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

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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.





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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.



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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.

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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.



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



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



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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.



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[jtford95]

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]

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

[gmblack3]

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

[imported_NRZ]

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]

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]

Wow. What a come back.

Great work...





Love the car. Now those are whitewalls.

[Pats300zx]

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

[Barry Theal]

very nice work joe!

[imported_Picus]

Awesome. I love the car and the restoration. Are there any plans to do something with the chrome?

[Apollo_Auto]

Nice save Joe!

[Bobby G]

Joe, very nice job bringing that paint back from the dead! The owner must be thrilled. I hope that garage it and kep your fine work waxed.