GenesisCoupe
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Very nice! I kinda wondered how to rejuvenate old paint, looks like i'll be buying some #7 if i ever have the need.
1976 BMW 2002 Single Stage Restoration
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Thank you all for the kind words. It was a fun project for sure. The owner called me again to thank me and her son as well. He thought that she had got the car a new paint job.
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Thank you once again guys. Yes #7 is always good to have around.
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I sure hope so. Thank you.
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Thank you sir. Yes I agree, it's one of my favorite Bimmers.
Thank you. I have 2 Gallons of #7. It's a must have specially down here in South Florida.
Wow amazing work!
I'm kinda insulted by some of the comments about how its gonna be wasted going to a kid, or how he is gonna wreck it and all that. Really guys? C'mon. I understand there are the idiot teens out there, but there are also many good kids. I'm only 22 so I know where the words are coming from. You never know, this kid could be a car fanatic in the making. We all start somewhere, I wish I could have started with this kinda car. It will teach him alot of responsibility in taking care of a car this old.
That is all I have to say,
Again, good work man!
I'm kinda insulted by some of the comments about how its gonna be wasted going to a kid, or how he is gonna wreck it and all that. Really guys? C'mon. I understand there are the idiot teens out there, but there are also many good kids. I'm only 22 so I know where the words are coming from. You never know, this kid could be a car fanatic in the making. We all start somewhere, I wish I could have started with this kinda car. It will teach him alot of responsibility in taking care of a car this old.
That is all I have to say,
Again, good work man!
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Thank you.
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Excellent, excellent work Francisco!
Most detailers would chopped that dry brittle, antique single stage paint up by attacking it first with a compound when what it really needed was to FIRST be rejuvenated using the oils in the #7 Show Car Glaze.
I saw a someone ask "why" you applied and worked the #7 first so for everyone reading this into the future here's why.
First... it's an option. You don't have to do this. I do and I teach others to do it when it's IMPORTANT to try to do everything possible to preserve and restore, (that's two things), the original paint. Most production and hack detailers would simply compound it.
Second... the BIG IDEA is to take dry, brittle antique paint and make it more workable before you work on it.
By gorging the paint with the oils in the #7 Show Car Glaze and letting the product sit on the surface so the oils penetrate into the paint you do two things,
1. You moisturize the paint. The oils seep and penetrated INTO the paint and revitalize it making it safer to then abrade.
2. The oils revitalize the pigments and it is this little function that these oils are unique for that restores and brings out the full richness of color.
I've used this technique ever since discovering the unique characteristics about the unique oils used to create this product in the early 1900's and I've been told the formula is unchanged since it was perfected about the time the Model T was introduced which was 1908.
This product has been around as long as single stage paints. There is no other product on the market today that I know of that can make that claim not counting Meguiar's #1, #3. I think #5 came out in the 1950's and it's possible all 4 of these products are still as they were when they were created.
Here's a project that Francisco and I knocked out together, one of these days I'll go through all the pictures and create a write-up worthy of this projects. We did the same #7 treatment to this car and the paint literally looked like it was factory new when we were finished.
1955 DeSoto Firedome - Antique Single Stage Paint Restoration
Here's a few before, process and after shots... I'd like to thank PJ, the owner for trusting us with his car and I'd also like to thank Fransisco for being part of the team and all his hard work to transform this car from an ugly duckling to a car that looks like it just rolled out of the show room from a DeSoto Dealership in 1955!
The only editing I did to any of these pictures is to crop out the fluff and resize to 800 pixels wide.
Before
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting (Automatic Depth), with the flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
After
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting with the Flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
Before
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting with the Flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
After
This picture was taken outside in full sun around 2:00pm on Saturday, May 25th using my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the "Full Auto" setting.
This is what the paint looks like in full sun to the naked eye.
Process...
Here's Fransisco machine polishing the paint using Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover on an 6.5" Orange CCS Foam Cutting Pad on the Flex 3401.
Full write-up as soon as I can carve out the time...
Most detailers would chopped that dry brittle, antique single stage paint up by attacking it first with a compound when what it really needed was to FIRST be rejuvenated using the oils in the #7 Show Car Glaze.
I saw a someone ask "why" you applied and worked the #7 first so for everyone reading this into the future here's why.
First... it's an option. You don't have to do this. I do and I teach others to do it when it's IMPORTANT to try to do everything possible to preserve and restore, (that's two things), the original paint. Most production and hack detailers would simply compound it.
Second... the BIG IDEA is to take dry, brittle antique paint and make it more workable before you work on it.
