CelicaLover
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This is a 63' Corvette that is owned by a local funeral home owner. The story of the car is a bit long but it had seen some abuse in it's life. The owner wasn't expecting perfection but we did the best we could. As a preface the clear on this car was extremely hard as
evidenced by the process. Sorry for my spelling folks doing this in a hurry.
Process:
Presoak w/gilmore and Gold Class followed by wash with Gold Class and a Walmart Euro Mitt.
Car was then dried with absorber and the engine tackled using tarminator and several scrub brushes and alot of muscle.
Car was then rolled into the garage and clayed
Rims: Tarminator then scrubbed using #1 steel wool and followed by megs metal polish. Spokes untouched due to owner possibly replacing them in the near future.
Tires Scrubbed with Westleys bleach white X3 and then coated in armor all tire foam. Excess dirt wiped off and then followed by a coat of no touch.
Paint Polishing: Started off with polishing pad and #80 on the PC. After finding that that did nothing jumped up to OC on a megs cutting pad. Still nothing. Then jumped up again to OHC on megs cutting pad. It was doing something but not what Dan and I wanted. So we bumped it up one final step to the most severe thing in our arsenal. A wool compounding pad and OHC which still wasn't taking out all the swirls. It was finishing down without micromarring which is evidence to the toughness of this classics repaint.
Final Process on the paint was OHC w/ wool compounding pad 1500 to 2100 rpms followed by Megs Cutting pad and OHC 1500 rmps. Then followed by Dan with the PC and a sonus SFX-1 pad with megs 83 on speed 6 to take out any holograms. The surface finished down micromarring free from this combination but some of the deeper swirls still remained.
Paint Protection: We decided to finish with a coat of max wax as the red was just begging for that carnuba warmth it offers.
And now onto the main event.....pictures!
Here she is upon her initial sudsing
Here is the motor...Sorry no afters
The wheel all sudsed up waiting for some love
Wheels still waiting for that love......
Post Wash with Dan working on the engine
Dan worked hard on the wheels can you tell which side he has done?
The tools of choice
The convertible top needed a major cleaning as you can see
Swirls and Haze in the finish before
Swirls and Haze diminished leaving a nice clean reflection
Top polished bottom untouched.
Afters:
Couldn't really do much for the interior it needs to be redone
Theres the love
evidenced by the process. Sorry for my spelling folks doing this in a hurry.
Process:
Presoak w/gilmore and Gold Class followed by wash with Gold Class and a Walmart Euro Mitt.
Car was then dried with absorber and the engine tackled using tarminator and several scrub brushes and alot of muscle.
Car was then rolled into the garage and clayed
Rims: Tarminator then scrubbed using #1 steel wool and followed by megs metal polish. Spokes untouched due to owner possibly replacing them in the near future.
Tires Scrubbed with Westleys bleach white X3 and then coated in armor all tire foam. Excess dirt wiped off and then followed by a coat of no touch.
Paint Polishing: Started off with polishing pad and #80 on the PC. After finding that that did nothing jumped up to OC on a megs cutting pad. Still nothing. Then jumped up again to OHC on megs cutting pad. It was doing something but not what Dan and I wanted. So we bumped it up one final step to the most severe thing in our arsenal. A wool compounding pad and OHC which still wasn't taking out all the swirls. It was finishing down without micromarring which is evidence to the toughness of this classics repaint.
Final Process on the paint was OHC w/ wool compounding pad 1500 to 2100 rpms followed by Megs Cutting pad and OHC 1500 rmps. Then followed by Dan with the PC and a sonus SFX-1 pad with megs 83 on speed 6 to take out any holograms. The surface finished down micromarring free from this combination but some of the deeper swirls still remained.
Paint Protection: We decided to finish with a coat of max wax as the red was just begging for that carnuba warmth it offers.
And now onto the main event.....pictures!
Here she is upon her initial sudsing
Here is the motor...Sorry no afters
The wheel all sudsed up waiting for some love
Wheels still waiting for that love......
Post Wash with Dan working on the engine
Dan worked hard on the wheels can you tell which side he has done?
The tools of choice
The convertible top needed a major cleaning as you can see
Swirls and Haze in the finish before
Swirls and Haze diminished leaving a nice clean reflection
Top polished bottom untouched.
Afters:
Couldn't really do much for the interior it needs to be redone
Theres the love
