A Beautiful After

[Brenton]

So this is a 1977 Triumph Spitfire 1500, all original paint. Totally oxidized rust coloured paint, worst I've seen outside of red. The pearl white hard top wasn't too bad, just dirty and stained, and came out fantastic. The chrome is awful, and I'm still looking for a way to fix it. Crappy camera work, and the before shots didn't turn out, the afters are just fair.
Pretty bad damage on the front end, and he might repaint anyway.

Rust Paint Treatment:
Wash with Meguiar's Deep Crystal
Ducan Clay with Ducan Re-flect Spray & Wash
Taped off trim, etc.
Farecla G6 with Wool Pad, several passes at 1000-1400-1800 rpm on rotary (only 1000rpm on crevices, and there were a lot of them, lots of hand compounding too)
Farecla G6 with Black Heavy Cutting Edge Pad, same routine
Farecla G10 with Blue Polishing Edge Pad, two passes 1000-1800 rpm
Washed & Dried
Cleaned with Duca-Solv paint cleaner
Meguiar's NXT Paste
The Treatment Carnauba Wax (next day)

On the hard top:
Farecla G6 by hand in tight areas and stains
Farecla G10 with Yellow Medium Cutting Edge Pad, 1000-1800 rpm, 4 passes
Farecla G10 with soft Farecla finishing pad, 1000-1800 rpm, 2 passes
Washed & Dried
Cleaned with Duca-Solv paint cleaner
Meguiar's NXT Paste
The Treatment Carnauba Wax (next day)

Trunk before with right side gone over once:

Driver door before:

A close-up of the oxidization:


After:

 

[Beemerboy]

Nice work single stage paints are one of mt favs to work on

 

[Brenton]

Nice work single stage paints are one of mt favs to work on

Really thin paint, though.
It looks like someone detailed about a decade ago. They burned through in 3 or 4 areas, and -- ughh -- they burned the polish pad into 3 of the 4 black bumpers that augment the chrome. Awful work.

 

[ShineProDetails]

SS fun. Looks alot better.