Restoring the shine to my Desoto

[Black Bart]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Two years ago I did a old Explorer with single stage paint that was oxidized.
I used #80 by hand it was a lot of work and I went through a bunch of towels but the end result was that it looked like new.

[G Force]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

That's awesome, Desoto. I'm definitely following this thread. Keep us updated when you have time and take pictures along the way. Thanks in advance.

Colin

[Ryan L.]

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I'm up for it...I'll probably have to tag along with somebody, but I'd be willing to do it.

[Mike Phillips]

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Hmmmm.....either that beautiful DeSoto needs to make a road trip to Irvine or "the usual suspects" at Meguiar's Open Garage sessions need to load up a large van (or small bus) and head up to Sebastopol for a really fun project!!

I'm in.

Mapquest shows Sebastopol, California to be just under 500 miles from Irvine, so whose care are we going to take?

Mine holds 4 people with room for all our stuff. 4 of us with the help of the owner and we can knock it out in a day easily, (inside and out)

[cnfowler]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

That's awesome, Desoto. I'm definitely following this thread. Keep us updated when you have time and take pictures along the way. Thanks in advance.

Colin

[Desoto60]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Thanks for all the advice and help. As soon as it starts to dry up I'm going to get started on this. If the car turns out as well as your pictures, it's going to be awsume looking!

A little background to the car:
It is the original paint. When my Grandfather died about 15 years ago, my grandmother sent the car to storage. It was a Car storage wharehouse with other really amazing rare cars in the building, so it was taken care of.
When my Grandmother died, my father told me this car, (which I thought had been sold or junked years ago) was in storage and he was going to sell it.
I stoped that immediatly and told him I would take it.
I had two friends, who are mechanics ,go up to Oregon with me to get it.
The storage guy and my father thought we wer crazy to think we were going to get it running and drive it back to Northern Ca. It hadn't been driven in at least 10 years.
We put about three hours work into to it, bleeding the breaks, new oil, new battery, flushing the radiator, etc. Everyone stood back and the car started on the second try. It purred like a big cat.
We drove it back to California with the only problem being two flat tires.
I have since had alot of mechanical work done, but now I'm ready to tackle the exterior.
I have the original bill of sale from when my Grandfather purchased the car new off the dealers lot in 1960.
He paid $4,700.00 for it!

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Hmmmm.....either that beautiful DeSoto needs to make a road trip to Irvine or "the usual suspects" at Meguiar's Open Garage sessions need to load up a large van (or small bus) and head up to Sebastopol for a really fun project!!

[Ryan L.]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

I'm in Sebastopol California. Near Santa Rosa.

That's where he lives, Mike...

Ryan

[Mike Phillips]

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Wow, that's what I want. I'd like to try the M80 and the buffer. Can I purchase from you directly or do I have to find a retailer nearby?

You can purchase from www.meguiars.com, you can call Customer Care at 1-800-347-5700 and there are some good online vendors that also carry everything you need.

You have to be careful when machine cleaning old paint as you can rub through the high points, that's why if you look at the pictures we posted on page one you'll see a few guys rubbing the paint around body lines and edges by hand. After they do these delicate areas by hand they then tackle the larger section by machine.

When you rub old paint out around the edges of body lines or high points we call this edging.

Where do you live?

[Desoto60]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Wow, that's what I want. I'd like to try the M80 and the buffer. Can I purchase from you directly or do I have to find a retailer nearby?

[Mike Phillips]

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Should I use the dual action polisher with the M80 Speed Glaze? Or should the M80 be hand applied?

Either way. A machine is always faster than your hand and does a better job but if all you have is your hands then that's what you use.

First you need to find a PBE store.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Here's a picture of our new one,




Here's one in use...





Before
These guys are rubbing the paint out by hand using M80 Speed Glaze and little pieces of terry cloth





After

[Desoto60]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

Should I use the dual action polisher with the M80 Speed Glaze? Or should the M80 be hand applied?

[Desoto60]

Re: Restoring the shine to my Desoto

I'm in Sebastopol California. Near Santa Rosa.

[Mike Phillips]

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Thanks for the advice, but I don't know what a "PC" or a "G110" is. Is this a machine polisher of some kind?

Yes, these are small but powerful dual action polishers that will do the work better and faster. Our brand new one runs about $150.00 but if you can't afford that right now you can rub the entire car out by hand using a piece of terry cloth toweling and a lot of elbow grease.