Detailed: 6 cars, 5 days, 2 Ferraris, Jag, 2 Merc's, Porsche (51 pics)!

01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:35

WOW! Since Saturday till today (Wednesday) I have been working a very nice gentleman’s collection. This guy knows his car stuff and is TRUE car enthusiast. I got a hold of 6 of his cars although he does have more. Because of the number of cars and pics, I simply limited the time I took for before and afters so for each car I generally included one of each. The pic I tried to capture in the before is pretty much what the rest of the car looked like. I’m kinda tired so bare with me as I skip some of the story and go straight to process and pics!

Interior Process was pretty much the same for all… Vacuum, clean carpets with Folex, Lexol Leather cleaner, water/woolite on vinyl, treated rubber/vinyl with 303 and leather with Zaino Leather.

First…. 1998 Mercedes SL500. Sat outside for the last 6 months and was extremely dirty on the outside.

Process –
Wash and clay
EC with Yellow Cut @ 1700 RPMS
Menzerna 106FF with polish pad @ 1500 RPMS
Collinite IW845

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01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:38

Second…. 2001 Ferrari 456 MGT, this car was in the best condition out of all of them.

Wash and clay,
Menzerna 106FF with Polish Pad @ 1500 Rpms
Zymol HD cleanse
Zymol Destiny

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01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:42

Third…. 1963 Jaguar XKE (Restored) Entire Car a repaint (obviously) so I had plenty of thickness to work with.

No wash since it was already clean.. QD wipe down and clay.
EC with Yellow Cut Pad @ 1500 RPMS (Clear coat was very hard)
Menzerna 106FF with Polish Pad @ 1500 Rpms
RMG with finish pad @ 900 RPMS
Pinnacle Souveran

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01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:47

Fourth…. 1998 Ferrari 550 Maranello Straman Conversion… pretty bad swirls

Wash and Clay
EC with Yellow Cut Pad @ 1500 RPMS
Menzerna 106FF with Polish Pad @ 1500 Rpms
Zymol HD cleanse
Zymol Vintage

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01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:48

Fifth…. 2006 Mercedes S550 Bought 6 months ago, virtually no swirls but very dirty.
I basically just did a Wash/Wax/Vacuum (only two after pics)

01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:52

Sixth…. 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS Most of the paint is original. Some areas of paint were cracked. I did a little more light polishing on this one because of the cracked paint in some areas and the thinness in others. ( I have paint gauge).

Wash and clay, then Menzerna 106FF with polish pad @ 1500 rpms.
RMG and then Souveran

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01bluecls · 03-14-07, 08:54

ALL CARS - Tires all treated with Zaino tire gloss along with some exterior lower trim. Metals and chrome polished with Flitz. There are a lot of steps i did not list and products and what not. Understand im very tired!

I spent about 60 hours the last five days getting these cars done!

Whew! Questions and comments as always. I will not answer questions about what my client does, what area he is in etc. for obvious reasons.

SpoiledMan · 03-14-07, 08:56

Chris, you my friend, are GREAT!

Kenney · 03-14-07, 08:57

Brilliant!

ttsoca · 03-14-07, 09:23

Very nice i wish i had cars like that to do. You did a very nice job! keep it up.

01bluecls · 03-14-07, 09:58

Also, a side note, the owner (along with the six cars I posted) has a 01 M5, Land Rover LH3, 73 Ferrari Daytona, Porshce 944 Turbo and a Jeep Wrangler CJ....talk about a collection!!!

tdekany · 03-14-07, 10:24

Perfect work Chris!

Are those propel pads?

You don't use a handle on the 9227?