1962 Triumph TR-3A Detail

[the0ne]

This is my dads car, I learned how to drive a stick shift on this car many years ago, I finally had time to clean her up



The paint on this made me MAD, its 20 years old and never ever has been cleaned properly. I tired many different combinations of pads/compounds to try to buff out the swirls/imperfections but nothing really worked the way I wanted to.



I tried:



Orange Propel; OHC - nothing

Orange Propel; SSR.2.5 - little different

Green Propel; SSR.2.5 - better





Ended up using Green Propel with 3M Compound, Followed by Blue Propel with OPT polish and AIO on a Blue Propel. Also there were deep blackish waterspots on the car, I couldnt get rid of, any ideas?



Before:









Afters

 

[Scottwax]

Awesome car!



Interesting you had to go down in pad aggressiveness to get better results-were you having any hazing issues with the more aggressive pads?

 

[the0ne]

Awesome car!



Interesting you had to go down in pad aggressiveness to get better results-were you having any hazing issues with the more aggressive pads?

Yea, alot more hazing, and the aggressive pads were cutting in the paint, the paints were ALL red.

 

[94BlkStang]

That is one nice TR3. My dad had a few of those back in the late 60's and early 70's. Unfortunately I wasn't old enough to drive then.

 

[euro]

the frontal shot looks...oh, so nice.

 

[TriumphGT6]

Beautiful Work. The car is in excellent shape too.



Now come do mine (or buy it, $4k):

GT6