We dropped our 1974 Airstream Sovereign at M & M Truck Polishing on Thursday and picked up her tonight. M & M Truck Polishing is one of 3 or 4 truck polishing shops in Eloy, AZ, which is half way between Phoenix and Tucson. We found them originally through this post on Airforums.com. Knowing they had past experience with Airstreams was huge for us. We have been wanting to polish Airstreamy since we got her. We even bought a bunch of polishing stuff, but never got around do doing it ourselves. So, in my instant gratification mode, I told Matt we needed to take the trailer down to Eloy ASAP.
We called a couple of other shops in Eloy to see what they would quote us for a price. One shop quoted us a super low price, but I wasn’t sure if they would stick to it and we hadn’t seen any of their work. I was fairly certain that M & M wasn’t even around anymore, as the phone # on the building is disconnected and there is no photo number for them in the phone book. Luckily, as soon as we got to Eloy, we pulled into M & M and the guys happened to be there-SCORE! We agreed on a price and a timeline, then said goodbye to our old friend, Airstreamy. Her makeover is beyond amazing. I think they had 3 guys working on the polishing over a period of 5 days. My best guess is that there was at least 180 man hours in this polish job (5 days x 3 guys working 12 hour days).
If you want to take your trailer to M & M Truck Polishing, the main polisher there is Antonio and the phone # we have for the shop is 520-483-5571. E-mail me at Jennifer@TwinsAndCompany.com if you would like more info on pricing.
Here is what Airstreamy looked like when we dropped her off last Thursday:
We’ll be replacing all the blue trim and re-painting the lettering in the coming weeks.
The old WBCCI numbers are gone, but we’ll get new ones when we join. Look at how bad the banana wraps were.
They applied a diluted acid to help remove the clear coat before starting to polish.
This was a quick area the guys showed us before we left her for her 5 night sleepover:
Here are some in progress photos:
When we dropped Airstreamy off on Thursday, Antonio wanted to show us just how shiny the finish could be.
After just 1 pass with the clear coat still intact.
Tools of the trade.
And, here the after shots from tonight, as M &M was wrapping up the polishing:
They even polished the wheels for us.
The letters are dirty, dirty. We’ll be cleaning them soon.
Airstreamy’s first selfie. 😉
Hibbard selfie!
Let’s talk about how dirty you get from polishing an Airstream. These guys deserve major moola for doing jobs like this:
This is Antonio, the main polisher. He is awesome.
How about some before and after shots?!
They were able to remove some dents from the front panels and banana wraps…how cool is that? Our banana wraps look SOOOOO much better.
We’ll be spray-painting our LP tanks and hitch, so they look better against the polish. We also bought a Cyclo model 5 polisher, so we can get out a few swirl marks. The guys at M & M did an outstanding job-we would recommend them to anyone.
I’m in love with Airstreamy all over again! ❤
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