Classic Car cleaning

[Petewete]

A few quick questions - mainly for our detailing mad Clive lol

These may be stupid, but keep with me lol.....:confused::confused:
My dad went on a classic car hunt in England last week and arrived home with a 1974 Rover P6. He has his first car show on Monday and has asked me to give the car a good clean for him - As his new baby replaces me as the baby in the family, he is very keen to have her looking well. I use Autoglym on my DS3, I have used collinite wax a few times and I also bought a clay bar a few weeks back but haven't experimented yet lol.

The paintwork seems to be in very good condition, but giving the age of the car, would a clay bar be too harsh on the paint?
There is plenty of chrome on her as well, most of which is 'swirly' - is there anything that can be done to bring a smoother finish/shine back to this?

Cheers!

[CliveP]

Hi Pete,

Autoglym SRP will be fine.

Claybar should be fine too, a nice mild one and gently does it (I'm assuming none of the clearcoat has peeled, I'm pretty confident it won't have done).
Chrome - in terms of ease try the Meguiars one (NXT if I recall correctly), available from Halfords, can't guarantee whether it will hide the swirls but worth a go by hand.

What colour is the paint? I wonder if a machine polish might suit her well

Regards,
Clive.

[Petewete]

Cheers Clive,

It was my intention to do it over the weekend, but he wanted it done last night lol. We done it with the SRP - i have to say, the difference it made to the paintwork was massive. The clay bar i bought, from memory, was Sonus (?) ultra fine, so I'm sure it would be grand. As for the clearcoat, it all seems grand too. Had to take a photo - chuffed with how it turned out!!

[BeefMasta]

Had to take a photo - chuffed with how it turned out!!

Looking good!