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This is a buddies 1954 Ford Customline. I had detailed this over 6-7 years ago but it was clearly time to detail her again.
The lacquer finish was somewhat faded.
I first attempted to polish the finish with #105 but it was ineffective. Polishing faded lacquer with a wool pad loads up the pad with dead paint pretty quickly. #105 has a very hard but tiny grit to it. I needed something "grittier" and went with #85. #85 is an oilier product and worked really nice.
Some areas where so faded I elected to colorsand them with 2000 grit first before polishing with #85.
I polished out all the hard to reach areas with my "baby" Meguiars foam cutting pad.
Here you can see the little pad loading up with dead paint from just polishing around the door handle.
The lacquer finish was somewhat faded.
I first attempted to polish the finish with #105 but it was ineffective. Polishing faded lacquer with a wool pad loads up the pad with dead paint pretty quickly. #105 has a very hard but tiny grit to it. I needed something "grittier" and went with #85. #85 is an oilier product and worked really nice.
Some areas where so faded I elected to colorsand them with 2000 grit first before polishing with #85.
I polished out all the hard to reach areas with my "baby" Meguiars foam cutting pad.
Here you can see the little pad loading up with dead paint from just polishing around the door handle.
) , work from trunk 
just kidding 
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