Your thoroughness in demonstrating both successes and fails is a testament to you as a teacher and one who inspires. Always enjoy the bit of humor you interject.
A lovely simple model. Nothing flashy or fancy, just a typical car like your dad might drive. BareMetalHW did a lovely customization on this model but yours gave it just the right amount of TLC to let the beauty of the original toy shine through. Thanks for another great restoration!
Hey Marty, another brilliant video!! Love your work - as always spot on and I actually laugh out loud watching - you must have the same sense of humour as me. My wife always calls out when she hears me laughing and asks what can be so funny about watching a matchbox restoration vid. Looking forward to the next restoration.
Hi Marty I'm an old ewp teacher (Technical school) To assist starting the tap after drilling set the car body in the drill vice and the tap in the drill chuck turn the chuck by hand for a couple of turns then use the tap handle. another tip never have your hand below the drill because if it brakes you now where it will finish up still its you hand so go for it . Thanks for the videos and I love the comments at the end
ThankYou for the nice Sunday afternoon restoration video beautyful job like Always. Also thanks for your reaction for ordering the decals and hook for the Matchbox no 13. Greetings from Holland
Marty, I live about 25 mins from South Bend, Indiana where the Studebakers were manufactured for many years. I was a child of the 80's and had hundreds of Matchbox and Hotwheels cars in my collection. They are all long gone now though. I had a friend that his dad let us play with some of his old Matchbox. I remember a Lark wagon very similar to this one with a dog in the back, I also remember the ice cream truck! I am really enjoying your videos and hope you keep cranking them out at a fast rate! I have nearly watched all of them now.
Got a lesney coming in the mail I’m gonna give it a go. My hobby is normally riding and fixing old brit motorcycles but this seems like it be a relaxing when the bike restorations gets frustrating. Thanks for the inspiration.
So i was drinking Lithuanian grapefruit beer when watching this and shot beer out my nostrils when you dropped the hobby knife in your foot. Just fyi, it burns. Love the Studebarker Lark, thanks for doing the resto!
Hi Marty, Ouch, be careful with your hobby knife. Hope the wife was nearby with a band-aid. Another excellent restore of a classic Matchbox model, well done and thank you for sharing the video. Cheers, Rich S.
Beautiful work, yet again. I'm really enjoying this series! I'd almost forgotten what a handsome vehicle the Studebaker Lark was. You've got the colour bang on. I just might have to get myself one, now. Thanks!
I enjoy your videos , voice over explanations, first rate details. Others videos, of the same ilk, are a bit slap-dash. Looking forward to more. Thank you
Excellent restoration! A repaint and polish makes such a difference to these Matchboxes. I have one as well. Came in a job lot, and was missing the tow hook. Got a repro. plastic towhook for it. The paint is not too bad on mine, so I left it as is for now. I noticed too, while drilling it apart that the rear rivet post is very close to the edge of the sloping tailgate, and does not leave much room to tap a thread for a screw. While I had the interior out, I swapped over the steering wheel to make it right hand drive. Studebakers like this Lark were assembled by AMI (Australian Motor Industries) in Port Melbourne and sold here. It now displays hitched up to a #38 Honda motorcycle and trailer.
What's up Marty. Looks awesome, totally agree with the paint thinner being necessary to prevent clumps. I could recommend giving it a quick wet sand and buff job as well, I think it deserves it👌
Beautiful makeover. Love the color of the paint. On camera sometimes it doesn’t look quite the same shade as original but your mix is actually much better!
I would have added a bit of red to the tail lights just to finish it off, another excellent job, with a bit of humour added. People on a car forum I'm on are starting to use your tips when restoring diecasts too.
Yet another great resto. from "Mr. Matchbox"!! 😉 👏. As someone who is apparently open to suggestions... might I suggest that you save both time and potential damage by foregoing the tap process and just drill the holes and use a suitable self-tapping screw. I mean, it's not like these cars are likely to be disassembled again and even if they are... a self-tapper will still allow easy access. Just a thought! Keep bringing these little chunks of "rusty gold" back to life!! 👍
That is an amazing idea!!! - Thanks so much Roger, I shall be sourcing some self tappers as soon as I find some that are suitable! :) Could save me some heartache!
I had one of these Marty. Great video on the restoration. Looks like critters have been living in it! There was an ambulance version of this model. The cool thing is the actual full size vehicle on which this model I based.
