The clear coat on my car is pretty much gone. Whatever is left is flaking off. It will be a while before I decide to paint it. So in the meantime, I am looking to make it look more presentable I guess, if it is even possible. The "patina" look is probably the closest I'll get.
My plan is to sand off whatever clear is left and then go over the whole car in stages with fine sandpaper. Hopefully this will leave it looking like a single stage flat paint job. I hope that it will look uniform and not a bunch of swirl marks everywhere, but at this point I doubt I'll make the paint look worse than it does now, especially with very fine grit sandpaper. I know I cannot re-clear this paint so what I was thinking was using something for flat or matte finish paint to maintain it, such as Ratwax or Chemical Guys stuff. I have tried the boiled Linseed look on a fender once, it wasn't exactly what I hoped for. The main thing I'll want to do is bring back the black color, right now it is charcoal gray.
Basically I am looking for options if anyone has done this before. I do actually kinda like the paint job with the scallops and two-tone but I know I cannot "restore" the paint, so I figure the method I might do would at least be a band-aid until I actually decide to paint it. Below is a picture of the car. If you look above the trim you'll see a band going down the side of the car, that is the clear coat. Thanks.
