Mike Phillips
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Detailing Classes - 1959 Dodge Royal
This morning I picked up one of the training cars for this weekend's detailing class. This is a 1959 Dodge Royal. From what I can tell it's all original except at some point in its life it was repainted. The paint appears to be single stage two tone green with the darker portions having a metallic flake.
Also at some point in it's life someone buffed it out using a rotary buffer and left holograms throughout the entire finish.
Here's a few pictures, some taken outside this morning around 10:00am and the rest after I drove the car into the garage.
I do my best to make all my classes not only educational but fun as well and working on classics like this not only makes your experience fun and memorable, but large classics like this provide plenty of hands-on time getting a feel for one of the many tools you get to learn how to use here at our detailing classes.
The lines you see are the tale-tale sign of holograms inflicted by the misuse of a rotary buffer.
You can see the hologram lines in this shot too...
While these look just like cobweb swirls, this section of paint was buffed the same way as the hood you just don't see the hologram lines but these swirls were caused by a rotary buffer also...
This car is right at 19 feet long!
Here's a shot looking out the front window...
This Dodge has a dash mounted, push button automatic.
These cars had large roomy interiors. The drive train was designed to not only motor this 5000 pound car down the road but also carrying 6 adults and a trunk full of luggage.
This morning I picked up one of the training cars for this weekend's detailing class. This is a 1959 Dodge Royal. From what I can tell it's all original except at some point in its life it was repainted. The paint appears to be single stage two tone green with the darker portions having a metallic flake.
Also at some point in it's life someone buffed it out using a rotary buffer and left holograms throughout the entire finish.
Here's a few pictures, some taken outside this morning around 10:00am and the rest after I drove the car into the garage.
I do my best to make all my classes not only educational but fun as well and working on classics like this not only makes your experience fun and memorable, but large classics like this provide plenty of hands-on time getting a feel for one of the many tools you get to learn how to use here at our detailing classes.
The lines you see are the tale-tale sign of holograms inflicted by the misuse of a rotary buffer.
You can see the hologram lines in this shot too...
While these look just like cobweb swirls, this section of paint was buffed the same way as the hood you just don't see the hologram lines but these swirls were caused by a rotary buffer also...
This car is right at 19 feet long!
Here's a shot looking out the front window...
This Dodge has a dash mounted, push button automatic.
These cars had large roomy interiors. The drive train was designed to not only motor this 5000 pound car down the road but also carrying 6 adults and a trunk full of luggage.