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing. Your vids have inspired me to try my hand at restoring an old matchbox. I ordered one off Ebay (a 1970 Dodge Charger Mk3) and I can't wait until it shows up in the mailbox. I've got all my materials from other modeling projects already, so I'm ready to go once the car arrives. I've done complex models and projects over the years, but I've come to realize that I get far more satisfaction from the simple ones that only take a day or so to complete. With luck, restoring Matchboxes will satisfy my "busy hands" . And it's not very expensive since most cars can be had for around $5 and a few bucks for paint + a couple of hours. Again, thank you for sharing and inspiring. Keep up the good work!
To color match I've found it to be easier to cut a hole in the sample card and then place it over the object I want to match. It's very easy then to see how close the color is. This way you don't have any distracting patterns, shadows, or other colors to fool the brain.
Best yet. Nicely done. Love the color and appreciate the detail you paint in. Easy to forget these are 1/64th when watching on the 42" Sony. Also, you are crazy as a bedbug! BE CAREFUL WITH KNIVES!!! :-D
Such a lovely work and Hobby. I regret having sold my complete Matchbox King Size Collection, but I kept 48 vehicles of the regular wheels and the superfast wheels.
I just want to say how much I am LOVING your channel. I'm not really a Matchbox collector (I do model railroading, but a lot of your techniques are helpful for that) but there is a very special place in my heard for Matchbox. When I was a kid, Matchbox was what my parents would get for us kids ("Hot Wheels" were just a bit too "radical" for their tastes) and any small car like toy, we would just call "matchbox cars" as a generic term... so an off brand? Matchbox car. Hot Wheels that got snuck in? Still a "matchbox"... A lot of the cars you work on are ones I had as a child... I'm waiting for you to do a garbage truck... my grand mother (who was Native American, straight off the reservation) would get us kids Matchbox cars when we would visit... and I remember her getting me a garbage truck, with a working back end... and I remember we were told not to take advantage of our grandmother, which us kids took to mean that it would be rude to accept gifts she would give us, but, at five years old, a penny was something irresistible for whatever reason... so in order for her to get me to acceot that little garbage truck, she put a penny in it. I know... strange story, right? My brother was a fan of Hot Wheels, because of how fast they would go in comparison, so if I ever got one, he would trade a couple of Matchbox cars for the Hot Wheels car... then we would race them... I don't think I ever won a race, but, my cars had MUCH better details, and you could find my cars in real life on the streets... These are the sorts of memories your channel brings up for me, and the videos are just... oddly satisfying. Thanks for sharing your work!
Oh, and funny it's called a station wagon... I thought that was only an American term... fun fact, the first "station wagon" was actually a Ford Model T "Taxi"... it had a wooden carriage to it so it could fit four passengers, and got the name "Station Wagon (much to Ford wanting it to be called a Taxi) because most people hired them to come pick them, and their luggage up from their homes, to take them to the local train station. So the name sort of stuck for any wood paneled vehicle that was meant to transport a bunch of people, that wasn't quite a bus.
Richard, thank you so much for your very informative and interesting comment. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I hope many of my subscribers feel the nostalgia that you have felt from my videos.
i always love that you include a screw when drilling out the rivet.....for future maintenance...usually those toys are just riveted shut and when broken you have to shug it. Love the idea of future use.........recycling as it should be!!!
Enjoy the videos even though I'm on the other side of the world. Here in Michigan we do some manufacturing. I noticed your tapping process. With a simple piece of angle iron you make a centering fixture. If put a wide rubber band around the lower part of the fixture it will cushion the part. Place car in the vice with the angle iron to locate hole. Just drill a hole at the common location. If there are multiples, make several holes. This should aid in a straight drilling process.
That trick you did to the tow hitch is the same thing my uncle used to do. But he did it on motorcycles! One day, many years ago, he got a sports bike (CBR or something like that) and all the panels were broken. He managed to fix it with the same method you used and it looked new at the end of it!
Another great job!! I have that model and I believe it came with two dogs and a hunter holding a rifle. Your car looks better then mine. Keep up the GREAT VIEDOS, they help me to remember when I colleted my 75.
I got one of these in 1968 and still have it in original condition, with box. Still, your restoration is quite a bit more attractive. Thank you always for your great work and amusing videos.
Beautifully enunciated. I think that accent is called, “Queensland International“ Nicely done and good to see that you don’t take it all to seriously. Once your sense of humour is drier that a pommies towel, you are true blue.
