HR Premier Full Body Restoration

A very watchable insight. See what goes into the body restoration of this beautiful Holden HR Premier.

[@TheTigerQuoll]

Simply stunning,well done lads.

[@patrickbryant5224]

Fantastic workmanship. Well done!

[@ROT45UTE]

Amazing work Glen👌

[@miceinoz1181]

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.

[@saintraphael6311]

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

[@MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS]

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

[@stevo184]

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

[@grahamsmith7407]

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

[@stevencrane2053]

Bloody beautiful 👍 job

[@justafewdollars6726]

great work guys

[@weswright3187]

Lovely paint job 🙂.

[@LFMcD]

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

[@frankiesultana376]

Love the colour well done

[@stephenmschulte4771]

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

[@ianpassmore1632]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@WaynesGarage]

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]

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]

@@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

[@TurboHDT]

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]

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

[@clintonmacdonald2574]

Nice job Glen , what clearcoat did you use mate ?

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

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

[@HB0608]

How long did it take you to do?

[@GeeenJ]

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

[@honestpat7789]

Most of that’ll get covered in trim

[@honestpat7789]

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

[@reidcustomgarage]

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

[@paulcohen142]

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

[@reidcustomgarage]

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]

@@reidcustomgarageok cool, thanks for the reply.

[@ianpassmore1632]

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.

[@anthonybezzina2638]

where are you guys located?

[@reidcustomgarage]

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

[@zoob533]

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

[@paulsz6194]

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

[@michaelcrafter8994]

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.