First Place for Worst Paint - 1942 Olds Extreme Makeover

[Mike Phillips]

First Place for Worst Paint - 1942 Olds Extreme Makeover (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pictures-autogeek-s-car-week/85508-first-place-worst-paint-1942-olds-extreme-makeover.html)


Bar none, the paint on this car gets First Place for Worst Paint. I don't think I've ever worked on a car with worse paint.

If you think it looks bad in the pictures you should see it in person...

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82220



Here's my Test Spot

Process

Step 1: Compound 3 times using Meguiar's M100 with Lake Country 7.5" Wool Cutting Pad on Flex PE14 about 1200 RPMs

Step 2: Polish 1 time using Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish with Lake Country Yellow Foam Hybrid Light Polish using Flex 3401 on the 6.0 Speed Setting

Step 3: Machine wax using Blackfire Black Wax on the Griot's 3" Mini Polisher using a Rupes 4" White Foam Finishing Pad on about the 4.0 speed setting.


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82399

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And yeah... when I was doing the compounding step I was pushing hard...


:)

[Mike Phillips]

Just to document the "before"


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82409

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[Mike Phillips]

More before.....


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82421

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The word trashed comes to mind....


:dunno:

[Mike Phillips]

I don't think the word horrific is descriptive enough....


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82431

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Where's the Ugh.... emoticon?


:D

[Mike Phillips]

And she doesn't look any better in the sunlight....


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82192

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:dig:

[Mike Phillips]

Well that's our project tonight.... hope all the guys come ready to work harder than they ever have....


Pizza gets here at 7:00pm and we need to be through the rotary compounding step before we eat....


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[Don M]

Where's the Ugh.... emoticon?


:D


I think the one you want is the vomit emoticon, that's just disgusting that they would let a classic car get like that.

[haris300]

nooooo

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Man that is horrific paint!

Looks like you have to chop pretty hard!

[lawrenceSA]

WOW that paint looks trashed. I bet the owner is going to be super happy with the transformation once completed.

[EVOlved]

Wow no responses to how this went tonight I guess it beat everyone up.

[Mike Phillips]

Wow no responses to how this went tonight I guess it beat everyone up.




I'd say yes... this was a tuff buff...

A couple of guys asked me if we could get better results by wetsanding the paint and the answer is "yes" except that I personally didn't want the responsibility for completing a full wetsand cut and buff without making any mistakes on paint this neglected and I also knew it that to do it right and to do it safely would require starting on a Saturday morning when everyone is fresh, not at the end of the day after everyone including me has already put in a full day's work.

So we cut her hard using M100, then polished and then waxed and stuck a fork it her and called her done.

Hang tight for the after pictures.... one thing for sure... I'm really glad I documented the heck out of the before condition... it's just too easy for people to forget where we started from....


:)

[Pinpoint_Precision]

Wow, that looked disgusting for a beautiful car. I can't wait to see the after.

[Tato]

Wow, that looked disgusting for a beautiful car. I can't wait to see the after.

+1 here, can't wait! Just too busy today, but I'll be following the updates. Hope everything went fine.

[Mike Phillips]

First, here's the products we ended up using...

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82446


The shop sounded like a Hornets Nest with all the rotary buffer chopping on the car. Here's a shot of the buffing pads we used for the first step with the M100


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82447


Hang tight as I take process the after shots....


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=82448


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