63` Corvette Stingray

[CelicaLover]

This is a 63` Corvette that is owned by a local funeral home owner. The story of the car is a bit long but it had seen some abuse in it`s life. The owner wasn`t expecting perfection but we did the best we could. As a preface the clear on this car was extremely hard as

evidenced by the process. Sorry for my spelling folks doing this in a hurry.



Process:



Presoak w/gilmore and Gold Class followed by wash with Gold Class and a Walmart Euro Mitt.



Car was then dried with absorber and the engine tackled using tarminator and several scrub brushes and alot of muscle.



Car was then rolled into the garage and clayed



Rims: Tarminator then scrubbed using #1 steel wool and followed by megs metal polish. Spokes untouched due to owner possibly replacing them in the near future.



Tires Scrubbed with Westleys bleach white X3 and then coated in armor all tire foam. Excess dirt wiped off and then followed by a coat of no touch.



Paint Polishing: Started off with polishing pad and #80 on the PC. After finding that that did nothing jumped up to OC on a megs cutting pad. Still nothing. Then jumped up again to OHC on megs cutting pad. It was doing something but not what Dan and I wanted. So we bumped it up one final step to the most severe thing in our arsenal. A wool compounding pad and OHC which still wasn`t taking out all the swirls. It was finishing down without micromarring which is evidence to the toughness of this classics repaint.



Final Process on the paint was OHC w/ wool compounding pad 1500 to 2100 rpms followed by Megs Cutting pad and OHC 1500 rmps. Then followed by Dan with the PC and a sonus SFX-1 pad with megs 83 on speed 6 to take out any holograms. The surface finished down micromarring free from this combination but some of the deeper swirls still remained.



Paint Protection: We decided to finish with a coat of max wax as the red was just begging for that carnuba warmth it offers.



And now onto the main event.....pictures!

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1601-2.jpg

Here she is upon her initial sudsing

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1602.jpg

Here is the motor...Sorry no afters

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1603.jpg

The wheel all sudsed up waiting for some love

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1605.jpg

Wheels still waiting for that love......

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1607.jpg

Post Wash with Dan working on the engine

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1611.jpg

Dan worked hard on the wheels can you tell which side he has done?

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1610.jpg

The tools of choice

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1614.jpg

The convertible top needed a major cleaning as you can see

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1619.jpg

Swirls and Haze in the finish before

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1618.jpg

Swirls and Haze diminished leaving a nice clean reflection

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1621.jpg

Top polished bottom untouched.



Afters:

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1648.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1639.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1634.jpg

Couldn`t really do much for the interior it needs to be redone



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1646.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1642.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1655.jpg

Theres the love :)

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1636.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/CIMG1665.jpg



http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/th_CIMG1656.jpg (http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/jlb765/?action=view&current=CIMG1656.flv)

[Bigpoppa3346]

Very nice!



I`m working on a 67` Stingray right now, but there isn`t much I can do on the failing paint.



Cool car and nice work.

[Brian_Brice]

:bow :bow :bow :drool: :drool: awesome car...thanks to you two! georgous work my friend.

[awahl63]

Great job!

[20jettatdi03]

that car was rough to work on but it turned out pretty well, didnt it?

[ALTANertive]

Nice job. Any engine after pics?

[CelicaLover]

Sorry, no afters of the engine it looked better but it wasn`t perfect.

[jimmybuffit]

I see this level of work at every car show, classic or new.



Nice car. Needs TLC.



That`s what I see.



Be nice.



JB

[20jettatdi03]

unfortunatly we forgot to take afters of the engine

[CelicaLover]

Are you saying the level of work is bad....?because I think it`s pretty darn good for the 6.5 hours we had and the 200 bucks that we were paid. The paint on that car was rock hard. Megs #85 and a compounding pad didn`t touch it. Not sure what you`re trying to say in your post but I think we did pretty well for being sixteen and seventeen yr. old kids.

[Scottwax]

I think you did what you could with what you had to work with. Those wheels need to be rechromed for sure. Really deep wet finish in the after pics, looks a lot better. :up

[joe.p]

Are you saying the level of work is bad....?because I think it`s pretty darn good for the 6.5 hours we had and the 200 bucks that we were paid. The paint on that car was rock hard. Megs #85 and a compounding pad didn`t touch it. Not sure what you`re trying to say in your post but I think we did pretty well for being sixteen and seventeen yr. old kids.

nice work....i think you guys did a great job.

[Invigor]

campanella white, ftw!

[gbackus]

Are you saying the level of work is bad....?because I think it`s pretty darn good for the 6.5 hours we had and the 200 bucks that we were paid. The paint on that car was rock hard. Megs #85 and a compounding pad didn`t touch it. Not sure what you`re trying to say in your post but I think we did pretty well for being sixteen and seventeen yr. old kids.





I think what he was getting at was that the car needs more than just a detail, I could be wrong though.

[20jettatdi03]

campanella white, ftw!

that is my sis` car. I had to use hers caus mine was in the shop from a minor accident and the body shop messed it up so my car goes back in tonite :wall