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richy
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This project is being undertaken by the same gentleman for whom I compounded, polished and coated his wooden speedboat. He has done a frame off restoration on this 1961 Morris (Austin) Mini Traveller. For those of you who are not familiar with the Austin Mini, it is the car after which the current Mini (now owned by BMW) is fashioned. The Morris Mini was an upscale Austin Mini...who claims badge engineering to be anything new?? The original ones were a heck of a lot smaller however. Furthermore, the Traveller model has wood on the side. He varnished the wood and I showed him how to compound and polish it and he will be coating the wood himself using CQuartz.
The shell of the car had been painted and we waited about 5 weeks just to be safe before I started to play with it. It was a simple enough job: compound, polish and coat. There was ample CQuartz remaining from the wooden boat for me to coat the car. It was already scratched a bit from being wiped down dry with just a towel. There was also a few chips on the RF fender where a wrench had slipped. The defects are pictured below:
Here it is before:
Before starting to do any correction work, the shell was first cleaned using ONR. First up was the hood, that is the above picture. The testing of it revealed my combo of TB black wool + Amerirocks + 3401 did wonders as an initial stage and was followed by CP Essence + Americoat black foam pad + 3401 for the finishing polish. Here is what those results looked like:
Here is the LF fender after the a/m 2 steps:
The front clip was done mostly by hand using a mf and the a/m 2 products:
Here is the hood after a double coat of CQuartz (original):
Here is the rest of the car all double coated. I will photograph it later when it's all together to show how the finished product turned out, but for now, here's how it was left:
Previously scratched surface:
Roof:
I also coated the wheel wells:
The shell of the car had been painted and we waited about 5 weeks just to be safe before I started to play with it. It was a simple enough job: compound, polish and coat. There was ample CQuartz remaining from the wooden boat for me to coat the car. It was already scratched a bit from being wiped down dry with just a towel. There was also a few chips on the RF fender where a wrench had slipped. The defects are pictured below:
Here it is before:
Before starting to do any correction work, the shell was first cleaned using ONR. First up was the hood, that is the above picture. The testing of it revealed my combo of TB black wool + Amerirocks + 3401 did wonders as an initial stage and was followed by CP Essence + Americoat black foam pad + 3401 for the finishing polish. Here is what those results looked like:
Here is the LF fender after the a/m 2 steps:
The front clip was done mostly by hand using a mf and the a/m 2 products:
Here is the hood after a double coat of CQuartz (original):
Here is the rest of the car all double coated. I will photograph it later when it's all together to show how the finished product turned out, but for now, here's how it was left:
Previously scratched surface:
Roof:
I also coated the wheel wells:
