thanks for the compliments guys! I was pretty impressed myself, as was marks_lude, the member on here that I did this for.
We were pretty aggressive with his car. Usually wash the car, dry, clay bar the car, then wash it again, and dry.
Then I use a 3m rubbing compound (usually fine cut if the car has good clear left, regular rubbing compound if it’s a super oxidized single stage which his was as it was painted once I believe). Either way his paint was pretty faded.
Then I think we used a Meguires Paint cleaner which is just a finer cut.
Add in some 3m Imperial Hand Glaze to fill some scratches.
Top with 2 coats of mother’s carnuba wax (old school stuff in the metal tin) I think it has one of the higher carnuba percentages of the things you can buy at pep boys.
Used a wool pad for the rubbing compound and polish. Cotton plush pad for hand glaze and regular cotton one to take off the wax. I usually end up spending at least 4 hours on a car, but I’m slow and my arm gets tired, even with an orbital buffer, lol.