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Paints 15 years old. First time user. LOVE IT! WORTH every penny. 
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What are you doing waxing your car in winter!!!?? But it looks GREAT! 
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold  1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
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its not waxing...its polish....I`ve Zainoed my car about 4 or 5 times last 8 yrs....its a great product!
just Zaino, no wax
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I just did one side last hour with Meguires 7...very nice too, but I am going to try some of this stuff.
Which of their products did you use Bill? My paint is PPG Base-Clear....All I use the Meguires for is to deepen, polish and hide the light swirl marks..
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I used the swirl and scratch remover from Meqires first last week. To strip all the grime away. Then I heard about Zanio. Then I got the Z-2 for clear coat paint. Since it was my first time I also got the ZFX additive accelerator. 3 coats of Z-2 finished up with the spritzer detailer.
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I was just in davenport Friday sure would have liked to see that. I'll be back in a few weeks I bought a rv from terry frazier, might give you a call to check it out if your not busy.
Where do you buy it at?
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Here's the side I tweaked up today, used some Menzerna Final polish and then Mequires 7. I am going to give Zaino a try tho...thanks for the info...going online now to find a local dealer. Notice those nice newly sandblasted and painted rims  
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Found a local Zaino rep...did you do 3 coats one after the other? Accelerator in all or just the last one.
I like Meguires, but it only lasts a few weeks as its not really a hardened finish, but its darned easy to apply and polish off...
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Wow Dave, car looks sharp. Now you just need black centers for the rims and blackwalls out. Just bustin on ya bud, car looks really nice...
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I'll get the black inserts when I do the redlines in a year or so...damned Coopers still won't wear out! May have to help em on their way!
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Better? Opinions... I think you are right tho...may just flip em 
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I like the white letter look the best...
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400 man that stuff looks like it definately works!
Dave, definately blackwall out. One of my pet peeves with classic cars. Classics that are too old to have had white letter tires. Smoke em up so you can get your red lines!!! LOL
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I was just in davenport Friday sure would have liked to see that. I'll be back in a few weeks I bought a rv from terry frazier, might give you a call to check it out if your not busy.
Where do you buy it at? Jerry , I bought mine directly from Sal Zaino...I emailed him first ,told him about what my paint was , he have his recommendation...very nice guy... and yes I bought the accelerator also...... here`s their website http://www.zainostore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
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Smoke em up so you can get your red lines!!! LOL Just let your daughter borrow your 'bird for a month. Those tires will need replacing after that!
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
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and every time I`ve done my car I use about 1/2 of that 'mixer' container for my vert...it goes a LOOOOONG way! But I think this spring its time again...its now 2 yrs since last time. and NO wax!
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Zaino Z-2 with the ZFX accelerator is all that my Mustang has known since it rolled off the assembly line on 9/15/05. I did the complete treatment with their clay bar the 1st time to get the rail dust off of it.
I just completed it's semi-annual re-apply a couple of weeks ago. The car is dark blue and the smooth reflections of the paint are out of this world. Still.
It's a no brainer that this is the only stuff my Firebird is going to see after it gets painted.
2012 Mustang Boss 302 #1918, Competition Orange. FGF replacement
2006 Mustang V6 Pony, Vista Blue. Factory ordered.
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Old projects, gone but not forgotten:
1967 FB 400, original CA car. After 22 years of work, trashed by the guy who was supposed to paint it. I had to sell it.
1980 Turbo Trans Am
1970 Mustang fastback, 351C 4Bbl, auto
1988 Mustang GT, 5 speed
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I'm calling the guy today to get some and will hold off on the work I started yesterday! I am thinking blackwall out too....shows the rest of the car off better, the letters are to much "info" for the eye me thinks. Sh!t, I just had em remounted and balanced! If I let my daughter run it around, the whole car would need replacing
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If I let my daughter run it around, the whole car would need replacing You know what they say about female drivers... there's no survivors!
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LOL LOL
We have a friend in our little Pontiac club, he owns a 71 LeMans 400/4-speed. The car is black and he also uses this product and it looks incredible. Funny story that fits in here. He had Craigers with white letter tires on the car for years. All the shows we went to together he never won anything. I sold him my Rally II's off the Firebird last year and he just put them on leaving blackwalls out. Went to a two day car show this past w/e and won a top 20 trophy. So he is now happy about the Rally II's and blackwalls out. We busted his "stones" for the past three years about his Craigers and white letters.
I'll see if I have a pic of his car just after using the Zanio, it looks AMAZING!
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This stuff sounds(and looks) like good sh!t. Is it applied with a power buffer or by hand? How many different steps? Clay Bar first then start with the Zaino?
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This stuff sounds(and looks) like good sh!t. Is it applied with a power buffer or by hand? How many different steps? Clay Bar first then start with the Zaino? by hand...one directional, no swirling...just front to back strokes....clay bar may be good first ,dep on the current shape of 'trash' on the paint...I didnt as my first Zaino was 2 yrs after new paint...
