48 Hours On This 48 Year Old Triumph Stag!

Hello and welcome back to the world of cashiers, in today's video we will detail a

triumph

ant deer from 1972. This car belongs to a neighbor around the corner and I saw it about a month ago while driving. I think it's only for about two months I had some work done on the engine and they did some restoration work on it so now we're just going to take a look at the hood and trunk lid, it looks like someone probably did some paint in the past that didn't Surprise, we've been a 48

year

old car and, but it looks like they also had to try to remove some swirls or something, it looks like someone had to use a machine at some point, so we're trying to sort it out.

Until today, so I'm not going to talk too much about the fun, we would start with the details, but first of all, I want to quickly thank the detail of the swings. He sent me some gifts to help with

this

detail, so there are certainly some products. Note that I've never used these before and I'll quickly show you what they are and then everything else that I'll be using today are things that I already have in the garage, but you can also get them from Slim, like getting up early. use the non glass dildos use 3m enamels McGuire's everything is available from then on guys we'll take a quick look at what you've sent us and then we'll get on with the details so in

this

little goody bag later I sent us a couple of Coach Cammie products.

I had never used a Coach camera before and heard a lot of good things about the Greenstar. I've already mixed it in a mere like 32:1 pump sprayer, so it seems. pretty cheap, you have the GSF snow foam, soft snow foam, that stays here 20 mil in 1 liter so it's ridiculously cheap so I've mixed it with the product here it's got 500 mil with 10 mil foam for snow there. I'll see, I think it comes out, but anyway it will be a gentle wash today with that proportion of Ellucian dye of 20 million to 1 liter, in my case I have done 10 thousand in 500 milliliters, which is like a hundred applications of this one liter container . and I find that on most average family cars you only need 500k anyway, so yeah, 10m to 500k.

I saw a one liter bar, not sure the price plus 100 applications of that, that's just mental. I know let's keep looking at what else we can do. They've been shipped and we also have what this Coach Cami Reactive Wheel Cleaner is, so we'll give that a try. I've seen them used and it slims down on opening day, which I'll put a link to here more or less towards the end of Last

year

, we had a new training center in Coventry, so yes, there's a video about resetting the car professional that he never used again. I've used other pro car products, I see quartz and stuff, but I never use the reset shampoo.

I'll be trying that Car Pro Essence, a versatile extreme shine boosting hybrid energy, so we'll try that probably at the end of the polishing

stag

e tomorrow, but I've got this car for two or three days and also Car Pro Metallic. they will more or less be used in the chrome work, although they look in pretty good condition, so yeah, big thanks to Slim's for supplying those products to try out today, I mean everything else I'm going to use today. I want to try and use everything. You can get it at Slim's, they have a wide range of products, says autos, a 48 year old auto, so we're going to go with this kind of slow but steady detail, starting with the least aggressive of each

stag

e, so just a mild shampoo or mild snow foam wheel cleaners and all that, so I've got it for a couple of days, so we'll get it back in the garage at some point and spend a couple of days polishing it before I forget the readings of Paint is everywhere.

I'll probably talk more about this in a later video, but you're looking at over 300 microns on the hood and decklid and then on the lower parts of the front fenders. to like 50 microns 60 microns when I did an inspection about a week ago so yeah if you enjoyed this video but make sure it's my starter light bar and if you're not already subscribed consider subscribing and let's move on so now It's all set up and ready to go, first let's give the car a quick rinse and the enthusiasts among you will have noticed that I have the white 40 degree nozzle in there instead of the green 25 degree nozzle.

Being an older car, I just want to be a little gentle with the paint, give the wheels a quick clean with Coach Academy Reactive Wheel Cleaner and also tie them with a green Coach Chemi star in a thirty to one mix, the wheels are nice. It's a touchless wash here, they're not that dirty, it's just to get the iron particles out of there and the rims. I'm just trying to remove as much of the silicone bandage that was already there. Here I'm just trying a much stronger degreaser to try to remove a little bit more silicone and it's absolutely Kate there so yeah I think I listen to each tire so three or four times two of the wheels and the tires are clean and then move on to this snow foam.

