Leave it alone, Patina is good!!! It will never look good shiney without a full paint job , dollars adds up quick , Last time , Don't buff , scotch bright it ,,,,Sam
some paint just doesn't buff. found that out on my last car. I say give it a shot though, because you never know until you try. laundry soap and a scrub brush? kerosene? ignore that nonsense. get something made for paint. start with minimal abrasive type polish and see what happens. might need to start with something more co****. the 34 year old paint on my driver was all dull like that. just a nice wash made it a bunch better, then I did it with Mirror glaze polish and it prettied it up real nice.
I had a 1963 Dodge Custom 880 several years ago, that had been stored under a huge huckleberry bush for nearly ten years. The white paint looked black from where and how it was parked. Here's how I fixed that... Took it to a car wash and washed the loose **** off, as well as much of the caked-on residue. Car looked decent enough, but that was not good enough. Next, I drove it home, took a bucket of soapy warm water, a sponge, and powdered Ajax, and went to town on the painted surfaces. The car looked like a diamond in the night after that. Dry the car good. Compound and wax from there. After a day's worth of time, the finish on that Dodge looked pretty damn good for the original paint, and being 30+ years old!
hey sixbangr, what ever makes you happy . Your **** ain't fine , if your **** don't shine. nice score bro.
I bet it will clean up nice My 53 chevy sat in a barn in Kentucky from 1982 until 1997 when i got my hands on it. 90% of the paint that is on the car now, is original paint. I buffed and polished it back up as best i could, it has the typical rash of 50 some odd years, All i did was paint the top the ivory white of that years colors , due to the fact the top of the car was the worse of it all. Its not perfect, but its good enough for me
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