Hi all! I hope you all had a great weekend because I know I sure the hell did
. I was invited by the Ferrari dealership to a Ferrari party this weekend at
Hotel Hertelendy and then to the
Hungaroring today to play with big boy's toys... wow. My small fee, if you want to call it a fee, for the whole weekend was washing all the cars for the guests as they arrived to the hotel. Didn't have to think twice about accepting that offer
! Here's the pics and the story:
We met at the dealership at the butt crack of dawn 0530. Robi was in the California... Now technically I was supposed to be in this car, but...
I got stuck with Gábor in this animal... I know, what a shame
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Józsi and this young lady were in the white Scaglietti and the owner of the dealership and his wife in the blue Scaglietti.
Me in the Scud
When we arrived to the castle. No this isn't the medieval-style castle that pops into mind; it's a modern-day castle with a pond, hunting grounds, skeet shooting range, driving range, horses a helicopter landing pad, a landing strip and plenty of other stuff that none of us would normally ever use or even need
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Pretty overcast day which was good because we couldn't wash the cars in the hangar...
Getting everything set up
The caretaker at the hotel provided us with tools and cleaning supplies to do our work... he really shouldn't have.
After punting the hotel's wash bucket a few meters we were able to start with the Scaglietti. The sun was still playing peek-a-boo with us but for the most part it was still pretty cool outside.
Gábor dressing the wheels
Me accessing the disaster of having 5 willing hands to help me, with no clue about what they're doing. I had to give these guys a crash-course in washing cars properly and as scratch-free as possible.
Concentrate on the car, Jesse...
Attila had a "hard" time trying to concentrate, as well
Right about this time is when the sun came out and started baking everything... we still hadn't gotten into the rhythm of working with each other yet, because everyone wanted to do everything (snow foam, wheels, etc.). Right about this time about 1/2 of the California was washed and an o-ring on my PW lance broke :yikes:. I managed to rig the PW so at least we could rinse it off, but by that time it was too late... the suds had already started to dry on the car I'd just spent two days on polishing
. Even if I'd just taken off the hose and rinsed it with that, it still would have been spotty, because Hungary is infamous for it's hard water; it only took a few seconds to dry in that heat.
We took a break for lunch and thankfully when we got back, the side of the hangar provided us with a bit of shade. Each car was foamed, rinsed, washed with Sour Power using the 2BM (my help had a hard time understanding and sticking to that method
), then dried with my new mini leaf blower jobby and then wiped completely dry with a MF. The wheels were addressed with Organizone G1 wheel cleaner (safe for ceramic brakes because it's PH neutral once mixed with water) and assorted brushes. The snow foam (InstaFinish Superfoam) did and excellent job of loosening up the assorted bugs and road grime on the cars. The tires were dressed with InstaFinish Premium Protect All.
And of course I left my signature in all of the guests' cars... Tic Tacs and a business card
My new wash monkeys in action. They actually did a great job once we got into the swing of things and they really enjoyed learning how to wash a car correctly
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