well. yesterday me and Nick started on this jaguar, to our disappointment we not gona be able to bring back to condition we want it to be in because paint thickness that already shows sings of its age. in some spots its so thin that it shows discoloration. its original paint. i went over with HL II and in those spots its about 65-69microns. rest of the car was from 89-115 (1900 in some spots in back that i guess been filled). car shows effects of acid rain(dimples in paint) and a lot of scratches. had a lot of oxidation. owner just wants it so he can see his reflection in it and we were able to get that but again its not were we want it but nothing we can do with paint that thin here is before and after pics car was easy to work on and we were able to do 2-3 stage polish on most of it yesterday products used (not all listed stuff were used on all panels, each part of the car had its own combination) wool pad and powergloss yellow pad and powergloss orange and 203 white and 106 black and menz 115 blue and blackfire selant on hood where paint was thinest we only did 203 and orange, on center hood where paint was from 100-115 we did 3 stage polish. difference is night and day even with all scraches that still there but without wetsanding its not gona be perfect here are some pics, some 50/50 shots which were hard to do. on trunk you can see how bad it was and what it is now. you can actualy see reflection now, thats what customer wants, its not gona be show car, just for him to enjoy it, its in middle of restore still, not sure why he doesnt want to repaint it at this point uploading pics 1962 jaguar pictures by sy272004 - Photobucket before kinda can see 50/50 on hood 50/50 side before trunk, cant see my reflection (50/50 shot) after, now you can see me whole trunk done Nick working on his side of the car, i already did 3 stage on trunk here is when car was done this is my fav pic (before selant was applied) selant applied but not removed
Welcome to the wonderful world of classics. All owners will always try to say the car is original if they can. I would not be surprised if it was painted in the 70's or 80s. Either way nice save, Its a very valuable car, more importantly they are a blast to drive. Even if you can not make it perfect, at least it will still look great while moving. One thing that jumped out on me is the incorrect badge on the rear. They all say Jaguar, but they always have either E-Type, or V12 badges under that. Not like it fell off, the discoloration is not there like it is around the Jaguar badge.
well some parts probably were retouched couse some paint readings were into 1600-1900 so it was filled and painted. but with hood paint very thin i think it would be original at least there badge like this
If it was resprayed a long time ago, it could have had panels replaced in a light restoration, or accident or so on.
Misha..given what you and Nick had to work with, you guys did a bang-up job! Old cars are a whole different kettle of fish...can you imagine what would have happened if you did NOT have your paint thickness gauge? It's a damned good thing you guys were informed about what you were working with.
see those white spots on hood? they read about 65 and there are some spots on some parts on car like that so it was safe to assume that those spots are around 60 but PTG did help to see where paint was getting very close to that reading to be extra carefull in those spots
at beggining i didnt want to do it almost couse i knew i cant bring it to level i want to but after doing it and seeing how difference we made between what it was and what is now, i think owner will be happy, now we have to do his Ferrari and land rover
