Trim Ring Restoration Guy!!! Brian Kapral

Bought a set, well actually 2 sets of 15x7 Brushed rings and although most were OK I wanted better.

Brian Kapral Moparts member RESQ302 came to the rescue. He was able to get the little dings out of them and sharpen up the brushed area that now they look near perfect!!!!!!
I've seen the type of work Brian did on his Dad's GTX and was super impressed. I asked him who did the trim rings over and he showed me his handy work.

He is a true Craftsman and a pleasure to work with. There are some aspects of the restoration that isn't possible to do but if you need this type of work contact him and he'll explain exactly what can and can't be done.
Thanks again Brian your the Best!!!!

Ron Sannino

have any close up pics of the trim ring?

that is good to know for future referance..
thanks for the info.

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the praise. I'm very happy to hear that you like them. They will certainly compliment the other fine details of your car. As we had talked in person, there are some things I can repair and others, well, some are beyond help. As you saw, I restore more than just trim rings. I treat everything like it is going on my car which is held up to a pretty high standard which you saw from the work I did on my Dad's 69 GTX convertible.

Thanks again and hope to see you at some upcoming shows.

Brian

Yep just went down to the garage and took these. The more I look at them the more they make me smile!!!
Ron

No need to thank me I just wanted you to know your work was appreciated. And yes Brian does more than just trim ring resto work.
Ron

I gotta say, the rim, tire, and center cap make the whole thing look amazing ! Don't get me wrong, the trim rings looked nice once they were restored, but it was only one small piece of the puzzle. The entire car is going to look awesome. Shoot, it looks awesome now. I can't wait to see it completed.

nice, very nice

Awesome work, Brian!

You might want to think about showcasing some of the services you offer here on Moparts.

Jim

Why would he do that Jim? He would get as busy as you are.

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the compliment ! I'm not really one to gloat about my work. Sometimes I post projects and such that I am doing on Facebook but aside from that, the only thing I ever really promoted was the resto of my Dad's 69 GTX convertible over on another forum. Being that his car was pretty much unmolested and untouched, I wanted to document everything and get it back to as "nice" as new condition for him with preserving as much of the factory features as possible. I pretty much took the Dave Walden approach and took about 2000 pictures as proof of the before and after.

With all the attention this seems to be getting, I just want to let it be known that this is a side job for me and not my primary job. Ron was very nice to let me have the trim rings for as long as I needed although, I don't think the time frame was that bad. What would you say, Ron?

Brian the time you took was very reasonable for a guy doing this on the side. Heck I bet you were faster than a guy doing it for a living!!
Ron

Thank you again for the compliments, Ron. One thing to remember too, Ron, is that your trim rings were in pretty nice shape before hand too. So that saved a lot of time for me. The trim rings on my 69 Charger took me 40-60 hrs for EACH of those trim rings! You can only imagine what they must have looked like before.

Now I have a question.Can you take four of these O.E.M.polished rings in perfect condition (no scratches,dents ever) and replicate the original brushed finish ?

Absolutely!

It appears Resq302 is no longer active on the member search list.

Click on his name above and look at his profile?????

He is still alive and kicking. He has some of my trim rings in the queue to restore. Last I talked to him, he had 4 sets before mine that were in line. He also said he had some issues receiving PM's on here and I had to reach him via email.

I learned Resq302 has a ban but he can be contacted through email.

Would someone send me his e-mail address? Thanks.

Banned , I can't imagine anything he did to get banned , there were never any issues with him in the past ?

John there really isn't any reason for a BAN on Brian except he defended ECS one too many times so he got the boot.
Brian is a hardworking good guy, his views and the board's clashed.
Ron

As I stated before, it's right in his profile.....

Resq302@aol.com

It's listed in his profile

PM sent

Thanks for sending his e-mail, everyone.

JohnRR, there was at least one troublesome thread by resq302 involving member Transamcuda. He changed his name to Benito and was banned again. I don't know his current name, or status as a member. As others have said emailing is the best shot.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbt...tml#Post1924745

Interesting read. I never knew there were more than one version of that decal.

Looks like whoever that TheSameGuy is or was since he is no longer registered had views like Resq302 did. Be it what it may, I kind of get where he was coming from as I'm sure that decal would have applied to all e body cars and not just one specific model. Oh well, kind of a off topic point bringing it up on here since this topic is about trim ring restoration.

Either way, I'm looking forward to getting my trim rings back from Brian and having them look a lot nicer than before!

Does anyone have Brian's contact info please? I am in need of getting a set of trim rings restored, and like to see if he's available to do this for me.
Thanks in advance!

This is good to know. I should contact him about a part I'd like to get done.

Wow, that old post looks like something you'd find on a Corvette forum. I stumbled on one once where two guys were going at each other arguing about what the paint runs on a restored frame should look like.

Forget it!! He had mine for 3 years and could never find the time to do them. I believe he is not doing them anymore. His life is very busy is what he told me.