Old Honda in Blue

The ol' Yeller Honda 1974 750 Four was painted with House of Colors "True Blue". Now Bryans ride, he can be stylin with some of his handy work. Although the bags kind of take away from it a bit, the blue is amazingly bright. Bryan laid down a very heavy pearlized House Of Color favorite. Bikes are fun to paint simply because they're so much smaller than many of the 4x4 trucks we've painted and or even the cars. Not to mention the creative aspects available for bikes. Even though this is an old bike we wanted to keep the retro look with some modern paint appeal. I painted the Candy Tangerine stripe over Smooth Silver metallic and laid it on. I air brushed the top part with black to shade and painted in a solid black line underneath to give it more body.
Keeping the original badges helped to keep the retro look. We contemplated and still may add the Tangerine to the front and rear fenders. But for now we're happy having the new color and the feel it gives the bike. There still is some work to do like the head light cover and a little more wet sanding to knock out a little of the orange peel.

67 Stang...homeward bound

This was ultimately a fun project. There were lots of things we had to do for this car. The list following is not in any particular order, just as I remember some of the things we worked on with this car. Installed windshield, replaced batter box and shelf, repair rust with new metal in fender wells, fixed broken welds, painted engine bay, Fixing rusted rear fenders, replacing frnt lft fender. Zolitone for the trunk, installed new dash and instrument clusters and trim. The seats were reupholstered from Gotcha Covered in Albuquerque. We installed carpet, repainted inside doors, installed new weather stripping all around and for glass and windows, installed panels, repainted rear speaker shelf, installed new stereo and fixed some rust areas in floor pans. Most parts ordered from Dallas Mustangs and Route 66 Mustang in Albuquerque. We repainted and repaired the front grill, there were some slight mechanical issues with a leaky thermostat housing and having to install new rollers for the driver window and rear windows and made sure they all worked. All paint was Dupont BCC, wet sanded and buffed. Saddle brown for the painted stripes. We hope to see this little classic 67 at some of the summer car shows this year. A LOT of time was put into this car not to mention new parts. The owner was off to put new tires and drive it around awhile. Click on pictures for larger images.

The Boss left...

With an awesome day of warm weather we hadn't had in quite awhile, made for a great day to send home the Boss. Pablo, as I call him, now gets the pleasure of getting to install all the components in order to get it on the race track by June or July. All his parts and ducks are in order for complete assembly. Moving the beast on casters was a b*$%h. Hence it took five of us to get it to roll correctly on to the trailer. One thing for sure is the color really pops in the sunlight. When I first bought the paint and looked in the can I didn't have much hope for "pretty" in its future but after looking at it on the car and a few times on my hands, hmm, I was quite impressed. As were the many who popped up the proverbial thumbs up while in transit to it's assembly destination. I miss those days driving my muscle cars and passing many a "thumbs up" along the way. Paul will sure to have his share of the vertical apposing digit passed his direction from the delight of passer bys. This car will be street driven as well as taken to the road course tracks within the neighboring states for sure. I look forward to seeing it with wheels on! Click on photos to enlarge!

70 Boss in Aqua

This is a bit of an update it being the new year and all. The 70 Boss is just about to go home to its owner. The color is way cooler than I thought it would be. In the sun it really pops nicely. To the left, Bryan helps puts a polish on it. Some final pix will be posted here before it leaves. Next you will see it with the decals and without the windows covered. Some photos of the 67 will be up before long. It to will be leaving soon as well. It's in the process of getting a new interior installed and is also getting the final buff. As everyone knows Black is a tough color, but looks cool when done!
We now have a 63 Porsche project. This poor little guy came in with a bit of rust that we had to cut out. It will be getting a lot of new metal before long. The owner plans on it being a keeper and will be using it as a daily driver. It may also be getting a sun roof and of course new paint. We look forward to bringing that one back up to running and looking good. Just a reminder you can click on the photo to get a larger image to get a better look. More pix to come of the 67 as well. If the sun will stay out long enough will get some more of the Boss posted as well.

Bringing this back up to speed!

This blog site was a quick place for those interested in the Kustom shop to view some prior work. So I'm basically keeping it that way.

