Re: KPack's 1954 Panama
Posted by kevinpackard On 2020/6/20 16:43:39
Work continues on the Panama. While I wait to figure out what to do with the fuel tank, I've turned my attention to other matters.
I found a guy who does mobile soda blasting and should be able to make the drive out to my place. I'm waiting to get an estimate from him to blast the whole inside of the car, minus the doors. That way I can be sure that all the rust is gone from the roof area, and I don't trust whoever did the paint on the floor. Whatever they put on it is peeling up in a few places. I'd rather be positive that the floor is perfect and then coat with POR-15. Then insulate, etc.
I took the stained and smelly seats to a local detailer and had him do his best to clean them up and get the smell out. The vinyl cleaned up nicely, all things considered. Steam cleaning helped some, but also brought up underlying stain from the padding. He built a tent over the seats and ozoned them for a while as well. They smell 90% better now....a huge improvement.
Joe Santana was kind enough to send me some samples of cleaning solutions he's used (see page 2 of this thread) with good success. My oldest daughter and I tried them out and I have to say I'm impressed. The rear seat back had a huge black stain get pulled up from the padding (was there prior to steaming, but more pronounced now). It's much better after the Sol-u-mel, though another application or two might help it more.
The rear seat bench was in the best condition of them all, but I still went through and cleaned and got the major stains out. Not perfect, but certainly passable.
The front bench had the passenger back reupholstered at some point with new vinyl. I had to laugh because the detailer was able to get the original vinyl cleaned up and back to white. The replacement vinyl was matched to the discolored and dirty vinyl, so it's yellow. Whoever did the vinyl replacement didn't bother to clean the original vinyl to see what the color was supposed to be.
So in summary, the stuff Joe sent me seems to be working. The seats will never be perfect, I get that. But I want to keep them original as long as possible and at least presentable. It's a plus that the cleaning solution smells really nice....anything will help my stinky car.
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I found a guy who does mobile soda blasting and should be able to make the drive out to my place. I'm waiting to get an estimate from him to blast the whole inside of the car, minus the doors. That way I can be sure that all the rust is gone from the roof area, and I don't trust whoever did the paint on the floor. Whatever they put on it is peeling up in a few places. I'd rather be positive that the floor is perfect and then coat with POR-15. Then insulate, etc.
I took the stained and smelly seats to a local detailer and had him do his best to clean them up and get the smell out. The vinyl cleaned up nicely, all things considered. Steam cleaning helped some, but also brought up underlying stain from the padding. He built a tent over the seats and ozoned them for a while as well. They smell 90% better now....a huge improvement.
Joe Santana was kind enough to send me some samples of cleaning solutions he's used (see page 2 of this thread) with good success. My oldest daughter and I tried them out and I have to say I'm impressed. The rear seat back had a huge black stain get pulled up from the padding (was there prior to steaming, but more pronounced now). It's much better after the Sol-u-mel, though another application or two might help it more.
The rear seat bench was in the best condition of them all, but I still went through and cleaned and got the major stains out. Not perfect, but certainly passable.
The front bench had the passenger back reupholstered at some point with new vinyl. I had to laugh because the detailer was able to get the original vinyl cleaned up and back to white. The replacement vinyl was matched to the discolored and dirty vinyl, so it's yellow. Whoever did the vinyl replacement didn't bother to clean the original vinyl to see what the color was supposed to be.
So in summary, the stuff Joe sent me seems to be working. The seats will never be perfect, I get that. But I want to keep them original as long as possible and at least presentable. It's a plus that the cleaning solution smells really nice....anything will help my stinky car.
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