In a way I'm glad to see them in such a poor 'before' state because it shows they were well played with as originally intended. Seeing them then rescued and restored like new completes the 'circle of life', so to speak.
Marty, I'm a seventy year old Yank who used to collect the Lesney / Matchbox vehicles when I was a kid. Sometimes I would take them apart and repaint them with Testor's spray enamel; and sometimes, I would remove the body of some one of them and mount them on an HO scale electric model chassis and use them on a race track. Due to the weight of the diecast bodies, they weren't very fast, but they sure looked cool. This wasn't an original idea in my part, I read about how to do this in a magazine devoted to HO scale cars. There was one truck which I believe was called a Delivery Lorry, it was a deep maroon in color, it was my favorite. Thanks for your videos, I will get to all of them Roy
Here's a tip Marty. Try using a countersink bit to drill out those rivets. I think you'll find it perfect, and no need to change bits, too. Keep up the great work. AWESOME!
Stumbled onto your channel and really enjoyed a few videos. Love this one and it reminded me I had a Studebaker Lark Wagonaire of my very own in desperate need of restoration. Just the nudge I needed to begin my first restoration and embark on an entirely new hobby. (My wife & kids think I've gone mad... so thanks for that!) I hope your foot is okay. Cheers!
Suggestion: Look into buying a ‘bottom tap’. Those are designed to tap all the way to the bottom of the hole you drilled. The one you use does NOT tap threads to the bottom of the hole. The one you want has a flat bottom, the one you use has a pointy bottom.
Definitely gave the old Stude it's soul back, I can tell he's much happier now
The hits keep coming, Marty! I truly look forward to your outstanding restorations.
Your thoroughness in demonstrating both successes and fails is a testament to you as a teacher and one who inspires. Always enjoy the bit of humor you interject.
THANK YOU...for sharing. Marty another great save.
You are welcome!
A lovely simple model. Nothing flashy or fancy, just a typical car like your dad might drive. BareMetalHW did a lovely customization on this model but yours gave it just the right amount of TLC to let the beauty of the original toy shine through. Thanks for another great restoration!
Mighty job! Thank you for yet another loving restauration.
How to enjoy the weekend. Well done Marty!
These videos are weirdly addictive! I love your work Marty! Keep them coming!
Another great renovation. A very shiny result. Thanks.
Dude , Blood...Sweat...and tears, in restoring. ...
GREAT joy!
Everybody can buy or destroy; only very few can restore. Thank you Marty
Another brilliant restoration Marty.
Thanks Ivan :D
Hey Marty, another brilliant video!! Love your work - as always spot on and I actually laugh out loud watching - you must have the same sense of humour as me. My wife always calls out when she hears me laughing and asks what can be so funny about watching a matchbox restoration vid. Looking forward to the next restoration.
So glad that you enjoy the humour elements!
I love the old Studebakers. Wish I'd been born twenty years younger, I'd have bought one..... or more!
It’s always nice to see the magic you do. Really great job Marty. And again I love the blooper at the end.
Brilliant. As kids we were always fascinated by any opening features, and I remember this one well for the sliding rear roof section.
It was a really neat feature on the real car too! 👍
Hi Marty I'm an old ewp teacher (Technical school) To assist starting the tap after drilling set the car body in the drill vice and the tap in the drill chuck turn the chuck by hand for a couple of turns then use the tap handle. another tip never have your hand below the drill because if it brakes you now where it will finish up still its you hand so go for it .
Thanks for the videos and I love the comments at the end
Ouch, your foot! Great work BTW!
ThankYou for the nice Sunday afternoon restoration video beautyful job like Always. Also thanks for your reaction for ordering the decals and hook for the Matchbox no 13. Greetings from Holland
You are most welcome!
Keep the videos coming, these cars take me back to my childhood. Well done mate
Will do Chris.
Gee I am glade that I am not the only one who bit of a problem reassembling models,another fantastic job done do enjoy your videos.
Marty, I live about 25 mins from South Bend, Indiana where the Studebakers were manufactured for many years. I was a child of the 80's and had hundreds of Matchbox and Hotwheels cars in my collection. They are all long gone now though. I had a friend that his dad let us play with some of his old Matchbox. I remember a Lark wagon very similar to this one with a dog in the back, I also remember the ice cream truck! I am really enjoying your videos and hope you keep cranking them out at a fast rate! I have nearly watched all of them now.
Colour match looks pretty much spot on. Nice job.
