http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/25304-secret-removing-oxidation-restoring-show-car-finish-antique-single-stage-paints.html This thread. Follow this verbatim, and your body will feel like you swam up stream, durning flood season. But the shine and...
The paint may be lacquer/single stage. If so Master Mike Phillips has a great thread on 'pushing' Meguiars #7 glaze into the surface to really enrich the paint. You know your work is cut out for you with the shear size of this land yacht.
A practice daily driver/beater that needs resurrected from the dead would be perfect for this newbie to start on. Several in a row would be ideal. Then he may appreciate a pampered ride.
Lately heavy rotation has been Monster Magnet, Metallica, Kid Rocks Devil w/out a cause. Same stuff to train to. Every now and then you have to balance out, SRV, Derailers, Jr Brown, Bill Withers.