Two projects for the Kustom shop are coming to a close. Kristinas 67 Mustang and Pauls 70 Boss race car replica. Note the very visible reflections on the black 67. Wet sand and buff is the only way to go. The car gets the lower rocker striping, and new springs to raise the back up a bit. We have some small details yet on the body with some more trim yet. The seats were done locally by Gotcha Covered. The carpet and new dash is from Dallas Mustangs. They were good about getting us new carpet when the first one didn't fit quite to our liking. A new steering wheel and internal trim peaces are on their way. We're hoping soon this little guy will be going home soon. With it's peppy 302 it's got the healthy V8 sound and reliable with that cubic inch displacement.

More pictures soon. Click on pictures for a larger image view.

Mustang Boss update

Work on Pauls 1970 Mustang Boss race car replica is finding the homestrech point. The photos show the Aqua color we really like. Lots of pearls in the color that make it pop quite nicely. The jams get painted soon and the doors are already painted on the inside. We'll hang the doors as soon as the jams are done. The hood and fenders are about ready for paint but we will paint the exterior car as a hole to keep color application consistant.

more stuff

The ol Pan Head was one that was fun to paint just cause it was old. The Red pearl on the BMW was one of most difficult to ballance and not spot, after a few test panels and changed my technique to make sure it came out good.

This T-Bucket we painted frame blk and body red from funky green. It was cool looking but kinda scary to drive as the short stiff wheel base bounces you all over the road. The yellow flames on the rat rod are yellow over flat black.

A few more to look at

This site with new posting will normally have my latest updates on the projects I have going on now. Currantly a 1970 Mustang I go into detail below. But I listed a few past projects to have those interested to see some of the work done. I got fancy and up with a air brush for a while. I explane where I'm at with this kind of work when you scroll down.



The above left is me with my 72 Plymouth (not a Dodge as Al always loveingly refered to on "married with childred"). The 3d flames was just for effect but look better on cars if done right.
This Road King Harley was one of my first. This was a HOK paints, red fade to black. Simple but effective keeping factory stripes with clear over all.

This was me a couple years ago with the 72 Duster thats become our test vehicle. The car was hit badly a few months after this and has been fixed but not repainted. Being a test vehicle it wont see new paint for awhile.

This was the before in Pauls engine bay. The above photo is before paint.







The above pictures are me with what now has become our test vehicle for our prototype fuel management systems.
We have a web site that will be up sometime the week of the 24th that goes into much detail in the work we have done and testing regarding our "chemical extraction methods" for better fuel management and efficiency with todays fuels. That web site is www.corberg.com
So this blog site is more for the restoration work I do and pretty much plan to do for as long as I am able in life. Having now been doing this for over 10 years, I've learned much and have grown to appreciate some of our early time iron.
The following are just some of the few vehicles I've painted, done body work and done some fabrication on. I was doing more "flame" work a couple years ago, and found that restoration was even more fun. There something about bringing back or even modifying those jewls from our yester-years.
The currant project is Paul McLaughlins 1970 reproduction Boss 302 Trans Am Mustang race car replica. Paul is into road racing. As you see it, Butch over at Coaches Chassis in Albuquerque fabricated his roll cage, and Paul has inlisted the help of his friend Vic Yarberry who's also a race car nut, to help in some of the plans to include some of the important modifications we have to accomplish to make it an exact replica.
We'll place the latest improvements on the car and sometimes, if I'm in the mood, to talk a little about how I go about stuff.

Some creations to look at

The Blue flamed Ford is HOKolors Bluberry Pearl over HOK Pearl White. Looks great in the sun. The Pro street Swinger is the creation of Mike (can't think of last name of yet) who dropped a 600hp 440. Yes it was a tight sqiz. Fred from the Car Guys fabricated roll bar, shaved handles, added four link and many other upgrades. Mikes brother have a custom dash company. I'll have web site posted when I find it.





The 65 Mustang was fun but gave the owner mechanical problems on a cross country trip back to Alabama. On the Dodge Ram, we added on more set of flames lower on the door after checking our handy work we felt that would give more ballance, just don't have a pic of the final. The Fairlane has a new 390 motor rebuilt from Automotive Machine Services with the help of owner Doug Anderson. The Chevy Stepside of Pat Perea was somewhat of a nightmare do to some previouse bad chemestry. New Oak Bed and solid black all around. We air brushed Chevrolet on the tailgate.