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    I was on my way to work the other day to finish up a Semi I was working on when I got a text from my client telling me that he had another car at his gargae for me to work on while I was there. Knowing him i knew it could be just about anything. I walked in the garage and there sat a CLK63 Black Series. This car is one of my favorites after seeing how good of a review that Jeremy Clarkson gave it on Topgear. Then I was informed that it was owned by the Indy car driver Graham Rahal. Just that alone made it 10 times more exciting for me to work on. Only a wash was performed on the car for a photo shoot the next day but here are some pictures that I took of it during the process.







    This car made a long journey for the photo shoot so it was pretty dirty. It really needed to be clayed and polished out but the car would not have been at the garage long enough for that to happen.







    Hiding in the background is the massive Semi that I spent about 17 hours on. The main part of the detail was polishing out all the aluminum, which when you included the surface area of the rear deck takes a long time.















    As you can see the water was still beading up pretty good on the paint after I washed it so I just gave it a quick wipe down with Chemical Guys V7 as i was drying off the car.















































    Hope everyone enjoys and thanks for reading!!!!

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    Nice work Addison! That car looks sick, and those fender flares just show you that it`s all business. And I like that you choose a red cowboy hat...orange might have marred the paint if it had fallen off!

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    Cool car. Looks like you have yourself a great client. Awesome hat!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikenap
    I like that you choose a red cowboy hat...orange might have marred the paint if it had fallen off!


    :spit:LOL!



    Nice collection in that garage. Someone needs to tell Graham to have a professional do his letters. Those look bad with the poor spacing. Otherwise... Beautiful car!

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    Geez. I have drool on the keyboard now. What a ride. All of them.
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    I lol`d at the hat.
    Doing it BIG!

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    wow great work!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikenap
    Nice work Addison! That car looks sick, and those fender flares just show you that it`s all business. And I like that you choose a red cowboy hat...orange might have marred the paint if it had fallen off!


    Thanks, and its hard to work on a car with that hat on without it hitting the paint. haha



    Quote Originally Posted by detailfanatic
    Cool car. Looks like you have yourself a great client. Awesome hat!


    He is the best client you could ever have. Always has work for me and i can basically go to work whenever i want. Makes my schedule a lot easier.



    Quote Originally Posted by Nth Degree
    :spit:LOL!



    Nice collection in that garage. Someone needs to tell Graham to have a professional do his letters. Those look bad with the poor spacing. Otherwise... Beautiful car!


    Haha i agree.



    Quote Originally Posted by Brad B.
    Geez. I have drool on the keyboard now. What a ride. All of them.


    Hahaha i drool evertime i walk into that garage.



    Quote Originally Posted by Tru_Shine
    I lol`d at the hat.


    Hahaha you like the hat??? Thanks again for the help with the truck, im gonna do a write up on it and give you mad props I would have been lost if it wasnt for you.



    Quote Originally Posted by OverTimeDetail
    wow great work!!


    Thanks!!!

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    good god, the things i would do for this car..

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    Nice work, a customer of mine has the same car, but in black, so sick!



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    hey thats scotty`s garage, he has some really impressive cars and is a great guy.

    where you polishing his freightliner??
    Its not called DETAILing for nothing

 

 

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