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Originally Posted by firstgenaddict

The problem with most restorations is that everything is VERY deliberate and appears as such... the chalk marks the grease pencil marks the over spray etc. It takes a HELL of a lot of work to ACCURATELY replicate the marks created under the pressures of an assembly line environment...

Consider the amount of time that the person had to make the marks, they did not take 5 minutes or even 2 minutes to make them. They were scrawled across the firewall quickly, study the stroke marks and practice so that yours are quick and show the strokes, even if they are light or a little larger or a little smaller they are better than the choppy crusty DELIBERATE marks seen on most restorations.

Oh yeah - my biggest pet peeve is how people spend hours trying to duplicate (with shaky hands) the marks that an assembly line person took half a second to originally produce.

This was my solution. I hired my 9 and 4 year-olds to duplicate the marks on the suspension pieces on my '72 Trans Am restoration over a decade ago. I told them as soon as they were done we could go get ice cream. Took them all of 30 seconds! They did a magnificent job! Man how time flies. She just graduated college and he is a junior in high school now.