1957 T-Bird Dark Side Detail

Orinda Auto Detail

Opti Coat Pro Certified
This was a great learning experience for myself and Dan of Dark Side Detail. I'm sure we cant be the only one's who have said "what if we try this?" 50 times or so before finishing a car. Every panel of this car was very stuborn as over the last 55 year it had been repainted a bunch. Last known repaint was in 1986.
Process:
Wash with 50/50 dawn and p&s citrus wash
Decon with crystal wash, followed by 3m perfect it clay
All chrome emblems pulled off washed with wheel acid, then polished with Fitz chrome polish
Wheels pulled washed with Alkaline wheel cleaner and then polished front to back with Fitz Aluminum Polish.
Suspension degreased with Enviro-clean 10:1
Paint trizac 3k sand paper used in various places to remove rids.
3m perfect it compound and rotary were used to remove sanding scratches
Flex3401 Orange pad SIP used to remove buffer trash then laid flex trash in its place(wierd lines where color is off)
Flex3401 white pad SIP to then remove the flex trash(we got to this point after about 10 other product pad combos in different test spots)
Flex3401 green polishing pad 3m Ultrafine
Dewalt rotary Red CCS pad Menz rd85 for final polish
wash
Fuzion
Pinnacle Savauran
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all wheels pretty much looked like this before
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Not perfect but much better after Fitz polish, repeated this 3 motr times
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Front's weren't horrible so the came out pretty much like chrome and these are aluminum wheels Bling
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Swirls, Buffer Swirls, and a ton of RIDS
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Checked in the sun
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Emblems put back on and DONE!
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Thanks for looking!
 
Beautiful. Good job
Thank you sir!
Awesome work!!
Thank you Mike,
i love seeing the classics brought back to life. very nice.
Yeah it was a PITA but when it all came together and was said and done it was worth it
You guy's went on the way on this one, looks awesome!:bigups
Yeah If I would of had more pics we really went stupid on this one I forgot to take any pics of interior being done, engine, ect... Intrestingly enough first time I ever polished the under side of a hood. That was interesting to say the least I'm way more flexible than I though I was lol
Awesome work on a classic Joe!
Thanks Todd!
Looks Great! Pulling the emblems always is a nice touch to the finished product.
And yeah it was important on this one because of how dulled out the paint was under them it would never of looked right if we didn't strip it. Thanks John
 
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