Dad's 65 Falcon

[JSIN151]

My dad was storing his Falcon at a friends house because he did not have any room in his garage. Well he finally cleared space so when he went to pick it there was all this junk on top of it. Apparently the friend's family member was using his car as storage. Here is the damage:

Just a pic of the car



Here is the damage to the hood



There is much more damage but this is the worst. I did a test spot to see what I could accomplish. I used the following:

Porter cable
Clay w/ QD
M105 w/ 8006
83 w/ 8006

This is the after. Not perfect by any means but an improvement







Here are a couple of reflection shots:
Before



After



I imagine the next step would be to use a rotary w/ wool pad or possibly wet sand the hood. I do not have a rotary yet or any experience wet sanding but I am going to get a hold of a salvage hood and start practicing. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Dad's 65 Falcon

That is a sweet car. Using it for storage. Shame on them. I see a big improvement with the process you used.

[yalerd]

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Glad you could restore it!
It's looking great, keep it up

[Mike Phillips]

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Good save, this looks like the original or at least an older re-paint, is this correct?

This looks like dull, oxidized paint which implies it's a single stage paint.




This after shot looks like it may be a metallic? Can you confirm?

[JSIN151]

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Thank you

My dad loves this car, he was in the process of restoring it when he ran out of funds but after retiring in a year he plans to finish it.

The car was repainted I believe in 2000 and I believe it is a two stage paint. The pad did was clear no green. I talked to my dad this morning and he has a pint of paint in the trunk. When I get off work I am going to check it out see what paint was used. My dad works in CO so when he gets back in a couple of months we are going to work on it some more.

[Mike Phillips]

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If it's a basecoat/clearcoat system then you probably have the film-build to work with as far as wet-sanding and compounding goes but do practice on something that's not important to you first.

After paint has fully cured it's still easy to sand, the difficult part is removing your sanding marks.

The the clarity in the after pics look good is it orange peel you want to remove?

[JSIN151]

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Mike,

Thanks for the info. I believe when the vehicle was repainted it was wet sanded so there shouldn't be any orange peel but I am not sure. I wanted to know if wet sanding would completely remove the scatches or if a rotary w/ wool would take care of it. Some scratches are deep I can get my finger nail in it. Thanks agains

[Mike Phillips]

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Mike,

I wanted to know if wet sanding would completely remove the scratches or if a rotary w/ wool would take care of it.

Some scratches are deep I can get my finger nail in it.

If you can put your fingernail into the scratch then even if you could remove it without going through the clear you still might remove too much paint and cause problems due to too thin of paint down the road.

"Sometimes you're better off to improve a scratch versus completely remove a scratch"

Also, for RIDS which is an acronym for Random Isolated Deeper Scratches, are usually best removed using a technique called Feathersanding, which is where you take some sandpaper and carefully sand on just the scratches and then use a compound with a wool pad on a rotary buffer to remove your sanding marks.

Check out these links,

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10967

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3720

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18794

[HemiMopar]

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Does your dad plan on suing for the damage? I know I would be.

[JSIN151]

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Mike,

Thanks for the tips much appreciated. I will check out those links and see what I can do.

I don't think my dad is going to sue since he lives mostly in CO and the car is in El Paso.