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05-08-08, 03:25
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| | Glossy Tundra
Brandon1 is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wrightsville Beach, NC/Louisburg, NC Posts: 1,881 | Re: Labor of love
mose, that is a truley awesome story, and there is definatly a place in heaven for you. Please update us on her reaction and send her our warm wishes for a safe season.
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05-08-08, 05:18
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| | Registered User
abbeysdad is offline
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 813 | Re: Labor of love
Really great job!
You inspire me...my wife's brother is recovering in the hospital after a freak accident (literally hit by a truck) and a great gift for when he gets out would be to leave there with a freshly detailed ride.
Maybe Mothers back to black or a similar product would bring the plastic trim back. | |
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05-09-08, 08:05
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| | Registered User
mose is offline
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 895 | Re: Labor of love
Thanks for the comments guys!! I will post her reaction later tonight! I also added a couple pics of the repainted badge on the tailgate. It was bugging me all day at work so I took care of it last night!!
Thanks again! | |
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05-09-08, 11:48
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| | Ari Gold
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southport, CT Posts: 6,689 | Re: Labor of love
That's some story. I'm sure she will be thrilled; truck came out great !!
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05-09-08, 12:26
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| | Detailing Voyeur
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Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Overland Park, Kansas, USA Posts: 243 | Re: Labor of love
Kindness; nobler than revenge. - Wm. Shakespeare
You've done a great thing and I have to believe that whomever vandalized that truck will get what is coming to them, somehow, someday. Like you though, I'd love to see it happen in person. 
PS: I wish that I had the patience to tape up a badge like that for painting!!! 
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05-09-08, 01:30
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| | Registered User
mose is offline
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 895 | Re: Labor of love
I agree.....whoever did it will get what they deserve!! People like that always do!!
Taping that badge was easy! I just ran tape over the whole thing and then, with an exacto knife, cut around the chrome part and pulled the rest away. Sprayed with paint and dried it with a hairdryer!! | |
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05-09-08, 02:51
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| | Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 286 | Re: Labor of love
That was so nice of you. I'm sure she'll like it. | |
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05-09-08, 07:55
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| | Loves cars
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Join Date: May 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada Posts: 773 | Re: Labor of love
A detail straight from the heart. The B & As are nice mose, great job!
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05-10-08, 01:27
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| | Registered User
mose is offline
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 895 | Re: Labor of love
Hey guys,
Delivered the car before my softball games last night. She was very happy! She was smiling ear to ear the whole time she was checking it out! She thanked me a few times during the rest of the night and was telling everyone about how clean her "new" truck was!! It felt really great to see her so happy!!
Thanks again for all the comments!!! | |
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05-10-08, 03:15
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| | Practical Perfectionist
Accumulator is offline
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 20,857 | Re: Labor of love
mose- Thanks for the heartwarming thread 
From the great job you did (and the fact that you did it period) to hearing about her recovery, this was just super.
And yeah, nice save on that emblem! | |
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05-10-08, 07:03
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| | numa numa...
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Planet Autopia! Posts: 460 | Re: Labor of love
Not all details have this kind of background story. It makes the turnaround even more fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
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05-11-08, 08:29
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| | Dreamer
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: England Posts: 498 | Re: Labor of love
great detail - all the better because of the background. Good to make up for the lowlife that do this stuff...
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