Wanted... Car in Irvine area with oxidized single stage paint

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Mike_Phillips

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Hi all,



I'm looking for a dark colored car with neglected and oxidized single stage paint for a before & after demonstration for ColorX



Any takers?



Mike
 
Hmm, what do you mean by neglected and oxidized??



I have a red car (1975 Ferrari 308 GT4) that has oxidized paint with an orange-tint. I notice that when I polish the car, the paint darkens considerably, but over time, becomes more orange.



It is single stage paint (1975) with lots of swirls, scratches, etc, mostly because I don't have alot of time to baby it as much as I'd like. It should probably be repainted at some point.



I am in tustin, CA, right across the street from Irvine.



Send me a PM or e-mail if interested.



Dom
 

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I'd certainly be interested in the results. Single stage paint is not nearly as common now as when I first started detailing, but I got a doozy on Monday. 1989 Ford Taurus that was chalk white. Ugh. Took about 3.5 hours to bring the paint back. (I should have pics up in a few days). Anything that can help make removing serious oxidation always gets my attention!
 
Here is another photo of the car that better emphasizes the oxidized finish.
 

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Dom said:
Hmm, what do you mean by neglected and oxidized??



I have a red car (1975 Ferrari 308 GT4) that has oxidized paint with an orange-tint. I notice that when I polish the car, the paint darkens considerably, but over time, becomes more orange.



It is single stage paint (1975) with lots of swirls, scratches, etc, mostly because I don't have alot of time to baby it as much as I'd like. It should probably be repainted at some point.



I am in tustin, CA, right across the street from Irvine.



Send me a PM or e-mail if interested.



Dom
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Was this photo taken at Crystal Cove?



Looks familiar.



Mike
 
Dom said:
Here is another photo of the car that better emphasizes the oxidized finish.
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Hi Dom,



What I'm acutally looking for is something like Scottwax described, extremely oxidized and flat looking.



I do love a challenge however, maybe I could take a stab at your car's finish anyhow?



Mike
 
Mike Phillips said:
Was this photo taken at Crystal Cove?



Looks familiar.



Mike
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Yep, I've been at crystal cove alot these past few months. I have a son that was born at the end of august, and he still wakes up pretty early in the morning. So, since I'm up early on Sat, might as well take the trip to crystal cove...



Anytime you want to try your magic on my cars finish, you are welcome to. Send me a PM or an e-mail for my contact info.



Dom
 
Hi Dom,



Looking forward to seeing you this Saturday at the event!



If you don't remember, Norm and I followed along the Ferrari drive last year through Mulholland with our MB's. We will both be at the event this Saturday, great to hear you'll be joining us. Maybe you and Norm can set something up for the F-Chat gals/guys, I'm sure there would be a few interested people.:)
 
Mike,



I got to work on a car that you described. Short story, I had about 20 minutes to work on a flat red car. I was granted permission to just work on the hood. The car was not even clean but I was not going to pass up this opportunity to test.



This was not an ideal test. I had to remove some bird dropping (used 1Z product), after I wiped I notice my terry cloth towel was red. I have never worked on a single stage car before, so that was kind of weird.



I "cleaned" (hum, hum) the hood with my shampoo/water mixture that I use for claying, wiped it down.



Applied ColorX twice with a terry cloth pad and buffed off with a MF, and the paint color came back. I followed with NXT with a terry cloth pad and buffed off with a MF and the hood was bright red once more. This combo works great!



The application pads were red so were the MFs. There is a lot of red on my pads and towels. Does this red color come out in the wash?
 
Malachi said:
Does this red color come out in the wash?
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Hopefully! :D :D



Seriously though, probably not completely. After wet-sanding and cutting and buffing my red 1973 Blazer, all of my buffing pads, towels and microfibers had a lot of red paint in/on them.



After a few washings, most of the red came out, but there was a definite pink tinge to both the towels and the microfibers.



Note: My white Nike tennis shoes were also red, which I did not like. I washed them in the washing machine with hot water and Tide and bleach and everything came out white except the nylon mesh tongues. I sprayed on some Heavy Duty Carpet & Interior Cleaner, worked it in and then blotted with a terry cloth towel and all the pink was gone.



Pretty amazing considering Tide and Bleach didn't remove the red/pink staining.



Mike
 
Mike,



If you work on a car like this, I'd love the opportunity to come a observe (I promise, no questions this time). :) It would be great to see the results first hand. Thanks!!!



Scott
 
zzyyzx said:
Mike,



If you work on a car like this, I'd love the opportunity to come a observe (I promise, no questions this time). :) It would be great to see the results first hand. Thanks!!!



Scott
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Sure thing Scott.



I always have something coming up, heck the Batmobile may be single stage, I won't find out until I check it first hand.



I have a 1989 Lotus and a 1999 Calloway Corvette coming up, I don't think they're single stage finishes, but the condition of the paint is about as bad as it can get. They will make great before and after cars.



Tomorrow I'm heading down to Escondido to buff out this truck,



http://www.customclassictrucks.com/featuredvehicles/5386/



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More information and pictures,



http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/gorin.html



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I'll be posting pictures to www.ShowCarGarage.com



Also, if your interested, Meguiar’s is holding a 1-day seminar on wet-sanding, cutting and buffing on June 26th. This is an all day event that will cost $495.00 but includes $495.00 in products including a rotary buffer.



I’ll be posting more information real soon, if anyone is interested, please e-mail me at



mphillips@meguiars.com



Mike
 
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