After a nice break to Madrid and then on to the Canary Islands, the obvious antidote to all that lounging around is to spend the day hunched over a Capri with a polishing machine and a bucket of soapy water 
For want of a better strategy, I’ve continued doing the rest of the car with the Farecla G3 compound using the same basic strategy; wash, rinse, compound, add water, compound again, wash, rinse, wash, rinse, chammy 
These two shots are trying to give a flavour of the amount of crud, oxidisation, grime, muck and everything else that builds up on the car over the years – which the G3 compound is trying to get rid of. Note the half-finished roof and the tailgate …
In the shot of the tailgate above, you can see how it just sort of absorbs light and doesn’t reflect anything back, compared to the rear wing that’s already been done. 
Now, here’s a couple from after the whole car’s been gone over … don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t magically make rust spots disappear or anything, but it does bring back the depth to the paint and give you reflections 
I’ll also hold my hand up at this point and admit that the polisher has burned through the paint in a couple of places 
, but it’s only where I’ve previously applied new paint with a rattle can and have been too aggressive with the machine. All part of the learning process and, to be fair, the chappie at the paint factors had warned me about it … but I guess I got carried away 
Next thing to do then, now that all the crap has been taken off the surface is to start with the actual polishing and try and get some kind of consistent finish. I’ll be using Auto Glym’s Super Resin Polish, so you can see how badly it comes out over the next few days 
EDIT 26/05/2008:
tom burgess: the pic on the near side rear quarter makes the car look super shiney
well apart from the boot
dangerousdave: Nice work as ever stu, you cant go far wrong with super resin polish either mate, its what we use in my house and is piss easy to put on and get off 
Might be an idea to clay bar it too whilst your at it as it recons it gets some bits off that compound cant 
Keep at it