Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Mixed Grill - From London , England - GRIZZMAKES world

[Grizz1963]

Rian
What can I say? Fantastic job! Great work of art! Bravo!

I also really enjoyed the slick video!

This car will definitely grab attention even from those who are not into this kind of artwork. I am sure it will be featured in many selfies every time it is parked anywhere in public.

The new Jewelry aka wheels are icing on the cake! Great choice!

Looking forward to seeing the progress on the C10 project!

Selfie ?



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[gman007]

Selfie ?.

A portrait of a proud and beaming father with a million dollar smile and his baby!

 

[patlun]

So when is a reveal not a REVEAL in the true sense ??

I would say, when you have been following the evolution step by step.

In this case, it it when the masking came off the glass, wheel inner arches, sills, lights, rear view mirrors and various other bits wrapped for 5 weeks.

So on Friday I actually had a bit of a hectic day, including the unmasking.
I still had jobs to do, like the aluminium window frame sections I painted on Saturday.
I also got involved in a Facebook Marketplace battle, thanks to my friend @pauly spending my money.

I have decided to edit a short 6 minute video which has a load of IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION that you need to know if you actually read the words and text that takes me hours to create on here because I not adding that information into the “REVEAL” on here.

Anyway, I eventually got to drive the Oldsmobile out from its paint shop just after 5.00 because Pedro had actually made it home and went to inspect the unmasked car.

Watch this video.

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HELL, I AM STUCK AT 920-ish SUBSCRIBERS.

PLEASE.


Photos

I will upload a bunch taken in the garden.

Hope you like it.




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That paint job and effort are worth full size pictures. I really loves the result and while I normally don't notice wheels on a car, in this case I think you will become yet happier with something else than them on the car.

 

[Grizz1963]

That paint job and effort are worth full size pictures. I really loves the result and while I normally don't notice wheels on a car, in this case I think you will become yet happier with something else than them on the car.

Thank you.


Have you watched the Video??


I highly recommend watching it.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I am truly amazed at your artistry! In the US, a car painted like that would probably have about 26" deep dish wheels with 5% sidewall aspect ratio (exaggeration). I hope you don't go that way. I am anxiously awaiting your artistic replacement of the "cop car" wheels.

 

[patlun]

Thank you.


Have you watched the Video??


I highly recommend watching it.

I have now, waited to after dinner. Well worth the wait and watch. Nice!

Edit: You get an new subscriber. I thought I was subscribing already

 

[Grizz1963]

I am truly amazed at your artistry! In the US, a car painted like that would probably have about 26" deep dish wheels with 5% sidewall aspect ratio (exaggeration). I hope you don't go that way. I am anxiously awaiting your artistic replacement of the "cop car" wheels.

Hi Jeff
You have been quiet.

This is the change coming.

I don’t like extremes.

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[Grizz1963]

I have now, waited to after dinner. Well worth the wait and watch. Nice!

Edit: You get an new subscriber. I thought I was subscribing already

Thank you for both watching and subscribing

 

[Grizz1963]

Well gang…..

Good news or bad news first?

Let me know.


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[Finallygotit]

Bad news

 

[gman007]

Good news only!

For some strange reason, man kind in general seems to crave bad news! For example If there is a plane crash anywhere in the world, it is broadcasted around the world ! Why not broadcast how many 10s of thousands of flights did not crash that day !

GJ was created to share only good news!

 

[Grizz1963]

Bad news

Good news only!

For some strange reason, man kind in general seems to crave bad news! For example If there is a plane crash anywhere in the world, it is broadcasted around the world ! Why not broadcast how many 10s of thousands of flights did not crash that day !

GJ was created to share only good news!

True.






Picture 🟰 1000 words

 

[gman007]

True.






Picture 🟰 1000 words

True
But did you pay ?

 

[Grizz1963]

True
But did you pay ?

I paid and tipped.

£55.00 and won a new fresh MOT till 15/05/2027


Impulsively took the Olds for a walk in test.

Well, I had ensured everything was working before setting out. Don’t we all ??


My new wheel fitting failed because Zacks daughter got sick at school and he had to collect her.

I will go in on Saturday or Tuesday

 

[TomGW]

Looks great Rian. Watched and subscribed.

 

[Grizz1963]

Looks great Rian. Watched and subscribed.

Hi Tom

Thank you and Thank you.

 

[Grizz1963]

Back to Thursday night.

My long suffering friend PaulY and I have regular chats, usually when he is driving to the station to collect his daughter or others.

On Thursday he asked me about the reveal and what my plans were with the Freelander three spoke wheels that are resident in Shropshire.

I have still not been able get them down to Kent from Sandford.

