The key to achieving a genuine, glass-smooth paint finish

Photography by Tim Suddard

Before our Bugeye Sprite leaves the paint booth, it is first baked–twice in this case–and then, after a day or two, wet sanding can begin.

This too is laborious. Javier of Jeff’s Restorations first used 1000-grit paper before moving to 1500-, 2000- and then finally 3000-grit paper.

It’s a lot of labor but gives the paint that glass-smooth finish.

Then he could buff and wax the paint.

Javier used 3M Perfect-It three-part buffing compounds–coarse to smooth–and then finished off the job with Meguiar’s Ultimate Liquid wax.

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mr2s2000elise UberDork
1/17/23 11:25 a.m.

gorgeous color. Like the China Blue G

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