’52 Chevy Truck, Paint Correction and CQuartz Finest Application

[RaskyR1]

This truck belongs to a good client of mine who was looking to have Finest applied to it after having me do his new C7. The truck itself was absolutely beautiful, and you could really tell that the shop who built it had put a lot of time and pride into the restoration. However, it was finished back in 2009, so after 5 years there was a good amount of swirls that had accumulated as well as some deeper scratches too, many which required an additional pass or two to remove. It was originally scheduled for a 2-step correction, but I ended up doing a little more than that on most the truck and all the small intricate areas, not to mention the sheer amount of surface area, really added up on the clock. In total I had around 45hrs into this job and achieved about 95% correction.

Rather than hit it really hard, my go to for correction was HD Adapt on the Rupes 21 with Megs MF Finishing pads. While this combo cut a little slower and required an additional pass or two on the deeper scratches than a more aggressive process, it also produced little to no dust, finished down virtually LSP ready, and it made remaining defects very easy to see.
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Some 50/50 shots after compounding, no fishing polish yet.
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Inside of the bed was also polished. I chose to use small offset machines here.
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Swirls on the top of the front bumper panels.
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After Adapt on the G110v2 with 3” MF Cutting pads. You can see this combo didn’t finish as well as the Rupes 21 and MFFP combo, but still an easy clean up with a finishing polish.
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Door and hood compounded, cowl was done with the G110v2 and 3” MF cutting pads.
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The areas around the box were the most challenging, especially just above the wheel wells.
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I carefully used my Rupes TA50 to polish these areas
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Fenix LED shot after using Rupes 21 and HD Adapt and MFFP
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Final polishing was done with HD Polish. Car was wiped down with Earser and then 2 coats of CQF were applied.

Finished pics….lots of them! :)
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I did a quick polish on the wheels by hand with HD Metal, nothing crazy though.
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Fenix LED
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Brinkmann Dual Xenon
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Finally I get some good sun pics of a car! Yea!
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Heading home
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Thanks for looking,
Rasky

[zmcgovern45]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/Raskyr1/1952%20Chevy%20Truck/20140714-DSC_3197.jpg
^show off :drool:


... but in all seriousness, absolutely stunning. Your write ups are always a treat to look through. Great work bud.

[Mike Phillips]

Love these classic curvy trucks!

Stellar work as usual Chad!


:dblthumb2:

[EVOlved]

Wow fantastic work Chad!! I hope he has a car show to go to and be judged in now. Because that is a shoe in!!

[JHL88]

That's what Im talkin bout.

[Eric@CherryOnTop]

Amazing, that truck has some best of show trophies in its future.


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[AutowerxDetailing]

Epic.

[yello430]

very cool truck
awesome work on the paint correction!

[mbkite]

Top notch always outstanding work done by r1...

[RobertJ34]

Great work man! Love the truck. Became an old school chevy man due to one of my neighbors..he just had his 54 belair painted.

[iron_worker]

Wow!!!

I've got a '53 that is just waiting for me to do something like that to. Thanks for the inspiration!

IW

[VISITOR]

looks terrific. HD products (a line that caters to the enthusiast/pro) are the way of the future IMO. they keep improving on products (and devoloping new ones as well), of course with feedback with top detailers like yourself who keep pushing the envelope to achieve nothing but the best...

[Pats300zx]

Outstanding Chad !!!

[Zwolf]

That is awesome. But you forgot the before pics..;)

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Just kidding. Great truck, great work, great pics

[nissenc1337]

Very nice work! I'm hoping my Race Red mustang looks half as good when I'm done with it.