1960 Ford Ranchero - Extreme Makeover - M105/M205 Tag Team

[Mike Phillips]

1960 Ford Ranchero - Extreme Makeover - M105/M205 Tag Team

Originally Posted to MOL on May 4th, 2009, 07:41 PM

Reposted here to share the products and process I used for the restoration.

Met this gentleman at our local Autozone and mentioned to him that his car was a great candidate for an extreme makeover; explained the process and gave him my phone number, figured like most people he'll never call. A few months later this guy calls me and reminds me of the car and asks if I still want to use it for an extreme makeover? Let's me know he's going to take his Dad in it for a car cruise and car show this upcoming Saturday, so I said... garage door is already open...


He purchased this 1960 Ford Ranchero off eBay in running condition for $900.00 and has been tinkering on it in his spare time while using it as a daily driver back and forth to the cement plant where he works. So the paint sits out in the Mojave Desert sun and bakes with a coating of all kinds of dust from the cement plant landing on it.

We did a Test Spot on one section of the driver's hood and the results were so dramatic we decided to tape off half the hood and do a before and after, side-by-side demonstration. Anyway, the two of us did the job in 6 hours start to finish.

Normally we would reach for M80 Speed Glaze as it will usually do a good job of chewing off the dead, oxidized paint from a single stage finish when used with a wool pad and a rotary buffer while gorging the paint with same type of polishing oils found in M07 but instead we decided to use SMAT products for the cutting and polishing. We used M105 with a rotary buffer and a wool cutting pad followed by M205 using a W-8000 foam polishing pad on a rotary buffer and it worked like a charm.

We did the optional step of re-polishing the single stage paint using M07 Show Car Glaze to really gorge the paint with the high concentration of polishing oils found in M07 and then sealer the paint using NXT Tech Wax Paste version 1.0 (That's what I had in the garage).

After we got into it the owner commented how he wasn't aware how involved we were going to get as he thought we were just going to wax it.

Products Used
M105/W5500/Rotary Buffer - 1500 RPM
M205/W-8000/Rotary Buffer - 1500 RPM
M07 Show Car Glaze/W-8006/Dual Action Polisher - 5.0 Speed Setting
NXT Tech Wax/W9207/Dual Action Polisher - 4.0 Speed Setting







After

[Perfections]

Nice turnaround, wish we could do that with all modern clear coat

[Mike Phillips]

Nice turnaround, wish we could do that with all modern clear coat

Anytime I see someone do an extreme makeover on a car with single stage paint you'll notice I ask them,

After working on both clear coats and single stage paints, which type do you like best?
(Or worded something like the above)

And the answer is always single stage paints.

It's a little messier but a lot easier to do the work and the before and after results are usually very dramatic.

[sullysdetailing]

Nice work I have seen you use this car in alot of the single stage post on here.

[Mike Phillips]

Nice work I have seen you use this car in alot of the single stage post on here.

It does come in handy...

I use to use the Mercedes-Benz you see on the label of Ultimate Compound, (another single stage paint I've buffed out), but the color red gets all icky looking on computer monitors.

[Charleston]

Any reasons to not try this combo on a SS paint job with foam pads and a pc7424xp?

[c5errr]

thats an awesome transformation

[Mike Phillips]

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ny reasons to not try this combo on a SS paint job with foam pads and a pc7424xp?

No reason at all... should work pretty good. Use a foam cutting pad for the M105.

thats an awesome transformation

These are my favorite types of projects.

Bringing the dead back to life!

[The Guz]

This was an amazing transformation. Oh how the the name ranchero brings back memories. My dad use to own a 73. It's a shame he had to get rid of it due to the floor rusting out.

[Mike Phillips]

This was an amazing transformation. Oh how the the name ranchero brings back memories. My dad use to own a 73. It's a shame he had to get rid of it due to the floor rusting out.

I actually like the 6th and 7th generation Ford Rancheros as they look good with the square headlights and lots of chrome... even better than their counterpart the El Camino in the late 1970's...





The guy that owned it at the time I buffed it out sold it a few years ago and the new owner tracked me down via pictures of it on our forum to ask me a few questions. Alas all I know about it is/was

• Paint was oxidized
• Made paint shiny