Finished the 1989 red fade, upside down "L" - One Touch Plus

[AZ Monsoon]

Craigslist find. 1st day - "nice grill, pretty fade, but I don't need it." 2nd day -  "it's still there huh?" 3rd day "just go buy it already." The gentleman was in his 70's I would say and said he was selling it for his Dad. I don't think it was used much. It had the normal rusted triangle, weathered legs, wheels and handles, but I'm guessing it lived it's life under a covered patio. Porcelain has to be close to 98-99%

New ash pan. I'll only subject myself to the punishment of cleaning a twist pan.

If these are the original grates I can only imagine they cooked hot dogs or something on this 

1st time redoing the wheels with the plastic white walls on them. Built up the white walls with primer, then semi gloss white. Wheels got satin black. The white walls are so brittle, I thought they were just going to crumble at some point while taking them apart....

He threw in one o those old-school electric charcoal starters too. May have to give it a go for nostalgia purposes.










Upside down L

[tb80]

Wow. Beautiful grill. Great find.


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[MikeRocksTheRed]

HOLY SHIT....YOU HAVE GRASS IN YOUR BACKYARD!!!!!?   Hehe...Really nice grill.  The handles look great.  It looks like you gave them a light sanding then refinished them so that they still have a bit of a weathered look.  I need to have the AZ crew over to my place for a meetup/azmonsoon lid vent shining demonstration!

[brewtownbeatdown]

Boy, ain't she perrrrty!!!

[apt323]

Great cleanup! its a nice looking son of a gun!!!!

[jcnaz]

That looks awesome, Barry!
Does anyone know of any other upside down L examples?

[Jeff]

Nice work! Looks like new.  Not much fade on this grill.  I like it better like that anyways. 

[AZ Monsoon]

Thanks guys. Mike, I can teach you that vent shining in about 2 minutes.

[weldboy]

Looks fantastic, beautiful red sir


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[Darko]

That's a beautiful looking grill.

[Qreps]

Wow that's a beauty!. Congratulations .

[crowderjd]

Is that the original handle?  Overall it looks beautiful! 

[AZ Monsoon]

Is that the original handle?  Overall it looks beautiful!

Yeah man. I didn't plan on the handles looking distressed. They just ended up that way.  Just sanded with 250 grit, three or four coats of cherry stain, 3 coats of poly, a little rub down with #0000 steel wool and then Howard's wax n' feed over the top.

Howard's products are awesome by the way. I use them on 60's - 70's speaker cabinets fairly often. Available at Home Depot.

[einrej]

Looks Great

[SixZeroFour]

Somehow I missed this post for a whole week!?!?   Monsoon, The red looks incredible!!! Really great work on the cleanup