500 Grit? Also Crap Spray Gun TRY De Villbiss Iwata Or DV1 Sorry but your work is good but your Methods not for me Goodluck