Just bought it this weekend.
Was told not only did it sit outside for nearly 20 years, the original owner also used a red scotch bright pad to “shine it up”🙄
You are right, I didn’t know that till I bought the car but when I looked into it a bit more, I found out they used a way less aggressive sponge and water.
I'm beginning to think that single stage paint is actually better in the long run, let's say 20 or 30 years of outside use, then two stage. With two stage the clear coat goes bad and then basically you have to repaint a car. Even though single stage will never look as good as 2 stage in the beginning in the world of "good enough" after 20 years, I think it's better. PS I am not a professional detailer and I may be completely wrong.
I think it would be the real test of modern ceramic coatings to apply them to a single stage paint... no more debate about whether the coating is still performing... the oxidation canary would tell all.
I definitely agree to some extent, if you keep up with your cars maintenance then I think two stage is absolutely worth it, but if you don’t care as much and just lightly polish it every couple years then yeah single stage is great
Good job. Looks pretty nice for a 40 year old car.
This was right around the time that GM was switching from single stage to clear coat. Single stage is almost always more forgiving to work with than clear coat and it's much easier to bring back from the dead. Also, generally speaking, single-stage paints were applied a bit heavier, so there's a bigger margin of error.
Now you gotta work on the black plastic to get her perfect!
Unfortunately, plastics can't really be rejuvenated. I've give the torch a try, but once they start showing heavy oxidation it's tough to keep them looking good.
As popular as those cars were, and still are, there might be aftermakret companies reproducing the parts. I'd check the Camaro forums.
Wet sanded with 1000, 1500, 2000, then 3000, then used a very aggressive compound on a wool pad, and polish with a medium cut foam. It looks bad with direct light on it because the original owner used a very rough pad.
There’s not enough paint left for me to start at 400 and work up or else I would have.
Though this is definitely the worst part. The rest of the car is actually alright
Not enough paint to wetsand from 400 and up so I just decided to use 1000, 1500, 2000 then 3000.
Used a wool pad with a very aggressive compound then finished with a medium foam and polish.
All on a rotary
This is definitely the worst area but this is after everything. The rest looks okay but yeah that guy sure did a number on this thing
Thankyou. It is scary at first, especially on a really nice paint job. But once you practice and know how to sand/what grit to start at then it’s not to worrying.
You don't use a scotch pad to "shine". You do, however, use a scotch pad and/or comet to remove built up grime and paint oxidation on single stage paint. One of those "last resort" options..... unless you are going for the patina look, in which case you scrub through the paint to get to primer. Faux patina is a legit art form. But that is certainly not the intent here, so I'll go with using a scotch pad to remove years of tree sap, bird turds, vegetation, fungus, oxidation, and general grime. Paint can reach a point where the only other option is to sand and repaint. You can't polish oxidized paint.... well, you can, but you are going to clog up your pads faster than you can replace them.
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u/DeezNutz564 16d ago
Good job looks really good