I had the chance to detail two amazing Corvettes, both owned my a lucky guy. The '68 was custom built by the same man who designed the batmobile in 1970. It was completely done by hand and everything all fiberglass was layed by hand and leveled by "eye".
Two cars where built in this manner in 1970, both twins, though one did have side pipes. The one with sidepipes went on to tour the world and was the offical "Goodyear Corvette" in the early 70's. At one time this Corvette was owned by Hugh Hefner (Playboy), though I'm not sure how much he actually drove it.
The car was pretty marred up and required 3-4 passes of
Menzerna S.I.P. with an Orange pad @ 1800-2000 rpm to get the correction done. Even at this, I did not have the time nor the facilities to get this car to 100 percent (I was polishing in 100 degree heat in the Miami sun with a cermaclear polish, it was interesting). I would say that the Corvette came out 95 percent defect free, and it was a 100 percent improvement.
After polishing, I layered two coats of Z5pro on top (after a 50/50 wipedown) and dressed the tires with Z16. Again, the Z5pro worked amazingly well, considering the high surface tempatures of the car. Neverdull topped with
NXT Metal Polysh covered chrome, and IG did the glass.
Some before's of the '68, it was in rough shape.
So I settled in for a steady 3 hours of polishing on the rotary. The paint was VERY VERY hard, and defect removal was a time consuming process. Both powergloss and wool pads where not cooperating in the difficult conditions, so I stuck with SIP on an orange pad for all correction and finishing. On the hard paint, it really finished nice.
Split shot, before and after
As you can see, it wasn't 100 percent but the deeper defects where not worth chasing and comprimising the paint or my health (I lost 11 lbs of water weight!)
Before
After
Okay afters...
Here you see the paint job better. 7 different reds are blended together in stunning 1970 fashion!!!
(more on that later 
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