Live Broadcast Video - 1965 Plymouth Valiant - Extreme Makeover

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Live Broadcast Video - 1965 Plymouth Valiant - Extreme Makeover

1965 Plymouth Valiant - Extreme Makeover

Paul's 1965 Plymouth Valiant 100
This is a recent resto-rod with a new paint job but there are still holograms left from a wool pad on a rotary buffer. This is a great candidate for an "Extreme Makeover". It was originally a straight 6 but now it has a warmed-up 318 made to look like the 273 high performance engine that came in a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S. This is only the second paint job this car has ever had and there are only 42,000 original miles.

Here's what the paint looks like in the sun....

Swirl City!
We're going to remove these swirls and create a true show car finish!

Here you can see water spots and swirls inflicted by a rotary buffer...

Holograms inflicted by a rotary buffer...

More holograms in the paint on the hood and everywhere throughout the paint...

This is a cropped out section from the above pictures so you can better see the water spots in the paint along with the holograms...

Holograms and water spots on the trunk lid...

Far shot of the passenger side with the sun reveling the swirls in the vertical panels like the B-Pillar...

Ouch! Kind of hurts your eyes to look at this...

Sun's too low to really show the swirls but you can kind of see them, point being is they're there and we need to remove them...

This half-circle scratches are from machine sanding, they're called pigtails...

As you can see the paint is filled with swirls, scratches, water spots and even pigtails from machine sanding.

Our job... remove the defects and restore a show car finish...

First up will be our Test Spot, that's where we'll dial in a process that removes the defects to take us to 95% or better correction.


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Continued...

First thing we're going to do is a Test Spot. For this we're going to use,

Porter Cable 7424XP DA Polisher

Correction Step: SI 1500 – Super Intensive Polish (PO83) with 5.5" Cyan Hydro-Tech Foam Cutting Pad

Polishing Step: SF 4000 – Super Finish Polish (PO106FA) with 5.5" Tangerine Hydro-Tech Foam Polishing Pad


Here's the results after making 8 Section Passes for the Correction Step and 6 Section Passes for the Polishing Step.

The definition of a pass
There are two definitions of the word pass as it relates to machine polishing with any type of machine.

Single Pass
A single pass is just that. It's when you move the polisher from one side of the section you're buffing to the other side of the section you're buffing. That's a single pass.

Section Pass
A section pass is when you move the polisher back and forth, or front to back with enough single overlapping passes to cover the entire section one time. That's a section pass.

After we dialed-in and proved our process everyone began buffing out the Valaint. More experienced people used the Flex 3401 and Flex PE14 and people new to machine polishing worked with the Porter Cable, Meguiar's and Griot's DA Polishers.

 

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Products used and available at Autogeek.net

Tools
Flex 3401 Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher
Flex PE14 Lightweight, Compact Rotary Buffer
Porter Cable 7424XP Dual Action Polisher
Meguiar's G110v2 Dual Action Polisher
Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital PolisherOptimum Adapter/Extension


Compounds, Polishes & Waxes
SI 1500 – Super Intensive Polish (PO83)
SF 4000 – Super Finish Polish (PO106FA)
Pinnacle Souveran Paste Wax


Buffing Pads
5.5" Cyan Hydro-Tech Foam Cutting Pad
5.5" Tangerine Hydro-Tech Foam Polishing Pad
5.5" Crimson Hydro-Tech Foam Finishing Pad
6.5 inch Hybrid Orange Heavy Cutting Pad
6.5 inch Hybrid White Polishing Pad
6.5 inch Hybrid Black Finishing Pad
Lake Country Hydro-Tech 3 x 1.25 Inch Foam Pads

4.5" Hybrid Pads for the Flex 3401 - * Not available yet


Detailing Clay and Lube
Pinnacle Ultra Poly Clay
Pinnacle Clay Lubricant


Waterless Wash
Detailer's Pro Series Waterless Auto Wash


Microfiber Towels
Super Soft Deluxe Green Microfiber Towels with Rolled Edges, 3 Pack
Chinchilla Microfiber Buffing Cloth, 16 x 16 inches
Misc
Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light
Microfiber Gloves
Diamondite Glass and Surface Cleaner
Kreepstool

 

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I'd like to personally thank everyone that attended last night's Extreme Makeover because it's the team work that takes place on these project cars that really makes the difference.


Thank you!



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[bigbadbp7]

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Awsome photos and a great turn around. Its nice to see such a young kid with patience taking his time and buffing out a car.

 

[Rencor]

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Thanks Max, Mike & AG for the opportunity to work on a really cool car with some really cool people.

Thanks Paul for trusting us with that Comando!

This car came in pretty bad shape but nothing that couldn't be corrected with a little TLC. For many last night, this was their first time working a machine to polish paint. As you can see, todays technology allows the average person without experience to turn out an excellent finished product.

Kudos to all.

 

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Awesome photos

Thank you...

I try to really to take good pictures to really share the event plus the before, process and after pictures for everyone that can't be here but wishes they could...

Takes a little time to sift through all the pictures, pick out the best ones, then rename them, crop them, resize them, upload them and finally insert them.

Most my write-ups have between 70 and 100 pictures...


***Update****


Note the comment I just placed under this picture in the first post of this thread...

 

[feds27]

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Awesome photos.

 

[Bunky]

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Great results. It was a nice to see it all happen. I see Adam and Robert were there chipping in.

The moral of the story is using people with varying skill levels, good tools, and products can create great results.