Always nice to see your work Marty. Great job!
Got a lesney coming in the mail I’m gonna give it a go. My hobby is normally riding and fixing old brit motorcycles but this seems like it be a relaxing when the bike restorations gets frustrating. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome job Marty! Love your attention to detail.
HA! I did the exact same thing with that kind of knife once... a long, long time ago. I just yanked it out, bled a lot and lived.
Nice job, Marty. Love the color - colour.
Ab Fab, Marty. You are the gold standard of Matchbox restoration.
Big improvement! Good job!
Dirty matchbox car Happy/ Healthy childhood.
yet another great job, i admire your skill and patience, and i would love to see your model display of your restorations,
Great job, Marty! Nice to see you got a new toothbrush for cleaning!
Best example of why you should wear shoes when you're using a modelling knife I've seen in a while lol. Greetings from NSW.
Ha! Ha! - YES! :D
Brother did that many years ago...straight through his boot and into his foot, those blades are soooooo sharp leather won't stop it
I saw one of these done on a different channel. He repainted it in yellow. He did a nice job, but I think I like the blue better.
Think that was baremetalHW channel and yeah the blue looks way better.
An original colour the blue. I try to restore my models as close as possible to their original condition.
@@Tiger351 I thought it was him, but I wasn't completely certain.
So i was drinking Lithuanian grapefruit beer when watching this and shot beer out my nostrils when you dropped the hobby knife in your foot. Just fyi, it burns.
Love the Studebarker Lark, thanks for doing the resto!
Hi Marty, Ouch, be careful with your hobby knife. Hope the wife was nearby with a band-aid. Another excellent restore of a classic Matchbox model, well done and thank you for sharing the video. Cheers, Rich S.
Beautiful work, yet again. I'm really enjoying this series! I'd almost forgotten what a handsome vehicle the Studebaker Lark was. You've got the colour bang on. I just might have to get myself one, now. Thanks!
it warms my heart seeing these old cars that have seen a lot of playtime get cleaned and fixed up.
Love the outakes as much as I do the restoration footage!
I enjoy your videos , voice over explanations, first rate details. Others videos, of the same ilk, are a bit slap-dash. Looking forward to more. Thank you
Just going back over Marty's older videos - He's really improved his video presentation, he's got so much more confident! Great stuff!
Excellent restoration! A repaint and polish makes such a difference to these Matchboxes. I have one as well. Came in a job lot, and was missing the tow hook. Got a repro. plastic towhook for it. The paint is not too bad on mine, so I left it as is for now. I noticed too, while drilling it apart that the rear rivet post is very close to the edge of the sloping tailgate, and does not leave much room to tap a thread for a screw. While I had the interior out, I swapped over the steering wheel to make it right hand drive. Studebakers like this Lark were assembled by AMI (Australian Motor Industries) in Port Melbourne and sold here. It now displays hitched up to a #38 Honda motorcycle and trailer.
I am so glad you left the bit with the hobby knife in the video. Thanks for the laugh! Hope your foot is better soon.
Very nice Finished model.
What's up Marty. Looks awesome, totally agree with the paint thinner being necessary to prevent clumps. I could recommend giving it a quick wet sand and buff job as well, I think it deserves it👌
Nice colour matching,amazing all together Marty!
Your inspirational videos have given me a new hobby. Always enjoy watching them,keep them coming as I am learning a lot of tips from you.
Nice job Marty you nailed the colorspot on ! Paint job came out great.
Beautiful makeover. Love the color of the paint. On camera sometimes it doesn’t look quite the same shade as original but your mix is actually much better!
Out of all the cars you have done so far this is one I would like to own. Great job!
Thanks james!
Well done Marty!! Looks beautiful!!
The paint turned out so well!
It is insane the knife landed in your foot face down.. Ouch. Feel better and great restoration
Marty, I really enjoy your work. You really bring the models back to life. Keep up the good work and watch those flying knives!
I would have added a bit of red to the tail lights just to finish it off, another excellent job, with a bit of humour added. People on a car forum I'm on are starting to use your tips when restoring diecasts too.
That's fantastic news!!! - Glad I could help!
Love the vids. A trip down memory lane. Careful with the Xacto knife Marty!