Stage, so here we have ten thousand in 500 thousand of water. It's a pretty weak solution. Again, it's the soft snow foam of a Kelly coach and it doesn't come out as thick as I thought it might come out, as I probably expected. Follow the instructions, we'll press it again in a moment just to see for my benefit what the usual ten to one mix is ​​like, that is 50 mil in 500 mil of water. I talk too much about this video today, so yeah. I'm going to sit back for a bit and relax, check this out and I'll get back to you shortly, so as the film of snow dissipated, I went over all the grills, the lights, the door handles and everything went back to the green star lights.

Koch cami. to a thirty to one mix and Maguire's detail and brush, plus getting all the intricate areas where washing I usually wouldn't get to MCO, just going around again, it's a very gentle solution that won't cause staining or anything like that. style and the Khartoum affair. It's pretty clean anyway, remember the cars that come for a Polish, focusing mainly on the bonnet on the boot lid, he was always going to prepare the car first before he could go ahead and do those stages. Now it's all the cars from Washington Princeton that we need to get. get rid of all the tar so there's a lot of tar around the usual areas behind the wheel wells bring a bumper and as you can see here there's a lot of tar and robots in the exhaust pipes so we come back Do it by trying to be nice first. of all it came off with some tar remover this is auto smarts TARDIS spray it all over and let it soak for a minute or two then try removing it with a standard microfiber towel after a few applications and with the towel microfiber. soaked still didn't get rid of everything so I went ahead and got the tar malaise from dodo juice.

Now this product you can just rub it on large areas like this and it's perfect for things like this and again we tried to remove it with the microfiber first of all and again that removed a little bit more and then the really stubborn final bits we got rid of that with a some really fine 4-0 wire wool, okay, start the car, all Washington decontaminated everything. Now I have the car in the garage which was a better challenge, never driven a car with a choke before and got a proper heavy clutch pedal. I've driven cars without power steering in the sport before, yeah, I didn't get startled with a choke and all that, just so you got the car. in the garage, just a quick walk because I did the decontamination and everything I did, some initial paint readers a few weeks ago, so now I have it under some lights in the garage.

Yes, I'll quickly go over all the paint. and I show you some parts, there's a lot of stone and basically there's a lot of stone chips in the car, so if we take a look, I mean, you can't really complain, you know, something that's 48 years old, that's the general condition of the car. paint is very swirly but it also looks like someone has tried to try it or it looks very very rough and we don't know what's going on and this is basically the main reason why cars go for bonnie and i also know what you see on boot too , so that's the main reason why it's there and there was also a place like here if you can see that, I think it's like in the pain that hasn't gone away, it must be a different area, but there are marks like it's on the paint and it's not like tar or anything like that, it's like this defect is what I think the hood is something that has been touched up in the past so it's a little dark on this side because I'm not going to like something here, yeah, like let's say it's inside, I'll do some paint thickness readings and stuff and give it another dusting, it's pixels and Dawson took it to the garage and yeah, it looks like there are some defects within the paint itself and not we are chasing perfection.

Here we are basically trying to make an almost 50 year old car better than the current one and I think you will agree even if I focus on this and the same on the boo. I think that will make it instantly visible. instantly better, so when I look at the camera, I see, yes, they said we are not chasing perfection in this car and again I repeat myself, but at the bottom there are a lot of chips, the things you can't expect in a car like this is about this age and yeah, so I'll take the dog for a quick walk and then we'll come back, clean it up, do some paint readings all over it and hopefully today we can fix the hood at least and probably the boot and then tomorrow we can refine them and then do the sides of the car, there's no roof to do of course, and the bumpers are pretty much just chrome, so they look pretty neat, so yeah, nice, the dog assembly, so all that when The use it's available at Slim's so I have these valid professional pads developed on their own and I think it was just before or after Christmas they shipped like three boxes so we'll start with the light medium cut part that I have.

I also have a Pro Microfiber here to remove any polish residue. I'm going to try the Car Pro essence first. Honestly, I don't think I'm really going to touch it and I may end up using 3m advanced compound or even purple. I might give dad a chance, it's actually a fight. I can jump into this first so I'm pretty sure no touching it or any scratches will be the safe method this is how you're supposed to do it don't assume we. I'll get right to the gist first, it has a cut rating of 2 and 2 out of 10, that's the scale on this and a gloss of 10.

