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My client wants to 'freshen up' his 1918 White Model 15 truck for possible sale. We are just tackling a few items at a time, as this is a biiig truck!
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This day we just did the hood (top and sides) and the radiator.
I started with the hood sides:
I found it easier to work on them when the sides were horizontal. I protected the window and frame with a work MF
And supported it on the marker light with another work MF
Since this had all the louvers I just hand polished it with #7 and a foam applicator.
Next I taped off the pinstripes and the center hinge, and covered the brass radiator and frame rails. Much easier to take a few minutes to protect things than have to clean polish off them later!
Once it was clean I could see it was not too bad, but it did have some stains from hot water from a day out a few months ago. (The cooling system has been repaired since then.)
Before
After
I used correcting polish on a orange 4" pad for the correction (2 passes). If you look at the first shot you can see it has a big concave section, so 7" or 5.5" pads could not get flush on the surface.
The hood still had a few slight scratches and faint water spots, but without a paint thickness gauge this was all the correction I was comfortable with.
I followed that up with a finishing polish on a 5.5" finishing pad and applied a coat of wax.
Then we hit the radiator with metal polish.
I will update this thread as we continue working on this piece of history.
Here are a few more pictures from a concours event a few years ago:
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Originally Posted by Jason Rose
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