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Mike and I were contacted by the owner of this 1955 Ford Thunderbird to see if we could improve a touch up on the passenger fender where a ladder had scraped it. The repair had a "frankensteinish" look to it.
The owner had purchased the T-bird from an auction a few months before and was still discovering some issues - one of which was that it was 2 different shades of black - you will see in the pictures.
It needed a deep paint correction with lots of damp sanding. Some defects were just too deep to remove completely.
All taped up and ready to go:
Mike and I spent a few hours testing machines, pads, and products until we finally decided on the following combinations:
Deep Defects
For the first round of sanding with 1500 unigrit, we taped all around the repair so we could bring the level down to the surrounding paint without unnecessarily thinning the surrounding paint:
After taping, we wetsanded with 1500 unigrt, followed by 2500 by hand:
We finish sanding with a 3" 3000 grit meg's foam backed pad on the PC @ speed 1:
Then polished it out with M105 via PC on a LC 4" yellow pad @ speed 6:
If the touch up paint were a close match to the fender paint, you probably wouldn't be able to see it unless you knew it was there.
Notice the different shade of black on the headlight bucket?
We then proceeded to damp sand many areas with the G110 and Meg's 3000 grit foam backed sanding disc. We used speed 2:
Notice the 2 different shades of black? That's the driver's side front fender on the left and the door on the right.
After damp sanding, we followed with alot of rotary work:
Inspection in the sun showed were were on the right track. Right side has been sanded and compounded with the rotary and 105:
Now that's what we're talking about:
And the afters:
We topped this beauty with M20 then followed a few hours later with M26.
We are happy to report that this T-Bird won a 3rd place in it's class in the prestigious "Run To The Pines" car show a few weeks after this paint correction
Thanks for looking!
The owner had purchased the T-bird from an auction a few months before and was still discovering some issues - one of which was that it was 2 different shades of black - you will see in the pictures.
It needed a deep paint correction with lots of damp sanding. Some defects were just too deep to remove completely.
All taped up and ready to go:
Mike and I spent a few hours testing machines, pads, and products until we finally decided on the following combinations:
Deep Defects
- Damp sand with G110 and Meg's 3000 grit foam backed sanding disc
- M105 via rotary on a Solo Maroon pad, 2000 RPM / 1200 RPM
- M95 via Flex on purple foamed wool pad
- M105 via PC on LC 4" yellow pad @ speed 6/5
- M205 via G110 on LC 5.5" green pad @ Speed 5/4
For the first round of sanding with 1500 unigrit, we taped all around the repair so we could bring the level down to the surrounding paint without unnecessarily thinning the surrounding paint:
After taping, we wetsanded with 1500 unigrt, followed by 2500 by hand:
We finish sanding with a 3" 3000 grit meg's foam backed pad on the PC @ speed 1:
Then polished it out with M105 via PC on a LC 4" yellow pad @ speed 6:
If the touch up paint were a close match to the fender paint, you probably wouldn't be able to see it unless you knew it was there.
Notice the different shade of black on the headlight bucket?
We then proceeded to damp sand many areas with the G110 and Meg's 3000 grit foam backed sanding disc. We used speed 2:
Notice the 2 different shades of black? That's the driver's side front fender on the left and the door on the right.
After damp sanding, we followed with alot of rotary work:
Inspection in the sun showed were were on the right track. Right side has been sanded and compounded with the rotary and 105:
Now that's what we're talking about:
And the afters:
We topped this beauty with M20 then followed a few hours later with M26.
We are happy to report that this T-Bird won a 3rd place in it's class in the prestigious "Run To The Pines" car show a few weeks after this paint correction
Thanks for looking!
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