I don't think it's going to work, but we don't know if we could buy a smooth paint. roller, you know, we'll go with the medium light part that doesn't do anything, so I'll probably stick with the medium light capsule still, but with the advanced compound, so yeah, let's say we try this combo first, there we'll spin well. and then let's take a quick look at what it says here a directional shape 12. Did you stop using the MF cutting pad and print well for maximum gloss or blah blah in moderation copper cross post reading cross section from Lee, low speed polishing or medium speed cleaning and move on to the next section, so I don't know, it says if you want to use a thick coat, use a microfiber pad, so maybe let's take a look, let's try it, just We go in and say stop doing it, then look at it.

It's hard to shine here on that side, a little bit deeper pop of color than there is a before, a little bit of mess, this size improved still very, very slowly, but yeah, I removed all this haze on whatever I like, jazz is on that side, so yeah, we'll do it. Try advanced compound from below. I'll try it next and see how it works with the light medium putt, so this is much better after the heavy mullet Pro compound and a map changes part. Normally I would use a rope trick for this type of work, yeah I'm just being a little mindful.

I said it had a paint job, obviously, at least, more and it's an old car, plus scrubbing the dog park, yeah, and the areas that haven't been repainted, I like it. I think it's just the boo hood and it was probably the original paintwork from 4850 Herald. Yes, I'll try it a little. My father really wants to work there. I can avoid it and excuse Geoffrey the dog, so yeah. I've been trying to stick with the DA so we'll change the part, take off the advanced compound and then if that doesn't work we'll change the polish too, okay this is the third try so yeah some swirls like this. you would go here just look at that thing.

Can I go a little further without that? I pretty much see our mother, so we're not chasing perfection, it's all about expectations and being realistic, so go down to the deep end, so I think realistically. A 48-year-old car cannot complain without fear. I have to do the rest of the paint too and I'm talking 50 microns on the rest, so there's no point in making this perfect and then this wing not so much. perfect, as you saw before, who is getting a reading of 300 400 microns on thebody here, but then the top of the wing was getting like 112 120.

I think it was like that. I'll do the readings again before polishing off your huge side-to-side difference. -side of the cores, so the last thing I say is that we can't chase perfection, you also have to take into account the surrounding paint, but yes, that is an improvement, yes, I think you will agree that it is kind of it gets better there, so we're just I'd like to say I'm going to remove the tape, get rid of these dividing sections, just take these wing edges here and because they sit a little bit higher than the hood, the putt catches the inside of the wing. so put a line of duct tape inside the wings remove the tape from the middle and I don't really want to leave like a noticeable bridge on a line where you've had a little bit of tape that can't happen and yeah, we'll break the hood and see how it goes. go.

Oh play some music and what happened through this here, so I know I said no, you know we're not here to chase perfection just to make it much better, but if we look at that, this is just a blast. medium pad and then look at the hood again. I think the hood could use another try and I have a valid Pro Mark five on the side so maybe I'll try, as you know, a couple of passes, not a full set, see how again. That doesn't take away too much pain, yes it's definitely some work on the phonetics that has come up, it's easy as you like, on the top of the wing and then on the hood, yes it has improved but still not amazing, so yeah, I'll give it another hit.

I can still get rid of some of these swirls again so I've already done half of the live start and it's actually original paint, we're not a repaint. I think it's this part here. I think it's the part that was repainted and I was thinking I know, I said I don't want to change, you chose perfection on the front before. I don't know where the polisher is. No, I was using the orange. By the way, it doesn't have a clear coat. So you're getting some color and I was using the Ballot Pro orange medium heavy pad, but on the Shine Master rotary there, the little spot palette is a Chemical Guys hex logic and that was giving a little more core , so I have tried orange hexadecimal logic again, it has our inge no play solution, don't worry.

