This is a detail of a 1958 Kharmin Ghia that I did recently. The theme of this detail is "Expect The Unexpected". When I initially received the call from the client and saw pics of the car I thought this would be a fun detail to do. Although the car was small and black it did have a lot of small curves and angles that could be a pain when polishing. All and all this was the most difficult car I have ever worked on.

Upon arrival I met with the client and went over the car with him as he pulled the car out of the garage. I was completely shocked at what I saw. The car was black and looked like someone has washed it with a brillo pad. Swirls were everywhere and I knew I had my work cut out for me. After foaming, washing, and claying, I had a chance to break out my PTG to see how much paint I had to work with. The client said the car had been restored so I wanted to be extra careful and be sure I had plenty of clear to work with. I was shocked at the readings. I was getting 16 mils to 24 mils across the car !!!! I even calibrated by PTG twice to make sure.

I brought this to the client's attention and he stated that "yes they used a special German clear that is supposed to be scratch resistant". After hearing this I knew the day was going to be difficult. I threw everything I had at this car and was still able to remove about 90% of the swirls. Even with using 105 and PFW I was still getting serious holograms. Thankfully Ultra Fina on a 3M pad cleared them up.

Process: 8.5 hours (Exterior Only)

Foam with CG CWG and NXT in Foam Gun
Wash with 2 BM
Clay with Meguiars Clay
Tires Cleaned with Eagle One Tire and Rubber Cleaner
Polish via Makita and Purple Foamed Wool and 105
Poilsh via Makita and Menzernza SIP via Sonus SFX White Pad
Polish via Makita with 3M black waffle weave and 3M Ultra Fina
Interior wiped down and vac'd (Client requested exterior only)
LSP=Zaino Z2 ZFC'd x2
Engine wiped down and dressed with Sonus Total Eclipse and CD2
Glass cleaned with Zep Glass Cleaner
All metal work polished with Meguiars Hot Rims Chrome Polish
Tires dressed with Meguiars Hot Shine Tire Spray

 

 

Sharpe looking car. My Dad drove the same type car while were loving in Germany, many years back.

 

It looks fantastic. Job well done!!!



John

 

Looks great I've always thought these were beautiful cars, just really slow!

 

Pat, that car is gorgeous, excellent job as always.

Nice to see something different as well.

Well done, looks stunning.

Josh

 

that is one great looking car!!

 

Awesome turnaround Pat, although 8.5 hours seems lightning fast for that many polishing steps. Man I wish I could get stuff done that quick, my hurts bad this morning from 20 hours spent polishing a hammered 335 cab.

 

Sweet ghia! Great job

 

very nice work nice car too !

 

Cars looks fantastic! Well done