Open Garage! - April 12th

[Mike Phillips]

Open Garage! - April 12th

What a great turn-out tonight! We had a lot of great guys and a lot of great cars for tonights Open Garage at Meguiar's

Check out John's 1960 Cadillac!




Barry stopped by to talk shop too!




Well back into the garage... more pictures later!

[sneek]

teasers

[Newport Viper]

Great night, great cars! Had a blast!

Thanks Mike and Barry!

[CaddyDaddy]

Had a great time....I really appreciate Mike's help and advice. Where else can you have dinner, talk car's and meet some really cool new people...... only at Meguiar's Open garage! I enjoyed the stories Barry told as well. See you guys next time!

[fatchance]

Another awesome night at Meg's, met some great people and saw some cool cars.

[the other pc]

Thanks for another fun, productive and informative session Mike!

Thanks also to the great bunch of attending car guys for making it fun and sharing the passion for cars.

And a very big thanks to Barry for hanging out, talking shop and making it all possible in the first place.


PC.

[Mike Phillips]

Most days, weeks, etc. are very busy and it can be hard to carve out the time to upload photos from all of the events we're involved in, such is the case with the Wednesday night Open Garage events, but they're so much fun, (for car guys), and we do so many different things, that it is a priority to do our best to share some photos from these events...

SubieRon brought us his Subaru WRX with a fresh bird dropping and water spots throughout the front clip of the car. We demonstrated how to remove the bird dropping safely using ScratchX by hand, then after demonstrating correct technique for applying a paint cleaner by hand we went ahead and machine cleaned the area using a rotary buffer and then we taught Ron how to use the G100 Dual Action Polisher to remove the water spots using M83, followed by finish polishing using M80 and then applying NXT Tech Wax.


SubieRon pointing to the etching left by a bird dropping...






Note the fingerprint in the lower left to give you perspective...




Water spots





Rotary Buffer Work




Ron restoring a better than show room new finish with the G100 Dual Action Polisher




And here's an Avatar for Ron!

[Mike Phillips]

This 1960 Cadillac was so cool, we're really glad John, aka CaddyDaddy brought it down, in fact we're going to bring him and his Cadillac back for an Extreme Makeover as the finish has a few swirls were going to help him remove to create a finish worthy of a classic Cadillac like this.

[Mike Phillips]

Check out the spacious front interior...



The 1960 Cadillac is approximately 19.5 feet long!




It doesn't fit inside Meguiar's Garage!






Here's John doing a little cleaning with the G100 Dual Action Polisher and some M80 Speed Glaze!




And now he's applying a little NXT Tech Wax...

[Mike Phillips]

Now here's some cool looking tail lights!






Oh yeah...




Here's a new Avatar for the CaddyDaddy...

[Mike Phillips]

Barry came by and talked shop and fielded questions...

[Newport Viper]

Funny story to the last picture. The guy with Barry is my next door neighbor Robert. At 3:30 I am laying down a coat of NXT on our M45. He starts asking all kinds of questions about the DA, bonnets, ect.

I'm like hey, Meguiar's has this thing on Wed. nights, want to go?

Next thing you know he gets to meet the man himself!

"Each one, Teach one!"

[Mike Phillips]

John, aka fatchance, Dave, aka Newport Viper and Robert talking shop at Meguiar's Open Garage while the hood of a Mercedes-Benz is introduced to the rotary buffer.

[Mike Phillips]

The young man on the discovered a door ding in the passenger door of his new car. Richard Lin, aka OctaneGuy removed the scuff and then inspected the damage using a Swirl Finder.




We work on a wide spectrum of cars and car care issues during Meguiar's Open Garage!

[rammsteinmatt]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
The young man on the discovered a door ding in the passenger door of his new car. Richard Lin, aka OctaneGuy removed the scuff and then inspected the damage using a Swirl Finder.




We work on a wide spectrum of cars and car care issues during Meguiar's Open Garage!

those are some really clean enkei's (wheels). probably took 30 mins to clean