Resurrection of the Red Turd, Bob's '86 SVO Mustang

[HillbillySailor2]

That picture brings several (unrelated) thoughts:
1) I still think if you got a bigger dog, you'd have fewer car parts missing.
2) although, you don't need much of a dog to protect a Buick.
3) sometimes people need to give a few more instructions... when they said get a mean, black dog, they meant get a BIG mean black dog to protect the ranch.

Get near that damn car, and he turns into this!!!

[Russell]

I think that hood will buff out I. Had a ranger that was that color. The stuff I used was chroma (sp?)

[JOES66FURY]

Get near that damn car, and he turns into this!!!

He turns into El Chupacabra? that's just nuts!

[Bob Holmes]

Yep, that's a very rare mini, mini rottweiler. Crossed with the special chupacabra chihuahua bred by the Incans. Cross that dog at your own peril...LOL

Yep, I'm going to hit the paint with that cleaner this weekend. My son is going to come over and move it out of the boneyard to a place where it can be worked on.

[HillbillySailor2]

Yep, that's a very rare mini, mini rottweiler. Crossed with the special chupacabra chihuahua bred by the Incans. Cross that dog at your own peril...LOL

Yep, I'm going to hit the paint with that cleaner this weekend. My son is going to come over and move it out of the boneyard to a place where it can be worked on.

I think the stuff Russel is referring to is called Chroma Ultra polish by Presta. I've never used that, but I have used the Nu Finish. The paint I had on an old LTD wagon was almost as bad as on your Mustang. Took two polishings to do it, but it restored it. I'm guessing the Ultra polish does the same thing Nu Finish does, but I've only seen it for sale in a couple of places.

[BBR]

NuFinish did absolutely nothing for the paint on my car.

and here's my guard dog with all her jacked up teeth.

[HillbillySailor2]

NuFinish did absolutely nothing for the paint on my car.

and here's my guard dog with all her jacked up teeth.

Hmm, I wonder if they changed the product, but not the name...because it was about 15 years ago when I had the LTD wagon. It worked great then. How old was your car? Did it have the enamal paint, or the newer basecoat/clearcoat finish? Mine had the enamal paint.

[JOES66FURY]

Nu Finish really only works to restore the shine on older paints, not so much on the base clear stuff...The Mothers California Pre Cleaner and Carnuba does amazing things..I took my cousins Camaro with nasty faded blue paint and turned it into a really nice car over the period of 8 hours of constant buffing and polishing....She was blown away..and payed me 100 bucks because she was going to get it painted...I talked her out of it...It did not need it..It jsut wanted some TLC...

[Bob Holmes]

This is a single stage paint. I bought two bottles of NuFinsh, now I got to talk the boys into applying it...Yeah right!! Big goal this weekend is to get the car moved to in front of the workshop. I'll play with the NuFinish on the hatch. I can probably talk them into at least that.

I'll take pics, so no bellyaching!!! Geez.

[HillbillySailor2]

I'll take pics, so no bellyaching!!! Geez.

Yes, we are an impatient bunch, aren't we?

[Beagle]

Gawd, it's morning already, so where are my pics? Huh? Huh? Huh?

NuFinish is cake compared to compound and polish. I don't think you'll get really sore from it. Compound on the other hand... I'm not sure I'll ever try that again. I'd rather use comet. Good luck getting the kids into it. Sometimes they just want to help, maybe you'll get lucky.

[JOES66FURY]

[Bob Holmes]

You guys are killing me. Spent the morning over at my buddy's shop getting the cabinet blaster working again. I need it to restore/repaint a bunch of the parts. Just loaded it with fine "black beauty." I've heard the stuff is pretty good, I'll find out shortly. Also showed off the racecar to a new racing friend that is contemplating the same racing class. He's just stepping up from HPDE stuff to a serious build.

Boys haven't shown up yet. Damn!!

[Bob Holmes]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!

In a series of unscientific but nonetheless noteworthy experiments, Bob Holmes has determined that the paint on the red turd CAN be saved.

Film at 11:00...

[HillbillySailor2]

Film at 11:00...

Uhh....it's 11:06.....