<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: marxjunk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">never gonna happen..i worked on the line at a body shop most of my adult life,,,dealt with it often...you can sand with some 5000 but you will prob go thru before its gone...
It was so bad back then..there was no fix but to strip them..
even if you just sanded it flat and painted it..it always came back in little time...because it attacks the substrate all the way to the metal...
Id look around and see if i could find a heavy fill wax...it is what it is..enjoy as it...or spend a bunch of money... </div></div>
Yes, old lacquer was soft and not ready for the outdoor environment to begin with. You may try to enhance what is there by getting the paint clean and then something to put natural oils back in the paint.
I have for years washed old cars with Murphy's Oil Soap, cleans off compounds / polishes, safe to old paint, and then the Adam's Hand Polish below is gentle and does put some natural oils back in the finish. A pure Carnuba wax after that would be good. Stay away from cleaner waxes which give you that white residue.
I think this is a safe way to see if you get an acceptable result.
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