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I had a lot of experience with a friend of mine that builds and supplies all manor of fibre glass produts and repairs to the boat and car industry, his suggestion is as follows obviously sand down the car using 600 or 400 paper and repair any minor defects as required U-POL do a range of products
for all fibre glass preperation and repair, once you are happy with the car and most of the paint is either sanded or prepared clean it with tack rags mask as required and clean again to make sure as good as you can get from dirt and dust ingress, Spray the car with U-POL refinsh which you have to mix as per the instructions of harder, resin ect This puts a complete new gel coat type layer over your existing and forms a key for new paint and stops the old gel reacting. When you happy with the finish lighty sand with 1200 or similar to remove any deep lines or blemishes that may be evident, Once happy with the base use a tack rag as before and make sure surface is clean and dirt dust and grease free, Then use a filler primer like bar coat to spray over the prepared car and let dry, this will show up any further imperfections you may wish to address, if happy use a 1200 down wards to a finer finish wet and dry to remove any lines or visible imperfections you may have, once happy clean with tack rag and mix your paint ready for spraying
once sprayed let it harden approx two weeks before polishing, I suggest a product called G10 for the final buff with a proper variable speed mop
when using this product keep the mop damp and the area you are polishing slightly wet, and do not leave the mop to go dry as it can burn your paint
move swiftly across the painted surfaces be careful of edges so as not to remove the paint while buffing let it dry, use fibre cloths to clean of and buff any residue. Then when happy with finish polish using ZYMOL or a GOOD specialized quality polish like mequires or equivlant i do not like MER or
AUTO GLYM as they do not t give the deep shine that the others do, 1 always apply polish with a damp round mequires type polishing pad and let it dry and afterwards polish of with fibre cloths the shine will get better every time you repeat the process you can get the u-pol information and help from a company called CYB on 01268 696094 and Zymol and mequires both have web sites with video clips that help you understand the process
hope this helps you as i have just completed mine and came fourth to my suprise in the concourse at prescott for my 1992 mantula v8 as per my picture in my reply box rgds HYDRAULIC 1