1962 Triumph TR-3A Detail

[the0ne]

This is my dads car, I learned how to drive a stick shift on this car many years ago, I finally had time to clean her up :)



The paint on this made me MAD, its 20 years old and never ever has been cleaned properly. I tired many different combinations of pads/compounds to try to buff out the swirls/imperfections but nothing really worked the way I wanted to.



I tried:



Orange Propel; OHC - nothing

Orange Propel; SSR.2.5 - little different

Green Propel; SSR.2.5 - better





Ended up using Green Propel with 3M Compound, Followed by Blue Propel with OPT polish and AIO on a Blue Propel. Also there were deep blackish waterspots on the car, I couldnt get rid of, any ideas?



Before:



http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/655/before3up.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2372/before17rd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)



Afters



http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1159/after47kk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8273/after51vo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1488/after36sd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8416/after12yc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Scottwax]

:eek: Awesome car!



Interesting you had to go down in pad aggressiveness to get better results-were you having any hazing issues with the more aggressive pads?

[the0ne]

:eek: Awesome car!



Interesting you had to go down in pad aggressiveness to get better results-were you having any hazing issues with the more aggressive pads?





Yea, alot more hazing, and the aggressive pads were cutting in the paint, the paints were ALL red.

[94BlkStang]

That is one nice TR3. My dad had a few of those back in the late 60`s and early 70`s. Unfortunately I wasn`t old enough to drive then. :(

[euro]

the frontal shot looks...oh, so nice.

[TriumphGT6]

Beautiful Work. The car is in excellent shape too.



Now come do mine (or buy it, $4k):



http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/triumphgt6/triumphlincolnbackground.jpg



GT6