Yet another great resto. from "Mr. Matchbox"!! 😉 👏. As someone who is apparently open to suggestions... might I suggest that you save both time and potential damage by foregoing the tap process and just drill the holes and use a suitable self-tapping screw. I mean, it's not like these cars are likely to be disassembled again and even if they are... a self-tapper will still allow easy access. Just a thought! Keep bringing these little chunks of "rusty gold" back to life!! 👍
That is an amazing idea!!! - Thanks so much Roger, I shall be sourcing some self tappers as soon as I find some that are suitable! :) Could save me some heartache!
I was born 1971 I seen those cars in demolition races so cool to see a restore on a matchbox car,,,takes me back in time.
What an accident with the exacto knife.. great job on the model!
I had one of these Marty. Great video on the restoration. Looks like critters have been living in it! There was an ambulance version of this model. The cool thing is the actual full size vehicle on which this model I based.
Beautiful restoration Marty, I have a few of these to restore at some point.
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing.
Your vids have inspired me to try my hand at restoring an old matchbox. I ordered one off Ebay (a 1970 Dodge Charger Mk3) and I can't wait until it shows up in the mailbox. I've got all my materials from other modeling projects already, so I'm ready to go once the car arrives.
I've done complex models and projects over the years, but I've come to realize that I get far more satisfaction from the simple ones that only take a day or so to complete. With luck, restoring Matchboxes will satisfy my "busy hands" . And it's not very expensive since most cars can be had for around $5 and a few bucks for paint + a couple of hours.
Again, thank you for sharing and inspiring. Keep up the good work!
I wish you well with your new found hobby:)
To color match I've found it to be easier to cut a hole in the sample card and then place it over the object I want to match. It's very easy then to see how close the color is. This way you don't have any distracting patterns, shadows, or other colors to fool the brain.
I like your suggestion, thanks for that might give it a go!
Now there's a tip I can use. Thanks for that!
Hi Marty , because of you I’ve just completed my first restoration of a dinky Mersey tunnel Land Rover . Thanks again Marty
EXCELLENT!!
Another great job Marty. Thanks letting us know the metric sizes of drills, taps and screws.
Best yet. Nicely done. Love the color and appreciate the detail you paint in. Easy to forget these are 1/64th when watching on the 42" Sony.
Also, you are crazy as a bedbug! BE CAREFUL WITH KNIVES!!! :-D
Hope your safe from the fires. You and your whole country are in my prayers!
Great work. I love the path you're talking on the videos, it's great to have the music at that volume!
I have two of these. Beautiful job as always. Thank you for sharing
Such a lovely work and Hobby. I regret having sold my complete Matchbox King Size Collection, but I kept 48 vehicles of the regular wheels and the superfast wheels.
I had that model. I distinctly remember that the sliding room on mine was gray plastic.
Fantastic paintwork!!
Thanks Bill.
Another fine restoration Marty
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My father worked at Studebaker. Great job!
Love the restoration work. You’re getting really professional with all of it including the video editing! 👏👏👏
I just want to say how much I am LOVING your channel. I'm not really a Matchbox collector (I do model railroading, but a lot of your techniques are helpful for that) but there is a very special place in my heard for Matchbox. When I was a kid, Matchbox was what my parents would get for us kids ("Hot Wheels" were just a bit too "radical" for their tastes) and any small car like toy, we would just call "matchbox cars" as a generic term... so an off brand? Matchbox car. Hot Wheels that got snuck in? Still a "matchbox"...
A lot of the cars you work on are ones I had as a child... I'm waiting for you to do a garbage truck... my grand mother (who was Native American, straight off the reservation) would get us kids Matchbox cars when we would visit... and I remember her getting me a garbage truck, with a working back end... and I remember we were told not to take advantage of our grandmother, which us kids took to mean that it would be rude to accept gifts she would give us, but, at five years old, a penny was something irresistible for whatever reason... so in order for her to get me to acceot that little garbage truck, she put a penny in it. I know... strange story, right?
My brother was a fan of Hot Wheels, because of how fast they would go in comparison, so if I ever got one, he would trade a couple of Matchbox cars for the Hot Wheels car... then we would race them... I don't think I ever won a race, but, my cars had MUCH better details, and you could find my cars in real life on the streets...
These are the sorts of memories your channel brings up for me, and the videos are just... oddly satisfying.
Thanks for sharing your work!
Oh, and funny it's called a station wagon... I thought that was only an American term... fun fact, the first "station wagon" was actually a Ford Model T "Taxi"... it had a wooden carriage to it so it could fit four passengers, and got the name "Station Wagon (much to Ford wanting it to be called a Taxi) because most people hired them to come pick them, and their luggage up from their homes, to take them to the local train station. So the name sort of stuck for any wood paneled vehicle that was meant to transport a bunch of people, that wasn't quite a bus.
