1969 (Hot Rod) Lincoln Continental Mark III

[richy]

I had talked to this customer about doing his car a few years ago and he got around to having me do it. It is a repaint that is not perfect, but my goal was to get it as good as it could be. Now there were some serious issues with this paint. I quoted him 16-20 hours and ended up taking 21. Oh well, he was on a budget and I wasn't going to squabble for an hour. I had 3 deep scratches to fill and wet sand and some very, very deep swirls in the roof and hood and trunk lid as well as quite a bit of scratches. Let's see what it looked like, shall we?




Scuff along wheel opening part of the fender:










Scratched and hazy along the bottom of the roof on both sides.





Another shot of it (it was hard to photograph)








Hello monster chip!!

































Climbing into it to drive it up to work on, I was in awe at the length of the hood and the view from the driver's seat:






First up was the wheels. I had to be careful with them as they were peeling on the inside barrels. They got hit with Megs Wheel Brightener and then neutralized with Zep Citrus and then cleaned with a demoted wash mitt. The tires (horribly brown) got a double shot of Zep 505.

Likewise, I had to be careful washing the car too as some of the window rubbers were incomplete. The car was washed with Megs Hyper Wash and was then followed by a decontamination wash of IronX paste. The car was then brought inside to be clayed. I couldn't wait to get it inside as it was about 90 degrees and humid as can be. Hello portable a/c!! Unfortunately after claying the car with my CarPro clay mitt, the horrors of what awaited me were laid bare. Good thing I had a cigar ready or I would have given this a second thought. I just kept thinking of how I wanted him to be blown away by the car. It's a gorgeous car and deserved to look that way!


The roof was absolutely terrible! Check out these shots. The entire roof was that way!!











The hood was bad too:








Another chip in the leading edge of the hood:


























There were 3 very deep scratches in the left rear quarter panel:











These got my attention first. I filled each one with a pointy toothpick to let it dry at least 12 hours or more until I would get back to it. (It was more like 24 hours by the time I made my way around to that part of the car). The back scratch was the worst. Here it is after filling it:





Here it is the following day after being wet sanded with Megs 1500 and 3000 discs:





Here is the end result after compounding and polishing. It was still faint, but a whole lot better. The other 2 actually completely disappeared.





Ok, since this was a repaint, the paint was rock hard. No easy jobs here for this big brute! I went immediately to my black wool TB pad and M100. Wasn't doing enough. I upped the ante to M101 and my Flex 3401 and that was finally doing it. I did have to attend to each problem area twice and in some cases 3 S's to get the results I was after. This was taking a long time! I had removed the cover from my Flex to see if I could keep it cooler, but no, that was not to be. So, I switched the TB pad to my Rupes 21 and then used my Flex for the 2nd stage which was Megs 205 + burgandy Megs foam pad.


Here is a 50/50 shot of the roof:





I also polished the chrome bumpers. They got M100 + Flex 3401 + yellow B/S pad followed by M205 + burg Megs pad. The chrome improved dramatically. I was quite pleased and knew he would be too. After doing the a/m 2 step process to the whole car, it was time to coat. The coating of choice for this hot rod Lincoln was Americoat. After double coating the wheels, chrome and paint, I baked the paint with my IR lamp. The tires were shot with OB from my air gun at 100%. After 21 hours, here she is:



































I achieved about 95-98% correction on this car which I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do. I was very proud to roll it out in front of him and he was blown away. Thanks for enduring all the pics and staying with me on this journey. As always, your comments are appreciated.

[custmsprty]

Nice work, that things a serious land yacht!

[FrankS]

Outstanding work as usual Richy

[Vue to a kill]

Fantastic work, man!

Was it still running the original 460?

[richy]

Nice work, that things a serious land yacht!

Thanks, and that's a perfect description!

Outstanding work as usual Richy

Thanks kindly Frank!

Fantastic work, man!

Was it still running the original 460?

Thanks bud, and yes, indeed it was.

[Mike Honcho]

That is one cool car! Great job!

[expdetailing]

Beautiful car and excellent work. BTW, what are those spots from around the Continental emblem in the after shot?

[fly07sti]

Damn that's A Lot of car! Would've taken me 21 hours to do the hood and trunk. Great job dude, never cease to impress.

[Rmd]

Great save on an epic car.

[Sicoupe]

You killed it RICHY! beautiful job my friend