1904 Cadillac lite Detail-Before

So this is part of a collection of one of my very good clients. The car was restored 6 years ago, painted with a single stage paint, painted pin stripes and had a custom interior installed, with new coated leather with was chrome tanned, not vegetable tanned as it was in 1904. I have been doing leather care research for the last 3 weeks, I bought some new leather care products that I will be reviewing. I will also be going into a very detailed discussion about different leathers and different techniques of caring for car leather. There is a lot of confusing info out there. I put three hours into this " lite " detail. I will go over several options to take this car higher up in my 1-10 rating scale. The car has been garaged and not driven since the restoration. I pretreated the paint with ONR 256:1 using my Solo Hand Pump Sprayer, then used the rinseless ONR method, using The Rag Companies Eagle Edgeless MF towels. I did a pretty thorough paint depth gauge reading on the entire car, comparing left/right fenders, different panels and seeing how much variance there was ( even on the same panel ). There was a lot. My client started off telling me he wanted me to " dust off " the car. There is still a long way to go, even after 3 hours. Hope you enjoyed this. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ! Upcoming videos are going to really be amazing !

Added 7 Jun 2026