Another one of those "pinch me to make sure I'm awake" kind of jobs. You might have seen this car hiding under the cover when I did my 1933 Packard Detail a few weeks back. I'll apologize now for the low quality pics in some of these shots. The detail was done over a 2 day span (along with another car I'll be posting shortly) and on day 1 my DSLR was having some issues so I had to rely on my phone to document. A big thanks to my best friend Anthony for donating a weekend to assist. Couldn't have done both cars in 2 days without his help. SUMMARY: The car is a driver, which is very cool. The owner logs a fair amount of miles in it and wasn't expecting outright perfection, just an overall improvement. The front end may be getting reshot soon as there is a pretty good amount of chips and nicks on the nose. Single stage black paint, so I knew going in I'd be burning thru a lot of pads. The end result on this was pretty gratifying. PROCESS: Waterless Wash to remove dust Clayed using Claybar & DS Wiped again with WW and fresh WW towels Spot corrected w/ focus pads / drill on deeper defects 1-2 passes per panel of SHR / Orange Pad / Flex @ setting 5 1-2 passes per panel of FMP / White Pad / PC @ setting 5 4" pads were used on the PC to correct tight spots Paint/Glass treated with Brilliant Glaze 2 coats of Americana Paste Wax Interior vacuumed w/ Metro 500 Glass cleaned with Glass Cleaner and Glass Towel Wheels polished w/ Metal Polish #1 followed by Metal Polish #2 Wheels sealed w/ beta test Speed Sealant Tires & trim treated with SVRT Engine bay wiped down with Untility Towel & Waterless Wash Engine bay dressed with SVRT where needed Paint condition wasn't bad, but this car is a driver so it has a fair amount of swirls, scratches, and RIDS.
Amazing correction on a classic!! On a side note, those two fram filters made me cringe ... you might want to tell the owner that there are better oil filters in the market ... lmao.
great job as always Dylan...quick question though...in the picture of the wax curing (obviously americana) i thought that if you left it on for too long it would be hard to remove?...was this because it was cooler so you left it on longer? keep up the great work...I NEED NEW PRODUCTS!!! haha
Thanks for the compliments everyone. Its an honor to work on cars like this - I have another one on the books here soon that trumps even these and I'm REALLY excited about it. @Shad - Typically I'd do Americana 2-3 panels at a time max then remove b/c it does set up so hard, but that shot was taken on day 2 and where the customer lives (anaheim hills) gets hit with the marine layer early in the morning. It kind of hangs around in foothills where he lives with this damp heavy fog, so at 7am or so when we were applying the humidity is really high... your clothes feel damp just standing outside even though its cold. So the wax took much longer than usual to setup.
