Elegance Auto Detailing - 1990.5 Ferrari Testarossa - 30+ Hour Restoration

[JoeyV]

<span style="color:#3399cc;">This is a car and detail I hold very close to my heart, as this is the very car I grew up dreaming of. I still have the 1:18 die cast model my father bought me when i was about 10 years old.

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This particular car ended up in the EAD studio because of the outcome of the silent auction for an unlimited detail package, during the 2013 Karz4Kidz charity car show, sponsored by yours truly. After a nearly 2-month wait, the car came in for it`s 4 day restoration.


Originally, this car`s paint was a single stage solid black finish, however, some areas had been repainted with time, and therefor no preset package was going to be used and everything would have to be custom tailored to every panel. Paint thickness readings were all over the place, so I went for the maximum correction I could safely achieve over the entire car without risking to burn through the finish. This meant that the overall result could not be 100%, but would rather hover around the 90% mark. Enjoy!




Products used:

<span><span style="color:#FF0000;">Washing

`Elegance Heavy-Duty Degreaser

`AutoGlym Active Insect Remover

`AutoGlym Intensive Tar Remover

`Chemical Guys Diablo Wheel Cleaner

`Elegance Tire Cleaner

`Various wash mitts, sponges

`Stoner`s Invisible Glass

`Prep Towel

`Elegance Clay Lube

`Iron-X

`Various brushes


<span><span style="color:#FF0000;">Correction

`Meguiar`s #105

`Meguiar`s #205

`Optimum Metal Polish

`Various Microfibers

`Flex Rotary 3403

`Porter Cable XP7424

`Red Lake Country CCS pad

`Black Lake Country CCS pad

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<span><span style="color:#FF0000;">Protection

`Zymol Ebony

`Wolf`s Hard Body (wheels)

`Elegance Engine Dressing

`Aquapel

`303 Aerospace Protectant

`AutoGlym Leather Cleaner and Balm

`Chemical Guys New Car Smell

`Poorboy`s World Bold `N Bright



At arrival, it was clear that this car needed some serious attention. The tires were covered in silicone-based dressing which needed to be removed to ensure the final result would not be spoiled with sling.
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Since this was an unlimited detail, the wheels were removed for a complete cleaning. Issues to be dealt with were 2 decades of built up break dust, balancing weight residue, tar and silicone-based tire dressing.
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This was after a single pass with Iron-X.
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And this was after 2.
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These wheels had been rebalanced, but the previous weights` glue was left on the lip of the rim, so I made sure to remove this.
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And what the wheels looked like when all done and dressed.
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Time for some foam!
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Once the paint had been degreased and decontaminated, the "Truth" was very obvious. Swirls, RIDS (Random Individual Deep Scratches), holograms and buffer trails were all over the paint. It had clearly been polished before, but not by a paint reconditioning specialist.

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[JoeyV]

<span style="color:#3399cc;">Once inside, all damageable parts were masked off and I got going on what would be a 25+ hour correction.
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Here are some reflection shots of the car inside the shop with no wax applied yet.
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An MR member came by to help me shoot some footage for a possible upcoming second video.
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This is a reflection of my car in the hood of the Prancing Horse. My hand is there, albeit blurry, to show it`s not a straight shot. :P
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Once the paint correction was finished, the car was sterilized and waxed with Zymol Ebony, a wax specially formulated for black single stage paints. The interior was given a proper clean and the engine bay was steam cleaned to ensure no water infiltrated critical areas. Here is the final result of 4 days and 30+ hours of work on this iconic car.
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[JoeyV]

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<span style="color:#008080;">(The horizontal lines you see in the roof are electric power lines, not scratches :P Just in case you were wondering)
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<span style="color:#008080;">When the owner picked it up, he made a comment that stood out from the rest of the conversation: "I`ve never seen this car so black." He`s owned it for 20 years now, so this made my day.


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As always, thanks for looking and happy detailing!

[David Fermani]

Very nice work on a classic F car!

[Catch-22]

You did one heck of a great job. Great work.

[Guru17]

Cracking job! The car looks all it`s worth afterwards.

[jimmie jam]

Very nice result. Nice to see that this car has been DRIVEN.

[imported_ww2717]

Beautiful Work. Sonny Crockett would live to drive that on the streets of Miami.`