1953 Buick Roadmaster Revist

With the show season coming up was nice to see a car we had done last season. The full write-up from last year is below followed by my updated detail and photowork. The very end has some photos to showcase the work of a close friend who is an awesome photographer. Those images are just for fun, and have been edited of course. So this is the orginal write up.

Arrived to a clean car, not much a of a surprise. Car was foamed and washed with 2BM. Clayed with Sonus green including the roof which was original paint. To explain the original paint claim this car
was orginally a much different green. The orignal owner had the dealership respay it this color. While its not quite orignal, its pretty close! On to the inspection, some marring, pigtails, and wet sanded areas
not properly polished.


















Got right to work with 4" pads around the whole car. For correction LC CCS White with 3M 06085 was used with a drop of 06068. This step left a pretty clean finish.







Roof was pretty cloudy from oxidation, This was polished out with 3M 06085 on a 7" Megs Cutting Pad. The Pad felt huge after working with the 4" pad all day

Before


During

After



Then It was onto jeweling, which took about 8 hours with the 4" pads.













Finished up with my new favorite choice Race Glaze 42. Not sure why this stuff is not more popular.








Accidentally cool photo of the day...


The car was way too big to get good full shots in the garage, so hopefully I can get some at the show. Wood was protected with Swissvax Woodpolish. Tires not done yet in photos, but were finished up with Swissvax Pneu. Chrome will be done separately before the show when my RG Glass and Chrome shows up. Thanks for looking/reading. Any C&C Welcome


Thank You,
Sean Tompkins

So a new year, a new unit, a new camera, and a better write up. I collected the car and drove it up to our shop in the evening. I got right to work and foamed it, if you look closely
you can see how fast I work



After a 2BM wash I dried the car wiped it down with IPA to be sure there was no LSP left. Paint condition was then inspected. It was still in top shape with much credit to the owner. I managed to correct the little issues with Lime Prime via PC.



I wiped the car down with IPA twice to be sure LP did not fill anything. Under the halogens



Some shots before washing









Car was then taken outside and foamed to remove any dust or residue from crevices.





Then applied pre wax cleanser, and topped with RaceGlaze 42

Lots of Afters, these are all just resized, bordered, and marked. I really had fun finding different angles to shoot this car. It was almost as much fun as the detail.













Back in the unit waiting for the skilled photographer






Shorlty after Alexander of AccessPhoto showed up. Here is some of his work. All photos from here out have been edited.





Regards,

Sean Tompkins and Alexander Demidov