When recovering your vinyl seats, turn your new vinyl seat covers inside out, put your new seat covers in a pillowcase, tie the end the pillowcase so the seat cover can’t fall out of the pillowcase and put it in the dryer for about 10 minutes or so. The heat of the dryer will soften the vinyl and make it much easier to slide down over the cushions etc. Just don’t leave them in the dryer too long or you and melt them.
Limelight is a pretty kewl project that most guys can get behind. Like the gauge cluster you guys put in. I would have put black interior, but it's interesting that you went with the saddle color, which is not what most people would have done. Looks better than I thought it would. Gonna be great to see this one done and hear it run!!
Sand headliner bows and paint them, the loops that bows go in is called listing, pull front and back, then sides, drag fingers on seams from middle to each side while pulling edge with other hand, at some point you will have to cut edges of listing so you can keep stretching headliner, drag razor against bow, don't cut toward stitching or will have a kink in seam
If I ever got my hands on a 1970 Camaro SS I'd wanna do mine as a hybrid of project Limelight And The Split-Bumper Thumper that Mike Galley And Pat Toplinski did on "Engine Power"
Hello my friend that's doing this a Camaro 1970 I do like to watch your program I'm learning quite a bit you're making it sound easy in the teaching is very easy along with you're no house and your abilities to show how it is properly done makes the abilities of learning faster also like to say thank you very much to put this program of teaching and learning on how to perform redo a car properly from ground-up which I like to say I just signed up to learn more and I will be leaving a thumbs up yours truly TCB third son of Elvis Presley alive and well in Canada and I do like your program considerably a lot at least there is no hound dog and in this area haha I'm laughing thank you thumbs up here we go I'm going baby
I'm a big Mark Donohue Fan (obviously) and I'm currently purchasing a 1969 RS SS 396 Th400 HT Black on Black Camaro - Not cheap, but I hope to have months of fun restoring it, and years of fun driving it. PS- I'm not THAT David James Donohue ;-)
David, I was a member of SCCA and worked the first aid at mid ohio race track in late 60s to early 70s. During one bad rain storm I got shelter in a large truck with Mark Donohue and Roger Pensky. Mark was the nicest , most polite guy you could ever meet. He was fun to talk with and polite to everyone. Roger was a complete, total jerk! Also Grumpy Jenkins should have been called Asshole Jenkins . Big time jerk!
@@oldfirefighter2887 - I met David James Donohue (and Margie & Karl Haas) in Vancouver when we used to host the Molson Indy Vancouver (1990-1991?)- Margie was blown away that I had the exact same name and said "Karl look at this", he grabbed David and introduced me. They were all super nice. I bumped in Bobby Rahal, and in passing said "Hey my mom is your biggest fan!" - He waved me over to his paddock, pulled the visor off his helmet that he had just used for the practice session, signed it with a sharpie, and handed it to me. MY mom freaked out when I gave it to her(it's still on her office wall) I also met Willy T Ribbs, and he pulled me over the rope to let someone take a picture of us together in front of his car. Most racers appreciate that their fans are paying their way.
I think they should have kept the interior black too. I'm very leery of how well and long that dye will stay on. To me dyeing only makes sense if you are applying it over the same color where it has faded. I would also be suspect of the quality of that reproduction gauge cluster, I would probably opt to restore the original one and just add the other gauges. I like everything else.
I miss my old 71. Those interior parts are unreasonably expensive compared to the earlier years. That was one reason why I sold it. I could have had more car for the price with a different classic.
Love it except the front dash cowling should have been black where it meets the windshield. Looks good green but if you wanted to keep it oe I would have stayed black along with the upper firewall where the wipers sit. Great job though!
A lot of the steps were skipped, I understand this is just a digital copy of the original television show, but I would be cool if you could include some “b” reel or extended cuts
Hi guys, beautiful show. Very profesionnal mechanics, well equiped garage, And sexy cars. As a French speaking person, I do appreciate your US accent, very musical, but sometimes hard to catch. Is that specific to the Detroit Area ?
Abdallah Daali you can’t make your problems our problems; USA can’t take much more of it. Again...start your own industry there. You can do it if you work as hard a we do!
