1954 Hudson Hornet polished with Rupes UHS

[Mike Phillips]

1954 Hudson Hornet polished with Rupes UHS (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pictures-thursday-night-projects/86766-1954-hudson-hornet-polished-rupes-uhs.html)


Before Pictures

I practice documenting the true and accurate condition of all the cars that go through any of our garage projects and this last Saturday, during Autogeek's Cars & Coffee with Dennis Gage I took some great pictures using full overhead bright sunlight to capture the current condition of the paint on this classic and rare 1954 Hudson Hornet Convertible.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87199



Since Dennis was here I asked him to give me a hand... literally....

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Thanks Dennis!



Here's a few more shots....


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And a few more....


The swirls have built up over the last decade or so since the custom paint job was sprayed on this car. This is normal as show cars tend to get wiped a lot but rarely re-polished the correct way.

Here's the rear driver's side fender...

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87211


Same area on the car only I've zoomed in....

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87212



Driver's door....

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The other side and in fact the entire car pretty much is in the same condition.


So as you can see this car needs some polishing to restore it to a show car finish worthy of the Hudson marque....


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[Mike Phillips]

Last night Todd Helme, the Technical Sales Manager for Rupes North America joined us for a Live Broadcast and after the broadcast we used the new Rupes UHS System to buff out this Hudson.

Both Todd and I did Test Spots and from experience we both agreed the custom paint job on this Hudson was on the hard side. That made this a perfect demo car for the new UHS polishing compound and UHS foam buffing pad.

Below are the pictures off my camera in the order they were taken....


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87320

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[Mike Phillips]

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Next up... the beauty shots!


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[Mike Phillips]

Here are the beauty shots...

No more swirls or holograms, just a totally clear clearcoat finish that allows the beautiful metallic flake to pop as it shines through....

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87361

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A huge thank you to Bill for trusting Autogeek with your classic Hudson Hornet.

Thank you to Todd Helme for joining us for this project and sharing tons of information about the Rupes Paint Polishing System.

Thank you to all the guys that attended for their passion for perfection.

Thank you to Bob, Yancy, Meghan and all the staff here at Autogeek that work behind the scenes to make projects like these a success.


Products Used

Tonight we used the new Rupes UHS Polishing Compound and Foam pads plus the Rupes Bigfoot Orbital Polishers.

All Rupes Products (http://www.autogeek.net/rupes-polishers.html)

To seal the paint and create the incredible glassy looking finish we used Pinnacle Black Label products.

Pinnacle Black Label Diamond Paint Coating (http://www.autogeek.net/pinnacle-paint-coating.html)

Pinnacle Black Label Surface Cleansing Polish (http://www.autogeek.net/black-label-polish.html)


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Thank you everyone! Comments, questions and feedback welcome and encouraged!


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[Mike Phillips]

We used this car for our "Cars & Coffee Tech Session", which makes Autogeek's Cars & Coffee unique among all the cars and coffee shows that take place early on Saturday mornings across the country.


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=86911

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For our Tech Session we demonstrated,

1. How to inspect the paint with your sense of touch and using the Baggie Test.

2. How to inspect the paint using overhead sunlight, overhead florescent lights and swirl finder lights.

3. How to use a Porter Cable 7424XP dual action polisher with Pinnacle Advanced Compound to remove the swirls.

4. How to use a Porter Cable 7424XP dual action polisher with Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish to maximize the gloss and clarity of the clearcoat finish after compounding.

5. How to use the Porter Cable to machine apply Pinnacle Liquid Souveran Carnauba Wax by machine.


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=86913



Here's the before shot of the swirls on the hood.....

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87216



Here's the AFTER shot for the section used for the demonstration.

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This Thursday.... we finish the job.


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[Mike Phillips]

Be some of the first people in the U.S. to test out and and use the new Rupes HHS Easy Gloss Compound and matching foam buffing pads.


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=86603

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[Mike Phillips]

And of course, the complete range of Rupes Polishers including,

Rupes Bigfoot 21
Rupes Bigfoot 15
Rupes Duetto 12
Rupes Mini 12
Rupes TA50



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[Tato]

LIVE, unbelievable!, I'll be there (here, I mean) watching every moment.

Counting hours for this meeting,

Good luck to all,

Kind Regards.

[Mike Phillips]

LIVE, unbelievable!, I'll be there (here, I mean) watching every moment.

Counting hours for this meeting,

Good luck to all,

Kind Regards.


Yancy will share the link to watch the live broadcast as soon as he's updated some graphics and files.

It's been a while since we did a live broadcast so share the link to this thread with all your friends and mark your calendars for this Thursday starting at 5:30pm Eastern Time.


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[FrankS]

Looking forward to try out this new system from Rupes :xyxthumbs:

[haris300]

That thing is beautiful.

[refreshauto]

really looking forward to this one

[Chris@AutoCleanse]

See you guys on Thursday, love trying out new products.

[spiralout462]

Should be worth a watch! You gotta love the Todd Helme, Mike Phillips collaboration. Lots to learn from these guys!

[Mike Phillips]

12 Rupes Bigfoot Polishers and the NEW UHS ready to go!

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/watermark.php?file=87292




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