So he started picking at my mind and wallet.
Doing man maths.
I may protest but in truth it was always written in the stars that I would have these wheels.

I had contacted the seller on 2nd March to discuss possibly making an offer but she told me to ****** off in no uncertain terms. I would have done the same. These wheels first came on my radar in early December and had been advertised for £750.00 for a while at that point. So on Friday morning 10th April, early morning, I sent the seller this offer to purchase the wheels if they were still available: “
Hi @Caitlan
Would you consider an offer of cash for the wheels, collected today if they are still available?
I am in Allhallows, so not too far for quick collection”

She took her time to reply (I actually thought she had decided to block me because of the previous communication 6 weeks before)

At 13.30 I got the following reply:
“Hi Rian, I’ve spoken to my partner and he is willing to sell to you today. What time was you thinking of collecting please?”
A few more messages exchanged, I fetched the cash from the safe and went over to collect the wheels a few hours later.

Joe, the seller knew that he had wheels that make good money when you have a buyer, but told me they had tried to sell since before November.

Old style wheels and no center caps made them much less than ideal.

Still, these are the most expensive wheels I’ve ever bought, except for the total on my S10 wheels that was £900.00 by the time I got them fitted.

The great news about these wheels was the center bore, that varies between 66 and 74mm were the bigger size, the Oldsmobile has a 70.3mm CB.

So I just needed to buy some spigot rings and 20 collared wheel nuts. (@mr big would sort this out for me.)

No center caps made it a bit of a thing, but more about this later.


So I paid the man, loaded the wheels in the Scenic and headed home to continue unmasking the car.

I also gloated by myself and thanked PaulY for having his fingers in my walket again.

The tyres as you can see are very good too.

Friends…… we need them sometimes.

Pictures.


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[Finallygotit]

Looks like you stole those. How old are the tires?

 

[gooned]

Watched the video, loved all the pictures, great work Rian!!

Will really pop once the new rims are on it.

 

[Ford52PU]

Watched your video tonight. Pretty amazing job on the paint. Definitely an improvement over how it looked when you purchased it.
Everyone should jump over to YouTube and check out Rians hard work

 

[Grizz1963]

Looks like you stole those. How old are the tires?

I paid as much for them as half the cars price. And with paint, batteries, fresh tyres, parts, the car is now closer to three times the cost (value is different) of when I started.
Tyres are 28 years old

Watched the video, loved all the pictures, great work Rian!!

Will really pop once the new rims are on it.

Thanks for watching. I think it is not too long.

Rims maybe later today.

Watched your video tonight. Pretty amazing job on the paint. Definitely an improvement over how it looked when you purchased it.
Everyone should jump over to YouTube and check out Rians hard work

Thank you for the recommendation.

And I agree, looks better.

Original color was pretty yucky.

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[Grizz1963]

So with my automotive ********* realised in buying the wheels, I had a few things to deal with.


First……. They were grubby, oxidised, dirty.
Many people would not notice it. I had of course. So cleaning them up was my priority.

Second…… Alloy wheel nuts. I needed to find some and buy them to attach the wheels. Originals? Definitely not.

Third……. Spigot rings. To reduce center bore to 70.3mm because these are hub centric wheels.

Fourth……. Centre caps. I knew they were unobtainable or criminally expensive. So 3D printing, adapting others, making some were alternatives.

Maybe some jobs could wait till after dinner. Others……??? A day or two


So I left the wheels alone while I continued with the car.

Two were silver backed, two were black.

So I decided to paint the rears of the remaining two black as well. Looks much better.


Saturday afternoon at just about exactly 13.00 the job of polishing started.

I used Autosol metal polish, done so all my life. It goes a very long way.

Once the ally was buffed up and oxidation removed, I followed up with three applications of Poorboys wheel sealant.

I had used it on the S10’s ZQ8 alloys when they were refurbished. And also on the Astro vans Billet Center Line alloys once I had polished them back into life.

I did a short video of the wheels’ cleanup for those interested in that with some explaining.


VIDEO HERE

Photos probably won’t get you to feel what my hands felt like, but you can see the pain is worth the process.


More about points 2, 3, 4 later.



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[Finallygotit]

Those wheels look freakin' great after your hard work!

 

[Grizz1963]

Went for a drive.

Took some pictures.

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[Grizz1963]

Those wheels look freakin' great after your hard work!

Happy

Happy

Happy for sure.

 

[Grizz1963]

Few more little things to do.

@mrbig sent me some collared wheel nuts and the spigot rings for adapting centre bore were delivered.

Wheels not having center caps is obviously not ideal.

Looking at various options online, Aliexpress, which I have not used before has some 150mm center caps.

I also ordered some center bore mini caps at 75mm to use initially until I figured out next steps.

