Extreme make-over -1941 Plymouth now with a Superior Shine

Superior__Shine · 09-11-09, 07:36

A Superior Shine Blast from the Past!

Some of you will remember this one.

I came across these pics recently while going through some old files and thought I'd share it with Autopia.

Here is a 1941 Plymouth I did in June 2005. I did a write up of it on another forum (which Scottwax was kind enough to link back to) but I never did an official write up of it on Autopia.

When I first saw the car I thought nothing short of a complete repaint could save her. Following a test spot I did I changed my mind and thought maybe she could give me a shine if I treated her just right.

Superior__Shine · 09-11-09, 07:39

After I "bonded" with the car a bit I decided this was going to be an old school rub-out. The paint wasn't original. I guess it was repainted in the 50s or 60s.

My collection of "clear coat safe" 80-series Meguiars products probably wasn't going to cut it with this vehicle. I would need to get very aggressive to remove the thick coat of dead paint from the surface and hopefully I would find paint underneath that I could pamper and persuade to give me a brilliant shine.

Again my working conditions were less than ideal.

I decided that I needed to go at this like they used to back in the day when Meguiars put out their #1 and #4 paint cleaners.

I have a product in my arsenal that reminds me of old #4 and I used it on this old 41, Meguiars marine line #49 Heavy Duty Oxidation Remover. Yes thats right I used heavy duty fiberglass compound on this old girl.

Superior__Shine · 09-11-09, 07:42

We had to take it inch by inch. If I skipped a spot it would stick out like a sore thumb.

Here you can see the difference between the rear fender that is already rubbed out with #49 and the adjacent panel.

Here is a pretty neat 50/50 shot of the hood.

We had to stop often and clean our buffing pads. They loaded up quick with compound and dead paint.

Superior__Shine · 09-11-09, 07:47

We followed #49 with diamond cut then #21.

We had 11 hard hours into polihing the paint (no tires, windows, chrome etc..) but they were all worth it.

jtford95 · 09-11-09, 10:18

That thing is way cool. Great job!!! I like the army jeep as well.To bad you can't wax o.d. green. Is the the owner's fire truck, or did you make that much heat to correct that paint?

craigdt · 09-11-09, 11:01

Nice job. That really looks like a lot of fun to work with.

gmblack3a · 09-12-09, 07:50

Very nice Joe, you always seem to work on many classics.

NRZ · 09-12-09, 08:04

That should be the defination of a detail. I am very impressed with your work and feel like you need a big pat on the back!

Again, very nice job restoring a classic.

howareb · 09-12-09, 08:30

Joe,

Nice job man. I must admit that I did not read a thing. I just looked at the first pic and then scrolled down to the last. Amazing work. I am now going to read it

dschribs · 09-12-09, 03:49

Wow. What a come back.
Great work...

Love the car. Now those are whitewalls.

Pats300zx · 09-12-09, 04:15

Beautiful work Joe. Way to bring that old girl back to life...

bufferbarry · 09-12-09, 04:21

very nice work joe!