Redline Restoration: Hot Wheels 1968 J-Car

To all my subscribers that celebrate Christmas I want to wish a very happy and safe holiday... and a very very Merry Christmas!
In this video I will be restoring a Hot Wheels 1968 J-Car I bought for about 2$ at a local diecast show.

[@Mystery_Meat]

Love your videos! Got into them when i found my father's old matchbox collection and set out to find and replace them all with new ones, and your tutorials on restoring methods has really helped me make a sizeable dent!

[@JDProject]

Great video 👍

[@MINROKS]

Love the videos and love to see how passionate a collector you are and the work that goes into restoring these gems

[@Shrike58]

You mentioned that you really didn't know the history of this car in real life but this would have been the machine done up in the classic blue-and-orange Gulf Oil livery. I'm old enough to remember these cars AND the "Hot Wheels" cartoon real time. Keep up the good work.

[@kenknife111]

The baby blue and orange were gt 40s raced in 68 and 69. The j car was never raced. Ken Miles was killed testing the j car when the rear body came off. The car was repaired to ford mk4 specs and raced that way.

[@MarcoPollo77]

Merry Christmas. Your videos are always a treat to watch.

[@itsMrNoble]

You’re always a treat to watch, mate, if anyone is…

[@williambartholomew5680]

I bet the hoods don't have very good continuity when you pid them in your electro-polisher as they aren't part of the rest of the body that you always fully "ground", try and see if attaching an additional alligator clip to the hoods' under sides take care of the issue.

[@plaws0]

Beat me by **checks timestamp** 16 hours. That was my first thought, too - electrical connection.

[@icenesiswayons9962]

I think you're right. I'm going to try it myself to see.

[@D.G24]

Can I send you a car to restore

[@tom117323]

DomTheBom theman which one? I may be of a help for you, let me know:)

[@johnkelley9877]

It looks brand new! I am amazed out how nice it looks. Thanks for sharing this and have a Merry Christmas.

[@lamarjohnson1705]

Marry Christmas Eve god bless you and your family I love the videos keep up the good work 😊

[@bytemegga]

Truly the best gift for Christmas. Merry Christmas BaremetalHW!

[@doodbro931]

You can see in the before shots, the back seems to have already been discolored, so that might explain why it looked like it after electropolishing it

[@77PacerStudios]

Really gorgeous looking Ford J-Car! Looks exactly the way it did when it was first packed into the box 50 years ago! Now it's ready to race down the track once again!!

[@karldunne5595]

Excellent job!!... Well done!!... That orange is almost perfect colour match for my high class whisky, which i use for this Channel!!.. Happy Christmas!!... Cheers!!.

[@og7189]

You've inspired me to start practicing restoring old toy cars so that one day, I'll feel confident enough to restore the old ones from my childhood that really deserve to look new again

[@JDGooch-wp1yk]

Great work, though I'm not a big of orange, this actually impressed me. Great color, it made the stickers stand out. Can't wait to see what you got in store next.

[@scarecrow456]

Great job. Thanks again for sharing. Love all your videos.

[@ChrisWEarly]

Love the redline-orange combo, looks great. Cool car body too! Merry Christmas!!

[@goodgollywally]

Fantastic as always. I wish I could do this. I have restored furniture, so I understand how bringing something back to it's original form is so awesome.

[@gir0055]

I will never learn to polish and recover an old hot wheels car but yet I still watched the full length of this video

[@thomasbrown7420]

What a treat! Thank you for the holiday update

[@redskool8498]

always did and always will love these small cars and trucks and more ... thanks and have a good x-mas .. †

[@Road_Rash]

Yet another excellent resto! Awesome job!

[@johnnybtheshooter1457]

I have a whole bunch of old hot wheels and matchbox cars from the 60s and 70s from when my dad was young. A lot of them look like these restoration projects. I wish I had the time to work on them like you’ve done! Great stuff!

[@tfhackett]

I've been watching a lot of these restoration videos lately. My favorites are the ones (like this one!) of cars that I had myself when I was a kid. This one turned out beautifully! I'm thinking of taking up this hobby myself. As nice as the paint looks, I'd love to do a couple shiny, unpainted ones. Thanks for sharing your work!

[@josa1999turbo]

Perfect gift for this Christmas! Thanks man. Happy Holidays 🎉

[@TheRealColBosch]

That is an absolutely gorgeous Ford GT40. Thank you so much for sharing, and have an amazing Christmas!

[@kosmokat111]

holy crap that colour came out absolutely gorgeous

[@valborchardt3596]

Turned out really great, thanks again from South Africa

[@daverage4729]

Stunning job!

[@iambiggus]

I think the extra polishing added a nice touch to the finish. Makes the orange pop, and adds just that little extra to the shine. Great job, the extra work pays off imho. Happy and safe holidays to you and yours.

[@earllubold2505]

Excellent job. Two thumbs up!

[@antonio-tt7js]

Excelente trabajo, felíz navidad!! Saludos

[@blacknwhitecookie8967]

Love the color! Looking forward to seeing your Sweet 16 set!!

[@Boomtendo4tw]

Sweet looking color! The zink plating looks good. Sounds like a good way to make sure the car last. :)

[@roberthaydon6387]

Very happy I found your videos this year. Thanks - and Merry Christmas!

[@m.asim1206]

Merry Christmas...As always so much beautiful creativity in single video..Hats off brother

[@jeffhreid]

Sweet!! That’s one I’d want as a kid. So cool

[@broms316]

Oh my god!!!! That orange looks amaaaaazing!!!!

[@dannyb5745]

Gorgeous work !!

[@TalkingGIJoe]

J-Car... one of my favorites! Nice job on it.