Matt Miksch not sure But I could definitely tell that it had an open carrier differential, seeing as it was doing the "One Wheel Peel" in the burnout clip
UUHHMM, Are we seeing this right? Body work sequence done all backwards. Not a judge here yet this was screwy how you did it. Aren’t you guys the same ppl whom Spray painted a Q-jet exterior gold color, on another video? WOW!
This car is gorgeous along with its interior but no you went so wrong with the colours I didn't care for the green or at least that type of green but you should have went black interior but it's not my car so do what you want
Awesome guys! You took a beautiful body style and painted it a questionable color and made the choice to put in the worst color interior (perhaps except red) to finish it. Were you trying to make folks watching gag?
Just a guess but $30k since the car even in rough shape was probably $15k. And a lot of sweat equity. The paint is probably the hardest part since most of us don't have a paint booth at the house. Body, engine, wiring and interior can be done in your garage. Just not paint if you want it to be nice.
wow that's super work , great restoration
Sponsorship is such a beautiful thing!
When recovering your vinyl seats, turn your new vinyl seat covers inside out, put your new seat covers in a pillowcase, tie the end the pillowcase so the seat cover can’t fall out of the pillowcase and put it in the dryer for about 10 minutes or so. The heat of the dryer will soften the vinyl and make it much easier to slide down over the cushions etc. Just don’t leave them in the dryer too long or you and melt them.
Window crank install: Roll-up window all the way. Put window knob at the 9;00.
Keeps em outta your knee cap!
test123apt I always hated that, seemed like you fix it one way and your knee is bouncing off of it the other way!
One of my favorite shows when it was on. I love this build, I like everything about it, but I wish you would have reinstalled the headrests.
70 camaro is my favorite camaro of all time. I wish i had one of those.
I had one in 86 a z28 withe a Blown , dual quad 454 !
I had a 79 z28 but it was bone stock, i sold it to a friend and he traded it in to a dealership and i hugely regret selling it.
Just starting my 70 project
So satisfying spent sometime watching this restoration!
Limelight is a pretty kewl project that most guys can get behind. Like the gauge cluster you guys put in. I would have put black interior, but it's interesting that you went with the saddle color, which is not what most people would have done. Looks better than I thought it would. Gonna be great to see this one done and hear it run!!
I still can't believe i am as much in love with that color as i am.
What a flawless and professional job I admire you, excellent car, I look beautiful.
That car is looking so sweet now!
Looks really good. With black stripes I'd have went with black interior.
100% agree. I would've painted the wheels black and put in a black interior.
if you read the comments seems like most of us would have put a black interior in
Nice to see one without a boring LS swap and big wheels
Extremely talented people.
awesome job you made guys!!.. Love the Camaro I hade a IROC Z28 1990 Loved that car!.. stage 3 package aproxe around 470 -500 HP
Sand headliner bows and paint them, the loops that bows go in is called listing, pull front and back, then sides, drag fingers on seams from middle to each side while pulling edge with other hand, at some point you will have to cut edges of listing so you can keep stretching headliner, drag razor against bow, don't cut toward stitching or will have a kink in seam
You Guys make it look easy! LOL Nothing goes together that easy! LOL Looking Good!
Very awesome. Good solid work on the interior!!
That car looks great! Those guys always do good work.
Yes. He did put the steering wheel on straight, with the wheels turned to the right side. 15:54.
Haha wow
Awesome build guys looks fantastic
Best tv mankind has ever produced! I will fight anyone who disagrees.
Love the Kermit the Frog green!
My first car was a green 73 Camaro. I am so jealous.
If I ever got my hands on a 1970 Camaro SS
I'd wanna do mine as a hybrid of project Limelight And The Split-Bumper Thumper that Mike Galley And Pat Toplinski did on "Engine Power"
I love this build. Tommy's hand looks good in this one. I bet that bad boy was gushing blood when it was cut
The car looks better than NEW !!!!
Beautiful love the interior. Good job fellas 🙂👏
3:25 - was expecting more than as regular bathroom sponge
You mean kitchen sponge thats for dishes?
Bad ass car. I wish it could sit in my garage.
Impressive work done.
Why did the javlin sound like it had a rod knock?
John Kingsford well The car is about 50 years old (at least it is now)
Was looking for this comment.🤣
Sounded like it yes, id wager it was lousy audio though.
At least I hope so 😅
It sounded pretty bad!
