Very nice machine. Care to shae on your preference on what kind of wax / polish you use
I have an old car so I have a lot of automotive waxes, polishes, compounds, etc. in my arsenal. Most of my car-care stuff is Meguiar's - no special reason, just like their products. They work well, and well... darn it they smell nice.
While I waited for my order of Flitz to arrive from eBay I started cleaning this up with Meguiar's Scratch-X product which was ineffective. Next I moved on to the Mequiar's Polishing Compound which was maybe slightly better. Both products have worked great on my car, but given the amount of caked on grime on the 44, they were simply not aggressive enough for this job. When the Flitz arrived, I put that on a polishing disc on the DA attachment for my drill and went to town. The results are slow to develop, but satisfying in the end. You do need to be careful with it, especially over the edges of embossing. I managed to thin the red paint quite a bit on the embossed Coca Cola script - trying to reach the grime inside the lettering.
When the polishing is done I may run a clay-bar over it just to see if that does anything useful. I doubt it will do much after using a fairly aggressive polish like Flitz. When it is all done being cleaned, I will probably hand wax it with some of the Mequiar's liquid cleaner-wax I have on the shelf just to protect and shine it up a little. It will be indoors and it isn't a fully restored show machine, so I don't think I need to use the gold-glass paste wax I use on my Spitfire.
