Anyone Like The BEETLES

[SHYNEMAN123]

1963 VW Beetle with only 3 mill total = 1 mill to work with,the oxidized paint sucked in everything I threw at it but found a winning combo.







and the after

[Fischer]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

Woah! Vanilla to white!
Turned out GREAT. Great job. So what was the winning combination?

[SHYNEMAN123]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

Woah! Vanilla to white!
Turned out GREAT. Great job. So what was the winning combination?

Due to the very thin color coat

1. D/A and # 3 Machine glaze several passes not much improvement
2. D/A #80 Speed glaze .................... hard to remove sucked in.
3. D/A # 83 cleaner polish ................. very hard to remove used LT
4. D/A # D151 The paint laughed at it.
Now I was getting peed off, could not over come the paint sucking everything in that bad.
5. No Ba_ _s no blue chips D/A # 105 same sucking in issue
6. Used a Life line and called Rod Kraft ( one of the most knowledgeable I have ever met)
7.# 80 has always worked for me on all the old stuff In the past,Rod suggested going to the Rotary & 2.0 yellow and now you know the rest of the story.
What was missing was the added friction to over come the oxidation and get to the color.

BIG THANKS ROD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really thought this was going to be the first in my 30 yrs that went out the door with me shaking my head.

[KC's]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

fabulously yours
I like Beetle...the most reliable car built during it era, acthung

keep it up frank

Master at work again

[SHYNEMAN123]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

fabulously yours
I like Beetle...the most reliable car built during it era, acthung

keep it up frank

Master at work again

Thank you very much, your too kind.

[Eddie6th]

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und das ist gut, ja.....


They're becoming a bit of a rarity here these days.


Frank,is there nothing can be done in these cases to cease the 'drinking'. Something that could be applied over a couple of days first,or longer even,that would do all the absorbing before starting?

[SHYNEMAN123]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

und das ist gut, ja.....


They're becoming a bit of a rarity here these days.


Frank,is there nothing can be done in these cases to cease the 'drinking'. Something that could be applied over a couple of days first,or longer even,that would do all the absorbing before starting?

Not that I have ever come across the only thing that works is to cut the oxidation and stop at polish, NO WAX or you will be doing it again to remove the wax.

Your just buying time.

[Hemin8r]

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You definitely brought the shine back. Nice job.

[InfiniteDetail]

Re: Anyone Like The BEETLES

Great restoration! I ran into similar situation on an '86 Mustang...the usual suspects just didn't work. Way to see it through to the winning combo