[@vanthdreadstar8039]

Merry Christmas! That is a stunning result! Loved the shine from the additional polish before paint. That windshield turned out looking brand new.

[@RedLineRaceDay]

Stunning resto. Can’t wait to see more. Merry Christmas RLRD

[@robertshemory5094]

Merry Christmas. Car looks amazing.

[@BrentDewhurst]

Fantastic resto, well done!

[@udorechner6846]

That little car looks great! A very nice restauration. Merry Christmas and a happy newyYear to you, your family and all the subscribers here, where ever they live. Greetings from Germany

[@bigthd2044]

You inspired me to start restoring old models as well. Trail and error, that is how I learn. My first car had to be painted 3 times before it came out ok.

[@jjab99]

Many thanks for all the great videos throughout the year. I hope that you have a very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!!! Best of luck in 2019, Joe

[@ram8114]

Excelente trabajo, felices fiestas y saludos desde México!

[@seralouise.]

happy holidays! 💖 i love this channel so much and i cant wait to see what you have in store for 2019

[@randynovick7972]

Great stuff. Looks awesome in orange. Looking forward to seeing the whole set. Happy Christmas!

[@flutterdrive4286]

You missed a spot to paint black, its right above the other black part on the back.

[@greensun5998]

Yeah it's the section on the back of the hood, not sure if that was intentionally left out.

[@fusioncoregaming3252]

Flutterdrive ocd is kicking in

[@williamlee1429]

Have a great holiday season and I will look forward to seeing more of your great videos in the future. Keep up the good work!

[@cervasfranco]

Merry Christmas baremetal HW! I just wanna say I love watching your videos. More power to you and your channel!

[@t-murdock]

Your videos are like asmr to me. I love it. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

[@72polara]

Nice work once again. Car looks great.

[@1973Washu]

I would call it well loved condition rather than worn.

[@eugenepolan1750]

"Experienced!"

[@parky2310]

Brilliant as always - Happy Christmas to you. 👍👍

[@k.n.o.3558]

This turned out very cool! Love the orange color. 😎

[@THE_HW_MASTERS]

We found this one in blue on a Flea Market! It's a very nice car!

[@larryoquinn8708]

Beautiful job as usual.

[@bonnie8441]

Wow! Now that's what you call a restoration.

[@peterjozsef448]

This colour is awesome, great job again.👏 Merry Christmas too🌟🎄

[@rulisa1131]

That "play in the bearings" is my favorite part of these things.

[@jimmytvfclassic]

I love this restoration, very very neat one! Merry Christmas!!

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

Love it. Merry Christmas.

[@revzillo]

Great restoration custom , l love that orange colour 👍

[@birdie399]

From where I’m sitting that looks like a brilliant piece of restoration. Thanks for sharing your skills.

[@jimmyolano929]

Merry Xmas! Beautiful work!

[@126185thst]

another great restoration !! Merry Christmas !!!

[@WetSnakes1012]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and awesome work as always ... the paint job came out Flawless thanks for sharing 😁👍🏼

[@itsmewildbill2296]

Another excellent restoration, and another enjoyable and informative video! Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@David-wn9qo]

Excellent work as usual. Merry Christmas.

[@stom5292]

Windshield came out looking really good. Nice car!

[@lilchuksdiecast9689]

That window thou!👌👌✌

[@tararees5610]

That looks awesome!

[@robertbounday9846]

Great work. Very good restoration

[@NitrousDiecast]

Looks great!

[@mrhappy8966]

merry Christmas weirdly enough i discovered your channel last year around this time and it was and still is a great channel

[@bigcharliesmodelgarage296]

Looks great. Love the orange. Merry Christmas

[@00asaenz]

Awesome video. My new year's resolution is to watch every BHW video. 😁😎

[@TimeRider]

Merry Christmas, top notch as usual.

[@josephlowry4320]

That was fantastic dude, you just the J-car even more awesome and cool like ever before, have an great day.

[@railroadaddict1884]

Another excellent job!

[@diecast_MikeEspo]

MERRY CHRISTMAS . Great video's . Great work , Mike Espo...

[@horaciodiecast]

Very beautiful as always. Congrats and merry christmas

[@Quickened1]

spectacular!

[@RemedyRooty]

That's an amazing colour. Nice job overall.

[@jamesb7299]

This was my favorite car as a kid, after watching your videos, I'm hoping I can find my old collection somewhere in storage, if I do, I'm going to go through the old backpack full of cars I had and start restoring them.

[@kimcatalano183]

Love that color .

[@SweeneyDunston]

Another nice restoration. Im woth you on that passion for stickers vs water-slides. Merry Christmas!

[@speedqueenluxie]

Late night restoration vid on Christmas Eve can't get better than this. Merry Christmas Zac

[@canuckyank82]

Excellent restoration!

[@Plums72]

Great as always! Merry Christmas

[@scottsmith3499]

Nice to see you back doing another classic Hot Wheel restoration. In some of your more recent videos you seemed to be gravitating to older Matchbox cars like what Marty does on his channel. While I do enjoy those too, I feel like your gift is working with Hot Wheels, and those videos are where you really shine.

[@gunner678]

Great video,Merry Christmas! Great finish on that car!

[@Spacecowboy61975]

Cool job and colour combo

[@semiCph]

That's a great result! I think the step where you polished it before painting made a big difference - usually I see scratch marks from the steel wool on the roof, but it looks like you polished those away here.

[@boerharms2209]

Another great resto :D Merry Christmas!

[@paularmstrong4546]

Merry Christmas, luv the spectra flame orange.

[@andrewlarson6805]

Great job that looks really nice

[@jerryvr]

Nice Job! The zinc plating you do gives a great finish..