A Beautiful After

[Brenton]

So this is a 1977 Triumph Spitfire 1500, all original paint. Totally oxidized rust coloured paint, worst I`ve seen outside of red. The pearl white hard top wasn`t too bad, just dirty and stained, and came out fantastic. The chrome is awful, and I`m still looking for a way to fix it. Crappy camera work, and the before shots didn`t turn out, the afters are just fair.
Pretty bad damage on the front end, and he might repaint anyway.

Rust Paint Treatment:
Wash with Meguiar`s Deep Crystal
Ducan Clay with Ducan Re-flect Spray & Wash
Taped off trim, etc.
Farecla G6 with Wool Pad, several passes at 1000-1400-1800 rpm on rotary (only 1000rpm on crevices, and there were a lot of them, lots of hand compounding too)
Farecla G6 with Black Heavy Cutting Edge Pad, same routine
Farecla G10 with Blue Polishing Edge Pad, two passes 1000-1800 rpm
Washed & Dried
Cleaned with Duca-Solv paint cleaner
Meguiar`s NXT Paste
The Treatment Carnauba Wax (next day)

On the hard top:
Farecla G6 by hand in tight areas and stains
Farecla G10 with Yellow Medium Cutting Edge Pad, 1000-1800 rpm, 4 passes
Farecla G10 with soft Farecla finishing pad, 1000-1800 rpm, 2 passes
Washed & Dried
Cleaned with Duca-Solv paint cleaner
Meguiar`s NXT Paste
The Treatment Carnauba Wax (next day)

Trunk before with right side gone over once:

Driver door before:

A close-up of the oxidization:


After:

[Beemerboy]

Nice work single stage paints are one of mt favs to work on

[Brenton]

Nice work single stage paints are one of mt favs to work on

Really thin paint, though.
It looks like someone detailed about a decade ago. They burned through in 3 or 4 areas, and -- ughh -- they burned the polish pad into 3 of the 4 black bumpers that augment the chrome. Awful work.

[ShineProDetails]

SS fun. Looks alot better.