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Here we have the Classic American Sports Car. California edition (no hard top included)
This was a daily driver for years until the kids got bigger and on to the Range Rover for that.
My customer used to own a high end body shop so she knows paint.
This was a repaint and detail without the details.
Orange peel in a few spots, sanding marks left on the hood and the white? COMPLETELY scratched up with sanding marks. Why? Because the panels are CONCAVE and hide defects very well by deflecting light away from your eyes.
Geesh! Can one body shop do a good job? I've never seen one yet.
Waterless Washed
Clayed
M105
DeWalt Rotary
Wool Pad
Rupes 21
Meguiar's MF Finishing Pad
Meguiar's D301 Finishing Wax
Lots of marring too
Buffer trails
Driver rear marks
Buffer trails on the all over the trunk
No shine and sooooo scratched up
Orange peal too
On to the work
Remove these flimsy wiper arms. Your rotary will break these off in a heart beat
Now some of you don't clay "because it doesn't need it". Well I ALWAYS CLAY.
Here's a good reason why. This paint was smooth to the touch.
Well as I clayed I noticed all this black coming off the paint.
What is it? TAR!!! My customers neighborhood is getting re-tared and a light coating of TAR was all over the car.
You couldn't feel it or see it, until I clayed the car.
So Clay, ALWAYS CLAY. You never know whats on the paint.
I thought this was a CC/BC but it turns out it's Single Stage
MF Pad didn't work to well so onto the Wool and Rotary
There we go. Much better results with the Wool and Rotary
ACTION SHOT!
This little gem has some trunk and no junk
To elevate the trunk past the lic. plate I put a 3 gal bucket under it.
on to the hard a** white paint
3" pad to the rescue. About 3 polishes needed to correct these deep scratches
M Detailing
When I got to the drivers side I found this. A BURN through! Nice body shop work at it's finest!!!!!!!!
I got the customer to show her. I called it a day after this.
Next day it was onto waxing/polishing
DONE!
That's soooooo much better!
Concave doesn't show the shine either!
I love a butt shot! Sexy, Sexy rear end on this beauty!
I love this cockpit!
My customer said this was a rare version due to the Automatic Tranny and Power Windows
I had to post the engine too
This was a daily driver for years until the kids got bigger and on to the Range Rover for that.
My customer used to own a high end body shop so she knows paint.
This was a repaint and detail without the details.
Orange peel in a few spots, sanding marks left on the hood and the white? COMPLETELY scratched up with sanding marks. Why? Because the panels are CONCAVE and hide defects very well by deflecting light away from your eyes.
Geesh! Can one body shop do a good job? I've never seen one yet.
Waterless Washed
Clayed
M105
DeWalt Rotary
Wool Pad
Rupes 21
Meguiar's MF Finishing Pad
Meguiar's D301 Finishing Wax
Lots of marring too
Buffer trails
Driver rear marks
Buffer trails on the all over the trunk
No shine and sooooo scratched up
Orange peal too
On to the work
Remove these flimsy wiper arms. Your rotary will break these off in a heart beat
Now some of you don't clay "because it doesn't need it". Well I ALWAYS CLAY.
Here's a good reason why. This paint was smooth to the touch.
Well as I clayed I noticed all this black coming off the paint.
What is it? TAR!!! My customers neighborhood is getting re-tared and a light coating of TAR was all over the car.
You couldn't feel it or see it, until I clayed the car.
So Clay, ALWAYS CLAY. You never know whats on the paint.
I thought this was a CC/BC but it turns out it's Single Stage
MF Pad didn't work to well so onto the Wool and Rotary
There we go. Much better results with the Wool and Rotary
ACTION SHOT!
This little gem has some trunk and no junk
To elevate the trunk past the lic. plate I put a 3 gal bucket under it.
on to the hard a** white paint
3" pad to the rescue. About 3 polishes needed to correct these deep scratches
M Detailing
When I got to the drivers side I found this. A BURN through! Nice body shop work at it's finest!!!!!!!!
I got the customer to show her. I called it a day after this.
Next day it was onto waxing/polishing
DONE!
That's soooooo much better!
Concave doesn't show the shine either!
I love a butt shot! Sexy, Sexy rear end on this beauty!
I love this cockpit!
My customer said this was a rare version due to the Automatic Tranny and Power Windows
I had to post the engine too
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