Richard, thank you so much for your very informative and interesting comment. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I hope many of my subscribers feel the nostalgia that you have felt from my videos.
i always love that you include a screw when drilling out the rivet.....for future maintenance...usually those toys are just riveted shut and when broken you have to shug it.
Love the idea of future use.........recycling as it should be!!!
Enjoy the videos even though I'm on the other side of the world. Here in Michigan we do some manufacturing. I noticed your tapping process. With a simple piece of angle iron you make a centering fixture. If put a wide rubber band around the lower part of the fixture it will cushion the part. Place car in the vice with the angle iron to locate hole. Just drill a hole at the common location. If there are multiples, make several holes. This should aid in a straight drilling process.
Thanks Shawn but leaning towards self tapping screws from now on in!
That trick you did to the tow hitch is the same thing my uncle used to do. But he did it on motorcycles! One day, many years ago, he got a sports bike (CBR or something like that) and all the panels were broken. He managed to fix it with the same method you used and it looked new at the end of it!
Another great job!! I have that model and I believe it came with two dogs and a hunter holding a rifle. Your car looks better then mine. Keep up the GREAT VIEDOS, they help me to remember when I colleted my 75.
I got one of these in 1968 and still have it in original condition, with box. Still, your restoration is quite a bit more attractive. Thank you always for your great work and amusing videos.
Beautifully enunciated. I think that accent is called, “Queensland International“ Nicely done and good to see that you don’t take it all to seriously. Once your sense of humour is drier that a pommies towel, you are true blue.
In a way I'm glad to see them in such a poor 'before' state because it shows they were well played with as originally intended. Seeing them then rescued and restored like new completes the 'circle of life', so to speak.
Marty, I'm a seventy year old Yank who used to collect the Lesney / Matchbox vehicles when I was a kid. Sometimes I would take them apart and repaint them with Testor's spray enamel; and sometimes, I would remove the body of some one of them and mount them on an HO scale electric model chassis and use them on a race track. Due to the weight of the diecast bodies, they weren't very fast, but they sure looked cool. This wasn't an original idea in my part, I read about how to do this in a magazine devoted to HO scale cars. There was one truck which I believe was called a Delivery Lorry, it was a deep maroon in color, it was my favorite. Thanks for your videos, I will get to all of them
Roy
I like the bloopers !! Great work by the way !!
Thanks!
Love the bloopers at the end of your videos. LMAO !!!!! Another awesome restoration Sir
Thanks Jerry! - It shows I'm only human! :)
Scapel in the foot ......,ouch 😲..... Great colour match Marty, you nailed it mate 👍
All your missing is the dog and the hunter that came with the car when new. At least mine did , which I still have 😎
Yeah I am gonna buy a replacement set to make mine complete.
Probably the best looking restoration youve done yet, post an update when you get the dog and hunter
Will do a cameo appearance in another vid to show the completed model.
Nice color collection Marty nice work
Sweet👌 My dad had an actual 64 Cruiser sedan in similar colour (white roof though). Iconic Studebaker traits: even at that scale😎
Here's a tip Marty.
Try using a countersink bit to drill out those rivets.
I think you'll find it perfect, and no need to change bits, too.
Keep up the great work.
AWESOME!
That paint color is spot on!
Nice work!!
Thanks Pablo!
Well done Marty , again a awesome Job done
Best Regards
Marco
Very nice work. Love these videos! I was so inspired that I’ve purchased one of these 42b Studebaker Larks to restore myself.
Stumbled onto your channel and really enjoyed a few videos. Love this one and it reminded me I had a Studebaker Lark Wagonaire of my very own in desperate need of restoration. Just the nudge I needed to begin my first restoration and embark on an entirely new hobby. (My wife & kids think I've gone mad... so thanks for that!) I hope your foot is okay. Cheers!
Thanks Jeffrey. My foot is fine (I used a stunt double)!
Suggestion: Look into buying a ‘bottom tap’. Those are designed to tap all the way to the bottom of the hole you drilled. The one you use does NOT tap threads to the bottom of the hole. The one you want has a flat bottom, the one you use has a pointy bottom.
Good info Steve - I will do some more homework!
Absolutely perfect work. my friend. Hopefully your still doing these, very enjoyable to watch.