Cleaned up and ready for show!

[Al B. Bach]

With warmer temps finaly here I was able to hook the water back up to my coach. Unfortunately a pipe appears to have burst during our hard winter here in Kansas but I at least have water for the dogs and to wash the car.

I spent the last two days going over her with extreme care because the paint is so thin in a few spots that it would not take much to strip it off. Special thanks go out to gregg g for the Bon-Ami trick. It worked great! Took off almost all of the oxidation and didn't remove any of the paint! I just finished up waxing her this morning and cleaning all the glass and tires. I still have some clean up to do on the inside but she's basically ready for her first show Saturday.

What do you think? Before and after. The first two shots are from the day we got her.

Later,

Carl

[White Spyder]

Looking very good! What color is that?

[greg g]

Thanks for the Huzzah on the Bon Ami. Seems converts are slow to arrive but easy to convince.

SPREAD THE WORD OF THE POWER OF BON AMI !!!

[oldodge41]

Looking great Carl! Amazing what some elbow grease can do. Show that car with pride..............Tim

[1940plymouth]

oh yes, the Chyrsler sure looks good, and so does the leaves coming on the trees, no such luck here yet

[Al B. Bach]

Thanks for the kind words guys. I am letting everyone I talk to know about Bon Ami. Mom and Dad remember it (I'm really getting tired of hearing them sing the old slogan) but had never heard of using it on cars. This stuff is great!

The color is a very light blue. I have no idea what Chrysler called it. I need to get a set of paint chips so that I can match it when I get it painted next year.

The leaves just sprouted this last weekend. It sure is nice to see some warmer temps again. We just had the coldest and weirdest winter I have seen. One day we had a record low of -16 and yet the next days high was in the 60's. An 80 degree change in less than 24 hours!

[greg g]

You might want to give gettingit repainted some thought. The Walter P Chrysler has some awards for true umolested survivors if you ever get to any of their shows.

But as always your car your choice. Did you try the BA on teh exterior glass?

[Al B. Bach]

The main reason I may have it repainted is because of the rust that is popping out here and there. There is some that could be pretty bad if left alone just in front of the rear tire on the passenger side . I would hate for it to start rotting through and they use a lot of salt on the roads here during the winter.

[Drdialtone]

So, sorry if I missed it, but what IS the Bon Ami trick?

[greg g]

Bon Ami is a low abrasive fledspar ased cleanser, for house hold cleaning. Its selling motto is Hasn't Scratched Yet. You wash your car with it, and it removes a lot of oxidation from the paint stainless, and road schmutz from the glass. It is effective a using a light rubbing compound, but it will not bun through paint where it may be thin, and doesn't leave swirl marks. It will remove rust stains that might be weeping through the paint, or that may have dripped down the paint from higher body panel or seams.

Carl can eview the process he used. Basicall I wet a section of the car, sprinkle the cleanser on and wash it. For vertical surfaces, I put the cleanser on the washing cloth.

I use terry cloth, typically old towels or washcloths.

[Al B. Bach]

It's something Gregg told me about in a PM. When you have old paint that is getting thin and oxidized you can use Bon Ami to remove the oxiditation without fear of removing the paint. If I had used normal rubbing compound I gaurantee I would have stripped most of the paint from the hood.

You can get Bon Ami at a lot of places. I picked it up from a local True Value. Just wet the car down and sprinkle it on. Then rub it in and rinse it off. Works great as long as you rinse it thourghly. If you leave any on it then it will show but it's pretty easy to rinse off.

I have not tried it on glass. I have been using either Knipps glass cleaner or wax for many years to clean glass. I didn't have any Knipps on hand so I did all the glass with wax. Works great and acts like Rain X when it rains.

I used to be a detail tech at a local Buick dealership so I m generally pretty good at detailing cars but I had never heard of Bon Ami before I came here. It sure would have been useful back then.

Later,

Carl

[Al B. Bach]

Bon Ami is a low abrasive fledspar ased cleanser, for house hold cleaning. Its selling motto is Hasn't Scratched Yet. You wash your car with it, and it removes a lot of oxidation from the paint stainless, and road schmutz from the glass. It is effective a using a light rubbing compound, but it will not bun through paint where it may be thin, and doesn't leave swirl marks. It will remove rust stains that might be weeping through the paint, or that may have dripped down the paint from higher body panel or seams.

Carl can eview the process he used. Basicall I wet a section of the car, sprinkle the cleanser on and wash it. For vertical surfaces, I put the cleanser on the washing cloth.

I use terry cloth, typically old towels or washcloths.

You beat me to it Gregg. I usedthe same techniques as you with great results.