Testing...Testing---TR6

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Haven't posted here for some time.

Been kind of busy with bunch of cars.

However---I thought this TR6 would be worthy of taking time to post.

The car hasn't been cleaned nor on the road for 34 years.

The paint was dry, has deep imbedded dirt and mold spots and heavily oxidized. At some point someone tried to clean it without any success.

Did some testing today. (Will be doing this correction in couple of weeks).

1. Waterless wash
2. Clayed
3. White terry cloth towel
4. Meguiar's #7

I was going to try some Blackfire paint cleaner and HD Speed but I was so blown out with the results of using #7 decided this will be the way to go.

Will do light polishing with either Blackfire polish or HD speed once the paint is fatten up with several applications of #7 and cleaned.

Pictures:
 
As you can see...

Top part of hood before the wash.

Lower left side hood---washed and clayed. Hood was still dirty with embedded dirt.

Lower ride side of hood---First round of Meguiar's #7
 
That is one bad-ass car, depending on the year. Classic British sports car engineering, IRS, stout engine (for its day), great handling, real wood trim dash and great lines.
 
Beautiful save and please show after pics. As always great work!
 
Will be working on this in about 2 weeks or so.

I asked the shop to pull the front, rear bumpers and the luggage rack.

Can't wait to get this one done!

Tom
 
This is awesome! Full of win right here! Looking forward to future posts with this vehicle!
 
Awesome picture of the hood! Great work and looking forward to the follow up.
 
That worked ok:)

That is a candidate for the best 60/20/20 photo.

Awesome documentation through photos. I can’t wait to see it after the polish and LSP!


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I'm back...

Just started this last Thursday on the 26th.

1. Removed all the parts that were in car.
2. Vacuumed everything---under hood, interior, trunk and outside on the body.
3. Performed waterless wash everywhere.
4. Used all purpose cleaner under the hood to cut the grease.
5. Skipped the clay bar process---saved a ton of time by bypassing the clay bar step.
6. Got right to the Meguiar's #7 with white terry cloth towel.

The first step took the most time. After removing most of the embedded dirt---gave it another round of Meguiar's # 7.

On the 2nd day---did a another round of Meguiar's #7. This went much faster and the paint came out a bit cleaner. (I forgot to take pictures). Will take some after a couple of days and applications of Meguiar's.

I plan to to this 7 times over course of seven days. I've completed 2 days and have 5 more days to go.

On to pictures.

Enjoy!

Tom
 
Just realized I don't have a picture of the full car after cleaning. It's all white now!

Will get those when I go back for the third step on Wednesday....

Later,

Tom
 
They are only original once, thanks for saving it. Love those 60's and 70 British roadsters.
 
Wow, off the road since '84...back in the day when you could still see a TR-6, TR-7, Spitfire, Stag, MGA, MGB, 124 Spyder, etc. on the road.
 
Tom - Tremendous work!

Thank you for sharing this. At the repair shop I work at I run into older BMWs (most often track cars, but some street cars) with stained single stage paint where I’ve wondered how you go about saving it. Now I see there can be hope!
 
Cool car, top notch save!


I thought your work was too good for there to only be "attachments" in the thread. The only way to see the full size picture is to click on the pictures. So I took the liberty to download your pics and then upload them to your free gallery here on AGO.


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:)
 
Great job on a very cool little roadster! I always liked the 6.
 
Thank you Mike for doing that. Appreciate that very much.

Maybe there is a way round for me to do better photos through AGO gallery. Will check into that.

Again...Thanks so much.

Your sharing of knowledge regarding single stage paint created these types of results!! Thanks so much for that.

Tom
 
dumb question time for me. What advantage does water less wash have on something that dirty and rough?
I understand the concept for show cars and such where you don't want to introduce water but why on the TR6?
It seems to me that even a good wash with soap and water and a low flow nozzle would save you some time rubbing,,I never see cars this dirty (or rarely do) so was curious about the waterless wash
 
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