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LOL LOL
We have a friend in our little Pontiac club, he owns a 71 LeMans 400/4-speed. The car is black and he also uses this product and it looks incredible. Funny story that fits in here. He had Craigers with white letter tires on the car for years. All the shows we went to together he never won anything. I sold him my Rally II's off the Firebird last year and he just put them on leaving blackwalls out. Went to a two day car show this past w/e and won a top 20 trophy. So he is now happy about the Rally II's and blackwalls out. We busted his "stones" for the past three years about his Craigers and white letters.
I'll see if I have a pic of his car just after using the Zanio, it looks AMAZING! OK Joe , I just HAVE TO get on you for that! lol I`m not one for winning trophies, but have gotten some, Buick rims , white letter tires and all...but if it would have to be a choice between getting trophies or me liking the way my car looked...I`d forget about the trophies! 
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This stuff sounds(and looks) like good sh!t. Is it applied with a power buffer or by hand? How many different steps? Clay Bar first then start with the Zaino? Yea ,this looks like good stuff.Time to make a another order.
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I just called the local Zaino supplier, and am going to pick some Z5, Z2, Z6 and accelerant, tomorrow...
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LOL LOL
We have a friend in our little Pontiac club, he owns a 71 LeMans 400/4-speed. The car is black and he also uses this product and it looks incredible. Funny story that fits in here. He had Craigers with white letter tires on the car for years. All the shows we went to together he never won anything. I sold him my Rally II's off the Firebird last year and he just put them on leaving blackwalls out. Went to a two day car show this past w/e and won a top 20 trophy. So he is now happy about the Rally II's and blackwalls out. We busted his "stones" for the past three years about his Craigers and white letters.
I'll see if I have a pic of his car just after using the Zanio, it looks AMAZING! OK Joe , I just HAVE TO get on you for that! lol I`m not one for winning trophies, but have gotten some, Buick rims , white letter tires and all...but if it would have to be a choice between getting trophies or me liking the way my car looked...I`d forget about the trophies! Same here Bjorn, but I may just try them out for this year...., I always get 3rd in class in the local Pontiac show...I thought it may be because I do not belong to the club that puts it on (always seems to be club members taking the top prizes even tho I think I am at least 2nd!)..Maybe its the tires...mmm we shall see
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My car's 1980's lacquer lives by Zaino. When I got it, it had a normal wax job complete with swirls. After a wash with Dawn and a good claybar job, the paint looked every bit of its 25 years. If not for the chips and scrapes you would never know how old and tired the paint is, Zaino really brings it back.
It is even resistant to mulberry-filled bird droppings.
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My car's 1980's lacquer lives by Zaino. When I got it, it had a normal wax job complete with swirls. After a wash with Dawn and a good claybar job, the paint looked every bit of its 25 years. If not for the chips and scrapes you would never know how old and tired the paint is, Zaino really brings it back.
It is even resistant to mulberry-filled bird droppings.
First and second pic are after Zaino.
Third pic is before.
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Vikki is that a 1 part or 2 part lacquer job on your car.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is only one kind of lacquer, single stage. To make it worse, it is a repaint over factory lacquer, so there are some chips where it did not bond properly. Paint was applied in 1986 (maybe '84, I forget what the seller said) so I am happy with the way it looks today.
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I'm just looking forward to the day when I can repaint my car. I bought it with what I would guess was the $99 paint job. It's got cracks all over it. I don't care how good the wax, polish is. As soon as the kids get their junk outta my garage, I'll go for a repaint. But that may be 20 years from now : (
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Wow Vikki, those are compelling pics! I am impressed with those results!
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Just think of what it can to to make my 3 year old BCCC paint "POP"
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If the car is a solid color, you can use a single part lacquer. Where you will have problems is where there the paint is metallic or pearl. If you compound the metallics the paint will look uneven/bloutchy, so they apply a clear over top. However, there is nothing that would prevent someone using a clear over a solid color lacquer. Just asking, because your car looks great.
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I have PPG "Concept" single stage on mine
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Back in the 70's when I was painting cars and motorcycles in lacquer it was common practice to apply 2or 3 coats of clear lacquer over the color coat with wet sanding between coats to enhance the depth of the shine. When good acrylic enamel hardened clears came out we used to shoot a coat of clear Dupont Centari clear over lacquers for the cutomers that didn't want to pay for the final sanding and buffing. The lacquer was very easy to work with. You could correct any body work issues and recoat all in the same day. Follow up with the clear and you had a nice shiney durable paint job for a driver. Show paint was several coats of clear lacquer over color sanded and buffed.
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Got my Zaino at lunch today, Z2, Z5, Z6 and accelerator. Can hardly wait to do a test panel tonight....
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