Polishing Black Cars?

If you want to get swirl marks out with compounds, you're going to need a good rotary buffer and learn how not to burn the paint with it. A Porter Cable 7424 will help, but it's not powerful enough to get the really bad ones out. You could try wet sanding, but that's difficult and scary for some people too....

Zaino Brothers has a great kit that has a compound, all in one, stage finishes, and a scratch remover (will cover up swirls). It's a bit expensive, but it's a synthetic polymer that give a superior reflection. It also lasts for a long time on the car (about 6months). The downside is that it lacks the depth of a carnuba wax. Best thing to do is to do the Zaino treatment and build up a nice base with multiple coats, then put on a good Carnuba after all the Zaino. It will give you the best finish.

You'll need some wax applicators, the actual polymers/waxes, 100% cotton towels, wash mitt, good quality car soap, glass and interior cleaners, chamois, etc. I recommend the Porter Cable 7424 if you're not familiar with buffing a car, you can't burn the paint with it and it is powerful enough to remove some of the swirls with a good compound. If your paint is in really rough shape, you should stick with the 3M or Meguiars compound stage systems...

Turtle Wax's Black Box kit is a special three-step kit/process to help restore, polish, and protect your black car's paint finish.

The first step is a restoring pre-wax cleaner to remove contaminates from the car's finish, a restorative carnuba wax, and a protective detailer.

All three steps contain special black pigments to help fill in scratches and hazing, but won't permanently stain skin or clothing so you can apply them by hand or machine.

http://www.turtlewax.com/

Go to Meguiars website. They have car care kits available.