Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - May 14th, 2009
Matt Davies from Meguiar's International was our special guest tonight and it was great having his assistance helping Aparna to restore the shine to her 1974 Austin Mini Truck.
Note Meguiar's doesn't recommend using our foam cutting pads on clear coat finishes, this rare truck was re-painted using single stage paint, not a basecoat/clear paint system. As a precaution we tested the W7207 with Ultimate Compound to a Test Spot on the hood and then inspected the results and found this combination of product on this specific single stage paint system worked extraordinarily well. So we continued the cleaning step using Ultimate Compound with our W7208 Foam Cutting pad, using a G110 Dual Action Polisher on the 5.0 Speed Setting.
If you look at the face of the foam pad Aparna is using you can see white paint accumulating on the surface as it's being abraded off the truck.
After the cleaning step with Ultimate Compound, the finish was so nice we went straight to wax and use NXT Tech Wax to maximize the gloss created by the Ultimate Compound.
For the roof, we hand cleaned and polished the paint using M80 Speed Glaze which really works great for restoring oxidized single stage paints by abrading the dead paint off gently, while all the while gorging the paint with a high concentration of polishing oils which acts to bring out the full richness of color. This was done using M80 Speed Glaze by hand followed by NXT Tech Wax.
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