Easy way to clean up old paint/fiberglass??

You can use Flitz polish on both paint and Fiberglass and it does an amazing job restoring paint jobs for sure! You Tube has a good video of this process- you use a Buff Ball they sell on a drill to buff it out so maybe within your physical capabilities...Check it out...

Thanks for your advice - I'll definitely get prices from body shops and detailers. If you see a tan '87 Falcon that needs a paint job it'll probably be me!

RayUSMC wrote:

kgragert wrote:
"The yellowpages can help you call around for $ quotes. "

Come on Ray, I'm 70 and haven't seen a phone book in at least 15 years. :)

Though I do see the thin 3rd party phone directories littering the driveways in the neighborhood every once in a while.

:S Yellowpages are online now.

Are you squared away now?:R

No even though I'm 70, I'm still a Google search fanatic.

On my phone, I just say "OK Google" and ask for: car detailers near me. (Don't know if I'm lazy or spoiled)
Thanks for the tip though.:)

kgragert wrote:
"The yellowpages can help you call around for $ quotes. "

Come on Ray, I'm 70 and haven't seen a phone book in at least 15 years. :)

Though I do see the thin 3rd party phone directories littering the driveways in the neighborhood every once in a while.

:S Yellowpages are online now.

Are you squared away now?:R

"The yellowpages can help you call around for $ quotes. "

Come on Ray, I'm 70 and haven't seen a phone book in at least 15 years. :)

Though I do see the thin 3rd party phone directories littering the driveways in the neighborhood every once in a while.

Paint and unpainted fiberglass are different cleaning/polishing problems, and it depends on how far the finish has gone. It is usually not just cleaning at that age, rather removing weathered finishes down to an unweathered base.

If it can be cleaned and polished, the job could be a few hundred dollars.

If it needs to be stripped down and painted, it could be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand, depending on the quality of work you want and how much repair and preparation is needed. Most of the cost is labor.

In the late 1950s when I was working in my dad's auto body shop, Maaco was already in business advertising "any car, any color" for $49.95. Our minimum price for a full body paint job was $400, based on 30 man-hours labor at $10 an hour, plus paint and materials. We would charge $600 to repair a Maaco paint job, because it took at least another 10-15 hours work to clean up the mess they made, getting down to the base for a proper job. Inflation says multiply the dollars by something like 10 to 20, the amount of labor is about the same, except that if you've got fiberglass, the prep work can be double the time, getting down to undamaged plastic vs getting down to bare metal.

kgragert wrote:
Find a mobile car detailer and get some quotes, if they don't do it they probably can steer you to someone who can

X2. It's a big job for health problems.

Reputable car detailers will use a polish and good sealer. So will some body shops. If its not to your liking then consider a new paint job at Maaco or a similar place like a body shop. Both options have equipment and manpower for that task.

The yellowpages can help you call around for $ quotes.

Find a mobile car detailer and get some quotes, if they don't do it they probably can steer you to someone who can