1970 Chevy Monte Carlo & Blackfire One Step

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Spent the last two days with a nice looking '70 Chevy Monte Carlo. 125K+ miles. The vehicle was repainted BC/CC. The owner didn't opt for a multi-step makeover so I did what I could using Blackfire One Step with my Flex 3401 and white/orange LC Hybrid pads.

Gotta love these older cars - huge flat panels and chrome....no plastic trim and funky body lines.

Did a waterless wash with WG Uber.

Polished the side pipes with Pinnacle Exhaust Cleaner & Brightener and applied 5 coats of Mckee's 37 Tire Coating.

Turned out pretty well considering the vehicle is almost as old as me. My teenage son had no clue where/how to fuel the car. Sadly, I knew right where to look :)

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Meeting the owners tonight at a local car show. I know they're gonna love it. Thanks for looking!
David
 
Thanks for sharing this. I've never seen a 70's era Monte Carlo with side pipes...definitely a different look. i love the old school Cragar S/S rims, too. For the record, I'm old enough to know where to fill these up.....so you're not alone in that demographic. Did I read correctly that you put McKees Tire Coating on those side pipes? What did you polish the wheels with, if anything?
 
Definitely my favorite year for the Monte Carlo. It looks great, Im sure the customer will be pleased.
 
david b said:
Spent the last two days with a nice looking '70 Chevy Monte Carlo. 125K+ miles. The vehicle was repainted BC/CC. The owner didn't opt for a multi-step makeover so I did what I could using Blackfire One Step with my Flex 3401 and white/orange LC Hybrid pads.
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My favorite combo for these types of cars and this demographic of people.


david b said:
Gotta love these older cars - huge flat panels and chrome....no plastic trim and funky body lines.
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I'm 100% with you on the body design of these era cars. So easy to work on compared to new "Bic" car.

Plus the "cool factor". I'm afraid we're never going to see the restoration catalogs like are available for Monte Carlos for the Ford Fusion or the Toyota Prius. Just sayin....



david b said:
Did a waterless wash with WG Uber.

Polished the side pipes with Pinnacle Exhaust Cleaner & Brightener and applied 5 coats of Mckee's 37 Tire Coating.

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Quick simple easy to use product, dramatck results. KISS = Keep it Simple Simon


david b said:
Turned out pretty well considering the vehicle is almost as old as me. My teenage son had no clue where/how to fuel the car. Sadly, I knew right where to look :)
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Another styling design all the new breed of engineers went away from to match the collective hive mentality of the masses. :laughing:



david b said:
Meeting the owners tonight at a local car show. I know they're gonna love it. Thanks for looking!

David
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I'm confident they will love it and no doubt send you their friends that also have cool cars like this Monte.


Nice work David.

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I put your pictures in your free gallery here on AGO...


Beautiful body lines and easy to buff large flat panels. N

o stupid plastic trim to have to tape-off or watch fade-to-ugly over time...

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This is obviously a before picture...

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Before with swirl finder light...

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After picture after BLACKFIRE One Step

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It takes more than one pad to buff out a car

Here's a message to the rest of us and especially anyone "new" to machine buffing. Correctly buffing out a car via a one-step cleaner/wax or when using compounds or polishes means you need more than one pad. In a perfect world, and especially for large vehicles in neglected condition, you want one pad per panel.

Also - a trick of the trade that I share in my classes is to focus a little more attention on the major gloss panels and also the panels that the owner will look at the most, which are usually the hood and trunk lid because they can look down on them, (waist high). I'm not sure if this is what David did but my guess is he used the orange cutting pads for the hood and possibly the trunk to really cut out the defects and perfect the paint and then re-polished using the white polishing pads to ensure no pad haze from the more aggressive foam cutting pads. The end result is a one-step process where David gave the major gloss panels a little more attention and by doing so....

Under promised and over delivered


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Last of the classic single round headlight era...

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Engineer #1 - Hmmm what can we do with this rectangular shaped mandatory component on a car?

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Engineer #2: Let's engineer a hinge into the lower half and hide the gas filler neck.

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Some Monte Carlos came with a Big Block Chevy!


Now that's bragging rights!


Again, nice work David!

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Good work! Nice looking Monte! These are the kind of projects that make me smile.
 
Thanks all for the feedback. Just some additional info...

I applied McKee's 37 Tire Coating to the TIRES - not the side pipes. The wheels looked good from a distance but up close, they were all pitted so I didn't do anything to them other than clean them with Meg's D143 non-acid wheel & tire cleaner. Good stuff btw.

Mike's feedback regarding my process was 100% spot on and something he taught us last year at the detailing class at Lake Country Mfg. I did in fact use the more aggressive orange cutting pads on the hood and trunk and went back over it with the white pad in the hopes of making those big panels look their best.

I tend to use a LOT of pads. Yes, I probably use more product by doing this(you have to prime each one and then apply your working product), but I find it's faster just to switch to a clean dry pad and continue on vs cleaning on the fly, etc. I tend to work the product heavy or wet, which allows me to work a larger area than 2 x 2 and gets me to the finish line faster :)

Sadly, I can't seem to figure out how to load my pics into my gallery and then include them as part of my post, so I end up adding the pics as thumbnails. I've read all of Mike's tutorials and still no luck.

David
 
Awesome work and write up!

Did a Chevrolet Caprice '70 with a 454 original a couple of weeks ago. The panels as you say is awesome to work on and no tapeing is nice too.

/Tony
 
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