'60 Impala, Full Wet Sand and Buff: Rasky's Auto Detailing

[dixie_boysles]

Re: '60 Imala, Full Wet Sand and Buff: Rasky's Auto Detailing

wish the red on my truck POPPED like that. you would run and hide at the swirls and atuff on my truck (i work at a granite quarry, so dust settles on it all day). When its clean, it looks good until the sun hits it and you see all the swirls

[greg0303]

Re: '60 Imala, Full Wet Sand and Buff: Rasky's Auto Detailing

Beautiful work on this 1960 Beauty, Chad.

You made it look stunning.

M105/ M105/ M205/ PO85RD/ LSP = amazing transformation. Good call on not going crazy with orange peel on thin and hard paint.

[blue-sun]

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Amazing job! The M105 on the chrome, did you do that by hand or with a machine?

[Mark58]

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As always, great write up nice pics, and GREAT Job.

[Brook]

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Just incredible, truly a work of art.

Amen, brother. Absolutely stunning!

[Marc08EX]

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AMAZING WORK Chad!!!!! The paint just looks perfect!!! It's such a dramatic improvement compared to its original condition even if you said you didn't sand it as much as you wanted to. What was the reaction of the owner? I'm sure he was ecstatic!

[gto_don]

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OMG OMG OMG ! ! ! etc etc etc!

[G_S_DB]

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Just incredible, truly a work of art. How long did the whole process take?

[RaskyR1]

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This was as I finally finished at 1:00a.m. during a week night. I normally don't take cars on during the week as I have a full time job, but the car had to get done as it was going to the auction the next day.
















Next day when the owner picked it up.....yea sun!
















I didn't do anything with the motor or trunk but thought I add pics of them as well







As always, thank you for taking the time to view my work!

Rasky

[RaskyR1]

Re: '60 Imala, Full Wet Sand and Buff: Rasky's Auto Detailing

This was on one of the late week nights, frustrated by how hard the paint was....Kevin asked how it was going so I thought I'd send him a pic showing how it was "really" going.



The actual sanding scratch removal was done with the below process:
-M105 on the rotary with various wool pads (KB's method)
-M105 on the rotary with cyan LC foam pads
-M205 on the rotary with tangerine LC foam pads
-PO85RD on the rotary with black LC foam pads

LSP was Blackfire Wet-Diamond


The next day I decided to take a break from the paint and focus on the stainless trim and a few other items, which M105 actually polished up very nicely.

Before


After


Before


After


Change can be seen better in these ones

Before


After


While polishing the rear trim piece I also took off the tail light covers to better polish them. Plus they were a little dirty inside so I gave them a quick cleaning. This was actually a 50/50 shot of the rear trim and taillights...hard to see difference in the pic


Dirty housing


Quick cleaning


Tail lights






Both sides done


Another 50/50 shot

[RaskyR1]

1960 Impala, Full Wet Sand and Buff.

So this is another car that my mentor recently picked up for resale at a local auction (yes it sold). The car appeared to have been repainted several years ago, but it was never actually wet sanded and buffed after the repaint. Overall the car was in very good shape, but the paint really needed to be leveled off to show it's true potential. While I really wanted to level the paint as smooth as glass, the initial paint readings told me there was not a lot of paint of the car and the owner and I agreed not to go too crazy with the sanding, but it was still a huge improvement!


So lets take a look at how the car came in...

Here it is at the owners facility, where I did my initial inspection and test sanding/buffing.




Deck lid


Zoomed in


Top of the passenger door


Side of passengers door


Passenger fender


Dust nibs still in the paint




Drivers side fender




Looking down the side....those fins made for some challenging sanding and buffing.




This one shows some swirls, RIDS, and nasty orange peel.




The Sanding process was done by both hand and DA. Areas that were highly curved needed to be done by hand using Meguiars (Nikken) 1500/3000 grit sheets and a makeshift sanding block/pad. The flat panels were done using a combination on Mirka Soft 1000/2500 grit disks in both 3" and 6", followed by some Meguiar's 3000 grit disks.

I must also give Kevin over at BuffyDaddy a huge thumbs up for helping me find the right sanding media for this rock solid paint and for getting them out to me in such a timely matter! This was by far the hardest paint I've ever laid a buffer too. The Mirka Soft discs worked flawlessly and will be added to my wet sanding arsenal! Thanks again Kevin!!!

Pics of the sanding in process


Hand sanding curved areas




DA sanding


Car all sanded ready to be buffed...notice that the 3000 grit almost leaves the paint with a slight gloss.










Doing some more test spots trying to figure out best combo for scratch removal.


50/50 test spot