By gorging the paint with the oils in the #7 Show Car Glaze and letting the product sit on the surface so the oils penetrate into the paint you do two things,
1. You moisturize the paint. The oils seep and penetrated INTO the paint and revitalize it making it safer to then abrade.
2. The oils revitalize the pigments and it is this little function that these oils are unique for that restores and brings out the full richness of color.
I've used this technique ever since discovering the unique characteristics about the unique oils used to create this product in the early 1900's and I've been told the formula is unchanged since it was perfected about the time the Model T was introduced which was 1908.
This product has been around as long as single stage paints. There is no other product on the market today that I know of that can make that claim not counting Meguiar's #1, #3. I think #5 came out in the 1950's and it's possible all 4 of these products are still as they were when they were created.
Here's a project that Francisco and I knocked out together, one of these days I'll go through all the pictures and create a write-up worthy of this projects. We did the same #7 treatment to this car and the paint literally looked like it was factory new when we were finished.
1955 DeSoto Firedome - Antique Single Stage Paint Restoration
Here's a few before, process and after shots... I'd like to thank PJ, the owner for trusting us with his car and I'd also like to thank Fransisco for being part of the team and all his hard work to transform this car from an ugly duckling to a car that looks like it just rolled out of the show room from a DeSoto Dealership in 1955!
The only editing I did to any of these pictures is to crop out the fluff and resize to 800 pixels wide.
Before
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting (Automatic Depth), with the flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
After
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting with the Flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
Before
This picture was taking with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the A-DEP setting with the Flash on. Inside the building, this is exactly what the paint looked like at the time of the photo.
After
This picture was taken outside in full sun around 2:00pm on Saturday, May 25th using my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel on the "Full Auto" setting.
This is what the paint looks like in full sun to the naked eye.
Process...
Here's Fransisco machine polishing the paint using Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover on an 6.5" Orange CCS Foam Cutting Pad on the Flex 3401.
Full write-up as soon as I can carve out the time...
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If you really want to learn why to saturate soak antique paint in #7 before working on the paint, I'd recommend reading, not scanning but reading through my article on this topic here. It is the only article of it's type anywhere.
The Secret to Removing Oxidation and Restoring a Show Car Finish to Antique Single Stage Paints
The Secret of Number Seven
There is a way to restore single stage paints that is non-abrasive and as gentle as you can get using a product that’s been around since early paints were formulated. That product is called Meguiar's Mirror Glaze #7 Show Car Glaze.
#7 Sealer Reseal Glaze = Show Car Glaze
Here’s a photo of a few bottles of #7 from my car wax collection. I have some older bottles from before WWII, but this picture shows the transition from when the name changed from Sealer and Reseal Glaze to Show Car Glaze.
(Click here for a larger picture)
Here's the short version...
4 Steps to restore single paint paint - 1972 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE
Here's before...
Here's after...
Note, we only did the hood, not the tops of the fenders, if you look at the pictures above I carefully taped the fenders off.
And one of the pinnacle in my detailing career was when Wayne Carine asked me to restore the original paint on an all original 1953 Hudson Hornet.
I used the #7 saturation treatment to this car as well...
Wayne Carini 1954 Hudson Hornet Original Paint Restored by Mike Phillips
Wayne was very cautious when he first met me... it's not that he didn't trust me it's just he understands that when restoring antique original single stage paint a person really only has one shot at it.
You either get it right the first time or it's game over because you rub through the top coat and expose the primer.
This picture of Wayne watching me rub out the hood by hand is priceless...
And this picture of Wayne giving me the Thumbs-up is even more priceless and look at the clarity and gloss coming off the paint on this all original Hudson...
There's something to the oils in the #7 Show Car Glaze. I don't care if other detailers take cars like these ones, the BMW, the Hudson Hornet and the DeSoto Firedome and hack them all up when "they" are asked to buff one out but as for me? I have a system that's been working since before I was born and it's never failed me... or the people that own the cars I've worked on.
Pinpoint_Precision
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Thanks Mike I learned from the best in business. 
If something works and has been working why change now? I totally agree with you Mike. They told me that they had so called detailers try to come and buff the car years ago and yet they never saw the car turn out this way. Anybody can buff a car but how you go on taking the proper steps in this case, an antique car, is what makes the difference at the end. I will always follow the best and I learn and continue to learn from the best in business, Mike Philips. Thank you once again for the kind words.
If something works and has been working why change now? I totally agree with you Mike. They told me that they had so called detailers try to come and buff the car years ago and yet they never saw the car turn out this way. Anybody can buff a car but how you go on taking the proper steps in this case, an antique car, is what makes the difference at the end. I will always follow the best and I learn and continue to learn from the best in business, Mike Philips. Thank you once again for the kind words.