Gleaming Kleen- 1939 Alvis 4.3 Litre Vanden Plas

[Gleaming Kleen]

This saw a trip out to Wales to detail this lovely restored Alvis and had 17 hours of work put into it. This was booked in to soley concentrate on the paintwork and add a some protection.

Its a 1939 4.3Litre Short Chassis Vanden Plas Tourer, only 12 of these ever were built with this one being #12. This car has recently been featured in Classic and Sportscar As well as winning the concour for pre-1955 cars at the Antwerp Classic Saloon show last month

This was completely restored to a very high standard in 2007 and the engine on this is a bit special so I have been told. Its a short stroke and made completely from steel, has performance cam shaft, 225 BHP and 312lb ft of torque


Vehicle was only covered in light dust so I washed it using CG waterless wash -ONE and then was clayed with Sonus green. Correction was carried out using Menzerna 106fa on a finishing pad. This acheived a good level of correction but did leave behind some defects, with the levels of paint found I wasnt prepaed to go any further.

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Engine Area was very clean so just a quick wipe down with Quick Finish was needed
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SV cleaner fluid was applied by hand followed by 2 coats of SV Divine. Tyres dressed with SV Pneu
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thanks for looking

[9D4E420]

Once again fabulous work sir.:) It must have been fun working on such a rare car.

[OCDinPDX]

That is awesome!

Great work, as always.

[Troy@Protekt]

Keep it up. You`re starting to get the hang of it.;)

:gotcha:

[flash gordon]

What more can be said.....Jay, Your Skills are Tremendous Mate:bigups

[audiboy]

Nice work. It looks like you took care of a good percentage of the imperfections.

[klink10]

Stunning....thanks for the nice photos.