Sounded terrible. I have an amc 360 in my Jeep and I wouldn’t even dare start it if it sounded like that..
Corn juice fuel...
I saw Mark drive at Riverside back then...Gurney too and the Penske CAN-AM Porsches.
Hello my friend that's doing this a Camaro 1970 I do like to watch your program I'm learning quite a bit you're making it sound easy in the teaching is very easy along with you're no house and your abilities to show how it is properly done makes the abilities of learning faster also like to say thank you very much to put this program of teaching and learning on how to perform redo a car properly from ground-up which I like to say I just signed up to learn more and I will be leaving a thumbs up yours truly TCB third son of Elvis Presley alive and well in Canada and I do like your program considerably a lot at least there is no hound dog and in this area haha I'm laughing thank you thumbs up here we go I'm going baby
I put green led's in my 67 impalas dash cluster!
Great build! Just wished you guys put in an all black interior!
really nice build
I'm a big Mark Donohue Fan (obviously) and I'm currently purchasing a 1969 RS SS 396 Th400 HT Black on Black Camaro - Not cheap, but I hope to have months of fun restoring it, and years of fun driving it.
PS- I'm not THAT David James Donohue ;-)
David, I was a member of SCCA and worked the first aid at mid ohio race track in late 60s to early 70s. During one bad rain storm I got shelter in a large truck with Mark Donohue and Roger Pensky. Mark was the nicest , most polite guy you could ever meet. He was fun to talk with and polite to everyone. Roger was a complete, total jerk! Also Grumpy Jenkins should have been called Asshole Jenkins . Big time jerk!
@@oldfirefighter2887 - I met David James Donohue (and Margie & Karl Haas) in Vancouver when we used to host the Molson Indy Vancouver (1990-1991?)- Margie was blown away that I had the exact same name and said "Karl look at this", he grabbed David and introduced me. They were all super nice.
I bumped in Bobby Rahal, and in passing said "Hey my mom is your biggest fan!" - He waved me over to his paddock, pulled the visor off his helmet that he had just used for the practice session, signed it with a sharpie, and handed it to me. MY mom freaked out when I gave it to her(it's still on her office wall)
I also met Willy T Ribbs, and he pulled me over the rope to let someone take a picture of us together in front of his car.
Most racers appreciate that their fans are paying their way.
Love that one wheel peel there AMC
Should’ve put a mini spool huh
I think they should have kept the interior black too. I'm very leery of how well and long that dye will stay on. To me dyeing only makes sense if you are applying it over the same color where it has faded. I would also be suspect of the quality of that reproduction gauge cluster, I would probably opt to restore the original one and just add the other gauges. I like everything else.
Kenneth Southard I’ve used some of that dye before from a spray can & it’s ok.
I miss my old 71. Those interior parts are unreasonably expensive compared to the earlier years. That was one reason why I sold it. I could have had more car for the price with a different classic.
Love it except the front dash cowling should have been black where it meets the windshield. Looks good green but if you wanted to keep it oe I would have stayed black along with the upper firewall where the wipers sit. Great job though!
A neighbor bought one of these brand new it was green on green it was really fast in it's day
Easy to make hog ring pliers. Take old pair of pliers and drill a small divot on each side
40 years? More like almost 50 years!
70 SS Camaro 396 is 50 yrs old
Redline on a 1970 camaro with this motor was 6000 rpm.
11:27 Who’s your Daddy? 😂 effin hilarious
Haha keep it between the ditches! I'm gonna have to use that!
My father had a javelin in Mexico and he painted black
9:52
dont see a lot of old muscle cars with a factory vacuum gauge.
2nd gens FTW!!
A lot of the steps were skipped, I understand this is just a digital copy of the original television show, but I would be cool if you could include some “b” reel or extended cuts
Nice work. I'd drive that.
at 5:00 For an L78 car the tach should be 7000 rpm w/ 6500 red line.
Water shields are missing for the doors not good for a rainy climate!
It's funny how the car is better built now than when it left Detroit.
VHT paint is soooooo much better. It doesn't bubble up when retouched.
i laughed my butt off when he said idiot lights.