 

[DARK HORSE]

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Great work everyone! Very nice write up Mike!

 

[Gino Martin]

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I really enjoyed watching it live, Hope you guys do it again!!

 

[t.DRAKE.u]

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I really enjoyed last night learned a lot!! Thanks Mike and everyone that was there! Cant wait for the next car.

 

[BillE]

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WOW, youse guys dun good!

Really impressed with the young man, he really has his head in the game.

Just a fun comment ref the 'youngun'...notice him sitting on the deck, see how his legs and feet are going every which way? Oh to be young and that flexible again...LOL.

Great job to everyone!

Bill

 

[vet]

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Was thinking the same thing about young and flexible...

Great job, thanks for sharing.

 

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***Update***

The live broadcast video has been added to this thread, see the first post of this thread. It's about 3 hours long. This is the first time we've done this for a Thursday Night "Autogeek's Car of the Week" project and there's going to be some rough areas so bare with us as we tweak our techniques, learn from our mistakes and I'm confident we'll do better as we move forward.

The next Thursday Night "Autogeek's Car of the Week" project will likely be May 10th or May 17th so clear your schedule and plan to be here and join in the fun.

I have lots of "Special Interest Cars" all lined up for either a "Show Car Makeover" or an "Extreme Makeover" and for each project car we'll be showcasing different product lines from different companies plus using a variety of different tools.

A big thanks to Max for providing the facilities, tools, products and behind the scenes staff to make these events possible.

Also thank you to Yancy for setting up the hardware and the software to video this project and then editing and uploading the video to our YouTube Channel.


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[Hoytman]

I missed out on the live feed...

...BUT HOLY SMOKES THEY RECORDED IT. WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Big thank to Mike and Yancy for all the hard work, to MAX for allowing it all to take place, and the behing the scenes people that helped as well. TEAM WORK BABY...YEAH!!!!

Thanks a million Max for allowing Mike to post videos like these. They're a great help to many of us. Perfect watching time on a rainy day like today.

One last thing...

Mike I really appreciate you making the effort to put that kid into the spot-light a bit. He'll never forget his pictures being posted on this forum. Hopefully you've lit a spark that will lead him to happiness and prosperity, good health, and the inkling to someday inspire a kid on his own. My hat is off to Mr. Phillips. More kids need opportunities to learn a skill that can take them somewhere. I've love to see you do a class like this once a year with a few youngsters like this.

God Bless!

 

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One last thing...

Mike I really appreciate you making the effort to put that kid into the spot-light a bit. He'll never forget his pictures being posted on this forum. Hopefully you've lit a spark that will lead him to happiness and prosperity, good health, and the inkling to someday inspire a kid on his own.

My hat is off to Mr. Phillips. More kids need opportunities to learn a skill that can take them somewhere. I've love to see you do a class like this once a year with a few youngsters like this.

God Bless!

I like teaching young kids the art of polishing paint. This young man was incredibly polite and a real fast learner. Plus a hard worker. He really paid attention to any instruction he was given by everyone here that night and if you look at any of the pictures of him you can see how intently he's focused on what he's doing.


I hope to see him back in the future....



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Awesome photos and a great turn around. Its nice to see such a young kid with patience taking his time and buffing out a car.

I'd like to have more young men and even young ladies, interested cars attend our clinics. I wish someone could have started me out on proper technique etc. when I first started out.

Thanks Max, Mike & AG for the opportunity to work on a really cool car with some really cool people.

Thanks Paul for trusting us with that Comando!

This car came in pretty bad shape but nothing that couldn't be corrected with a little TLC. For many last night, this was their first time working a machine to polish paint. As you can see, todays technology allows the average person without experience to turn out an excellent finished product.

Kudos to all.

Thanks for joining us Rene and thank you for helping others by watching them buff and then tweaking their technique to flatten out the learning curve.

Great results. It was a nice to see it all happen. I see Adam and Robert were there chipping in.

The moral of the story is using people with varying skill levels, good tools, and products can create great results.

And have some fun in the process as well as make some new friends...

Great work everyone! Very nice write up Mike!

Thanks Tad. I didn't have time to add any captions to the pictures last Friday but I'll try to get to it later today after I finish a hot offline project.

I really enjoyed watching it live, Hope you guys do it again!!

I thought there would have been more replies to this thread after we added the video as a sign there's interest in this type of thing. Squeaking wheel gets the grease and all that...

I really enjoyed last night learned a lot!! Thanks Mike and everyone that was there! Cant wait for the next car.

I'm going to schedule two cars for May 10th, so I'm going to need a good team of people ready to get serious...

Just a fun comment ref the 'youngun'...notice him sitting on the deck, see how his legs and feet are going every which way? Oh to be young and that flexible again...LOL.

10-4 on that...

Great job to everyone!

Bill

We really had a great team of guys for this project...

Great job, thanks for sharing.

Thank you sir! Max is the man behind the scenes giving all of this his stamp of approval plus the resources to make it happen.

If our forum members want to see more of these projects broadcast live and also video taped and than shared on the forum you should make your voices heard. Simple enough.

If you're a lurker and you liked watching this video... then join the forum and reply to this thread and let us know... this type of live feed project followed up by posting the video requires resources. If it's seen by management as being well received there will be more. No feedback means no interest and there won't be any more... so if you liked watching this project live or the video then take a moment to click your mouse and let us know. It's really that simple. It's easier to post a comment to this thread than it is to be here and actually do all the work required to go from a swirled-out mess to a show car finish.


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