Another small job, two of the alloys were silver backed and two were black. So I decided to paint them black too.

Much better.

I ordered a new aluminium front license plate to fit.

I know everyone has an opinion and the eagle eyed amongst you will see that it is slightly smaller than the original.

Aesthetically it will please me more.

Legally……. ??

It’s a scooter sized legal plate.

I fitted that this week as well.

Pictures


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[PugetDude]

You are getting pretty good at this painting thing...

 

[gman007]

Few more little things to do..

These small things are icing on a cake that already looks delicious! Well done!

 

[littlebean]

Looking really good

 

[Grizz1963]

You are getting pretty good at this painting thing...

Hmmmmmmm.

I am glad I got you fooled

Thanks.

Just takes a lot of time and some luck.

During all the time I was painting colours, I only had three bugs landing in it.

Clear lacquer coat no 1 🟰 10 bugs or more

Coats 2, 3, 4, 5, 6………

Body count kept stacking up.

These small things are icing on a cake that already looks delicious! Well done!

For sure.

They do satisfy the eye too.

Looking really good

Thank you.

 

[Grizz1963]

Fitting those ****** wheels

Who has been waiting patiently??

After getting let down by a child getting sick at school and forcing her dad to collect her, I decided that waiting till Tuesday for a tyre shop conveniently to fit my wheels, just didn’t fit into my impatient personality.

So I recorded it on video.

I made it short.

Watch it.

I had started the day with doing an edit of 81 minutes of footage into something those who don’t watch the videos will never realise or understand.

Still 90 minutes of editing becomes 35 minutes.

And prayers for subscribers to push me over the 1000 subscriber number.

1000

Back to the wheels at hand.

Lifted one side and swapped the wheels, added spigot rings to downsize center bores and fitted the new to me lug nuts from @mrbig

Dropped the car…….


PANICKED.


It’s so tall.

Too much air and light.

Went around, did the other side.

Rear tyres are toast it seems.

Then moved the Oldsmobile to the front.

Video quality compromised by loads of traffic out front.


Car needs lowering.


Sad fact.


More about the altitude adjustment numbers coming later.

Stand by, and go look at what you think needs doing.



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[gman007]

Rian
Even without lowering , those wheels and tires look a perfect match for the Olds and the paint job scheme. What is your plan for lowering? Are you going to just cut the springs or use a lowering kit?

Also, the date code of these tires seems to be first week of 2017. Luckily in US, there are no laws regarding the age of tires. I am wondering in UK where it seems there are laws just about everything (probably including how many times a min one is allowed to breathe ), are there any such rules?

 

[gman007]

Please ignore my last question, per mr AI, there are no tire age laws for cars in UK

 

[Grizz1963]

Rian
Even without lowering , those wheels and tires look a perfect match for the Olds and the paint job scheme. What is your plan for lowering? Are you going to just cut the springs or use a lowering kit?

Also, the date code of these tires seems to be first week of 2017. Luckily in US, there are no laws regarding the age of tires. I am wondering in UK where it seems there are laws just about everything (probably including how many times a min one is allowed to breathe ), are there any such rules?

Stop zooming.

If I had known you were going to zoooom in, I’d have glued some of Georges fur around the date stamp


Much thinking to be done.


Taller sidewalls may be an option.

 

[gman007]

Stop zooming.

Hey, do you know how many photos I had to zoom in on, before I could find the date code ?

 

[PugetDude]

Hey, do you know how many photos I had to zoom in on, before I could find the date code ?

The kitty hair around it would have made it easier...

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I would be interested to know the outside diameter of the black wheels and the outside diameter of the tires on the black wheels you removed and the same dimensions on the gold wheels and tires. To my non-artist eyes, I don't think you need to lower the car, but just use tires with a taller aspect ratio than the ones currently on the gold wheels.

 

[Grizz1963]

I would be interested to know the outside diameter of the black wheels and the outside diameter of the tires on the black wheels you removed and the same dimensions on the gold wheels and tires. To my non-artist eyes, I don't think you need to lower the car, but just use tires with a taller aspect ratio than the ones currently on the gold wheels.

Hi Jeff

Look at the photos I posted earlier with dimensions.

It’s all there.

 

[ChefRex]

What color will you do for a center cap?
Will it be only a center cap or cover the lug nuts?
I like the exposed lugs and thinking the pinkish color you used against the gold would tie it in but I do not have the vision you possess.

I like it.

 

[Grizz1963]

What color will you do for a center cap?
Will it be only a center cap or cover the lug nuts?
I like the exposed lugs and thinking the pinkish color you used against the gold would tie it in but I do not have the vision you possess.

I like it.

That is all answered at Youtube account: Riangrizz

Go take a look.