I was trying our injection logic on the boot placed with the advanced compound and it didn't get to where I wanted it to be, so I went with the yellow logic. 3 and the polish still isn't where I want it to be, so I ended up changing it because it's missing. I don't want to go into rotary normally on board. I always use the rotor for this type of work, but I just didn't do it. I want Sony and I'm going to switch to the 3m green on a 3m green part and we'll just take a quick look because the ladies are already done with dinner so I'm sighing oh yeah so ignore the trail that it obviously needs. finishing this is half after like I said of all the other combos I've tried and then the 3m green putt and the 3m green putt and it would go this way you can see the difference so the zoom is the before and come back here. and then, yes, I'll give the hood at least one hit with the same combo.

I'm going to take a break now, I'll get something to eat. I might go out again for an hour to buy a package tonight and then it's on to tomorrow, so yeah, let's go on again, so that's it, so it's the end of the first day. It's now over 20 days and I've been out of this since about 9 o'clock. I see the live in

hours

, just yes, washing myself. decon a little break for lunch and dinner, so yeah, it's one of those cars that if you're new to the details, you'll get it out here. Many professionals tell you that they don't guarantee all the panels are the same because they are It depends on whether the cars are new from the factory or if it is another full repaint, then yes, all the panels should be the same, there may still not be some panels.

Marv, strange filler, there are other things, but something when you get to this 48 year old car, like I said before. I'm getting color transfer on all of our pads, as expected, but I put a new pad on for the driver's side spoiler side and gave the upright piece a special touch, not a single color transfer better, just like than the clear coat they come on. on this side and that blue pod is now a mustard shade and yeah, it just shows you that every panel on a car can be totally different anyway, so that's the end of the first day and just enjoying this so far will probably be Quite a long video, so sorry if you've made it this far, you might as well keep watching.

Yes, if you're enjoying it, make sure to hit the like button and yes, we'll continue this tomorrow. Please don't come alone. You're not sober yeah now you know one morning it's the second day and then it's 8:30 so today I'm hoping to try to finish the polish before lunch time so I can drag it back out or actually part of the wax inside, but They can take it back outside and deal with the shiny work wheels and yeah, try to get the sun up, you know, late afternoon, early evening, ideally 6:00 o'clock, that gives us Why does it give us approximately 10

hours

, and yes. we're going to die, oh, and I just have to polish the two doors and the rear quarters, whatever those panels are called, wings, they're already done, they were done yesterday and then there's a little bit of paint work on both bumpers, there's not much paint on them.

We'll do it by hand, yeah, let's get on with this, that's the car, all polished and corrected as much as possible, so we'll finish it off with the professional essence of the car again kindly sent by the guys. That's detailed as I go on to say that everything I'm using today, part of the Mack Shine Joe action polisher, is available at Slim's, which details the Maguire's do 220 I've been using. There is an updated version of grades 3 to 20 again available in Slim. everything is available through them guys mc1 repainted with car pro essence probably on a 3m blue finish deck because i have that piece in various sizes sock and wack the big part on the g2 large flat panels $20 and the smallest spot pad on the mats in a and they slap all the side panels because it actually seemed a lot smaller so yeah and it will go dark as soon as I just got it so yeah we'll go ahead with that and then it's just going to be down, we're going to give it a coat of wax it and drag it outside, so let's get on with this stuff guys, very windy, so it's already lunch time.

I didn't realize what time it was, so I'm going to stop in a moment and yeah, have a sandwich or something. The car is all polished and refined with the essence of the carpet I also want to finish it with dodo juice, either hard candy or supernatural. I'm still not on which side and I like using hard candy at the moment so I may go with that. Look, it'll stop a little bit in the middle and then they'll put a little bit of wax on it and then I think at that stage we drag it in unfinished like a bridal job and all that jazz, so that's the end of the like detail and then like I said it's a 48 year old pain and it's sitting up, it looks much better now the owner is very happy there was a good turnout but again many thanks to Slim details for the supplies, some other products we have used today, everything else, like views, are things. which I already have in the garage but it's also available at Slim's, so I'll put a link to their website in the description below, so if you need any of the products I used today, just anything in general, be sure to check out Slim's details and yes they have a wide selection of absolutely everything you'll need to get the job done basically as always if you enjoy this video make sure to hit the like button and if you're not subscribed to the channel now, please subscribe constantly and also visit us on Instagram in detail and the world officials in which I am there are set randomly and yes, that's it and see you in the next video.