Old Dog

[Superior Shine]

We had to go over each area two and three times at least. Our wool pads loaded up quickly with dead paint.



Once I was down to the "good" paint I polished it with #85 using a #7006 foam pad.

And here is the result --

[Superior Shine]

We had to take it inch by inch. If I skipped a spot it would stick out like a sore thumb.

Here you can see the difference between the rear fender that is already rubbed out with #49 and the adjacent panel .



Here is a side by side rub out of the hood --

[Superior Shine]

After I "bonded" with the car a bit I decided this was going to be an old school rub-out. The paint wasn't original. I guess it was repainted in the 60s.

My collection of "clear coat safe" 80-series Meguiars products probably wasn't going to cut it with this vehicle. I would need to get very aggressive to remove the thick coat of dead paint from the surface and hopefully I would find paint underneath that I could pamper and persuade to give me a brilliant shine.

Again my working conditions were less than ideal.



I decided that I needed to go at this like they used to back in the day when Meguiars put out their #1 and #4 paint cleaners.

I have a product in my arsenal that reminds me of old #4 and I used it on this old 41, Meguiars marine line #49 Heavy Duty Oxidation Remover.

[Superior Shine]

Pretty neat old car. Check out these stickers I found on it. ------



And this one is a WW2 ration sticker------



The owner wanted to know if his car could be buffed out. When I first saw this car I didn't believe I could help it. The oxidation was super thick. There wasn't any shine at all.

[Murr1525]

Hard to tell which color is the paint color.. But I hope it works out good.

[VanityDetailing]

If not, you should just give me that car.

[Mike Phillips]

Here's what I think Joe...

If anyone can save it, you would be that person. Be careful around high points and edges with whatever approach you take and best of luck to you.

[Superior Shine]

I was emailed recently about polishing out this 1941 Plymouth.
Maybe too far gone. What do you think?