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Recently I was contacted by Kevin Brown, "iamwaxman", and invited to Alpine headquarters to help color sand and polish out Alpines 2006 BMW show car.
I met Kevin Brown when I attended Meguiars first NXT class, NXT CLASS / SEPT. 2004 . He was one of the instructors for the class.
We have kept in touch since and he finally called me to help on one of the many awesome projects he gets to do.
I was contacted a just a few days before the rub out and because of the short notice I had to reluctantly decline the invitation due to a full work day that day.
I did offer my services “after hours” if he needed me as back up.
About 9pm I got Kevin’s message on my voice mail asking if I had a little time to spare on the rub-out. The message time stamp was at about 5pm and I just about kicked myself for not checking my messages sooner.
I got to Alpines HQ just before 10pm and fired up my buffer. My job was to buff out areas that had been color-sanded a second or third time with a wool pad to get them perfect. Then I was to finish off the panels with, “whatever I thought was best.”
Kevin had Meguiars complete arsenal and then some!
I found the paint to be VERY fresh and difficult to polish but Kevin and myself tried a number of product and pad combinations and got the finish look like GLASS.
A number of people where buzzing around the car. Some worked a time on the body along side me for awhile and others had a go at the hood and other loose parts. All day long different people color-sand and polished on the car so I can only take a very small part of the credit for how the car turned out.
What a pleasure it was to be told, ‘MAKE IT PERFECT!” And Kevin was really cool to work with.
Below you will find a few before pics. I never saw the car completed. Kevin called me this afternoon from the Consumer electronics Show in Vegas to tell me the car looks AWSOME and should win an award! He promised some pictures of the car when he returned.
I met Kevin Brown when I attended Meguiars first NXT class, NXT CLASS / SEPT. 2004 . He was one of the instructors for the class.
We have kept in touch since and he finally called me to help on one of the many awesome projects he gets to do.
I was contacted a just a few days before the rub out and because of the short notice I had to reluctantly decline the invitation due to a full work day that day.
I did offer my services “after hours” if he needed me as back up.
About 9pm I got Kevin’s message on my voice mail asking if I had a little time to spare on the rub-out. The message time stamp was at about 5pm and I just about kicked myself for not checking my messages sooner.
I got to Alpines HQ just before 10pm and fired up my buffer. My job was to buff out areas that had been color-sanded a second or third time with a wool pad to get them perfect. Then I was to finish off the panels with, “whatever I thought was best.”
Kevin had Meguiars complete arsenal and then some!
I found the paint to be VERY fresh and difficult to polish but Kevin and myself tried a number of product and pad combinations and got the finish look like GLASS.
A number of people where buzzing around the car. Some worked a time on the body along side me for awhile and others had a go at the hood and other loose parts. All day long different people color-sand and polished on the car so I can only take a very small part of the credit for how the car turned out.
What a pleasure it was to be told, ‘MAKE IT PERFECT!” And Kevin was really cool to work with.
Below you will find a few before pics. I never saw the car completed. Kevin called me this afternoon from the Consumer electronics Show in Vegas to tell me the car looks AWSOME and should win an award! He promised some pictures of the car when he returned.
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