Sweet
Too bad it didn’t get the 70 front seats with headrest
11:25 - "Who's your daddy" Lmaooo
Cool
The panel up by the dash pad where the vin number is is suppose to be interior color not body color
You should put the f bomb logo on
I did stuff like this when younger...now I'm old and poor from it 😂 It's true older age you loose health and money.
Where did you purchase your wiring harness from.. It looks awesome
I'm sure it's from painless. The sponsor a lot of their shows, probably not this one though since they didn't mention it
I highly recommend M&H Electric Fabricators out of Santa Fe Springs CA. I know several guys that say Painless should be renamed painful.
Hi guys, beautiful show. Very profesionnal mechanics, well equiped garage, And sexy cars. As a French speaking person, I do appreciate your US accent, very musical, but sometimes hard to catch. Is that specific to the Detroit Area ?
Man hope that roof don't got no outies. . Stressful work .on that headliner
wow reading your comment hurts my head.
Those seats aren’t for a 70. The 70 had a brick shaped headrest and was squared off. Those sets are 71-78 type.
Heat gun is not going to fix that headliner. Us a blowtorch. And next time use the 1 piece like all modern vehicles.
Why didn't they just do the interior in black it would have looked better
Donavin Gilbert
Peanut butter and that green is a great combination
Oh 😱 shit true that im driving with 42 year old wireing and fuse box ect in mi Oldsmobile Cutlass 😎 yeah... Jajajajaja
Was the javelin knocking ?
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What i don't get is why did they not paint the inside earlier
i would have left the interior black,green and black look better together than green,black,and tan do
Your missing the head rests for the front seats.
Thank you for not using an all black interior.
no headrests in the 70 seats?
I love USA and I want to work there .I'm from Morocco
No we’re full. Start your own industry there!
Sonic Holiday not cool
@@aodhan3153 !
Thank you man but I didn't talk to you I just posed my problem
Abdallah Daali you can’t make your problems our problems; USA can’t take much more of it. Again...start your own industry there. You can do it if you work as hard a we do!
Sonic Holiday don't make our country look weak. USA is a melting pot you don't own it.
15:10 "Hey can you do us a favor and whip over that terrible rear seat real fast like?"
Who makes wiring harness?
Google "70 Camero Wiring harness". My first guess without looking is painless, classic industries, American Autowire, etc.
All 1970 Camaros had Head rests.. Are yours lost?
There is a great video on youtube that shows the difference between 70,71,72 and 73. 1970 is the only year with on head rests.
dupli color, what a waist of time. Hell, should of sprayed it with BED LINER! It also acts as a SOUND DAMPENER!
Agree
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Did that Javelin have a nasty exhaust leak?!
Matt Miksch not sure
But I could definitely tell that it had an open carrier differential, seeing as it was doing the "One Wheel Peel" in the burnout clip
Ok, but what if there's a tree between the ditches?
Adhesion Promoter
UUHHMM, Are we seeing this right?
Body work sequence done all backwards.
Not a judge here yet this was screwy how you did it.
Aren’t you guys the same ppl whom Spray painted a Q-jet exterior gold color, on another video?
WOW!
$100000 Camaro build
This car is gorgeous along with its interior but no you went so wrong with the colours I didn't care for the green or at least that type of green but you should have went black interior but it's not my car so do what you want
16:10. Not if you drive a ditch digger.
They left the upper part of the dash body color,this is not acceptable in a serious restoration,just shit the whole thing,amateurish...
interior crocodile aligator ?
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I bet those seats stunk bad when he got down to the foam. Just think about 40 years worth of farts on that foam. Holy Crap that's a lot of gas. LOL
Where's the head rest ? Your neck is going to snap from all that torque ! lol
10:18 lol 7' inch wheels i think he was reading a script think it had 17s he muft it up
Joey, he's refering to 15"x7" wheels. stock was 14x6. the 70 1/2 camaro Z came with the 15x7 steel wheels . had one, miss it.
The stance doesn't look right to me. The color is great.
Awesome guys! You took a beautiful body style and painted it a questionable color and made the choice to put in the worst color interior (perhaps except red) to finish it. Were you trying to make folks watching gag?
cost off this all
Just a guess but $30k since the car even in rough shape was probably $15k. And a lot of sweat equity. The paint is probably the hardest part since most of us don't have a paint booth at the house. Body, engine, wiring and interior can be done in your garage. Just not paint if you want it to be nice.