Something different. 1968 AMC Rebel SST convertible!!!

**JDGolden** · 07-19-2018, 10:04 AM

Another one knocked out of the park. What a cool ride.

How do you like the McKees carnauba?

**Desertnate** · 07-19-2018, 11:36 AM

What a great job on that beautiful car. Carnauba wax on a well polished red paint is amazing!

**Justin at Final Inspection** · 07-19-2018, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by JDGolden

Another one knocked out of the park. What a cool ride.

How do you like the McKees carnauba?

I love it. And to be honest I think is very very similar to Pinnacle Sovereign.

Originally Posted by Desertnate

What a great job on that beautiful car. Carnauba wax on a well polished red paint is amazing!

Thanks. I agree. Something about a wax on a old school classic.

**TheBandit** · 07-19-2018, 04:57 PM

That's really awesome! I noticed in the photo below you don't have any masking tape on the trim. Am I being too conservative masking mine off when I polish? Do you have any trouble getting all the way up to the edge with your machine/pads? Did you do anything specifically to clean up the trim?

**Justin at Final Inspection** · 07-19-2018, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by TheBandit

That's really awesome! I noticed in the photo below you don't have any masking tape on the trim. Am I being too conservative masking mine off when I polish? Do you have any trouble getting all the way up to the edge with your machine/pads? Did you do anything specifically to clean up the trim?

Some of the trim that had rubber edging I masked off but the beauty of these old cars with real trim is that you can usually polish them lightly and it will clean them up. Now if the trim was brand new fresh then I would mask it.

I was able to get pretty close without issues. Unfortunately there were some prior sanding marks too close to get out without removing trim which wasn't happening.

I know Mike Phillips mentions about polishing up old trim as you move around the car.

**TheBandit** · 07-19-2018, 06:05 PM

Thank you for the response I am new to detailing and went through the trouble of completely taking off the trim on my '70 Nova to make sure I was able to get behind everything and not worry about missing edges. Some of the trim I just couldn't practically remove. It took some time to mask it all off and I'm not sure if it was necessary. I'm wondering if next time I should just go ahead and polish right up against the trim as it appears you did here.