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I typically give this car a quick detail inside and out every year, but this time was a little different as the owner had spray painted some cabinets in the garage and covered the car in white overspray. In all of the before pictures the car is actually clean; the haze you see is the overspray. Since the car had only light marring under the overspray I decided to use a medium grade clay bar to minimize the chances of additional marring, I then used a mixture of Mother’s Pre-Wax Cleaner and Meguiars D300 on a LC polishing pad to remove the remainder of the paint and refine the finish. All polishing was done with the Rupes 21 & 75E polishers, the tight areas around the trim were hand polished.
As an aside, you can tell in some of the pics that the car has scratches in the chrome bumpers, the window trim has some pitting, etc. The car is owned by a retired gentleman in his early 70s, this is his current driver/cruise/carshow ride and is one of many that he’s either built from the ground up or bought and modified, and then sold over the years. It has a 348 and was converted to an automatic. The interior was redone, though the dash could probably use some fresh paint to bring it up to par with the upholstery, carpets, etc. It’s not a show car or something you would see at Barrett Jackson, but it is a car with a lot of curb appeal that gets driven frequently. Anyway, onto the pics.
Before:
The owner had a fender-protector on during the incident, here you can clearly see the extent of the damage:
DSC06533 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06536 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06539 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06541 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06544 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
During:
DSC06552 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06555 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06563 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06583 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
After:
DSC06586 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06590 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06594 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06595 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06598 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06601 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06619 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06623 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06629 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06637 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06641 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06643 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06646 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06647 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06657 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06662 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
DSC06667 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on Flickr
Thanks for looking, and as always, comments and questions are welcome.
As an aside, you can tell in some of the pics that the car has scratches in the chrome bumpers, the window trim has some pitting, etc. The car is owned by a retired gentleman in his early 70s, this is his current driver/cruise/carshow ride and is one of many that he’s either built from the ground up or bought and modified, and then sold over the years. It has a 348 and was converted to an automatic. The interior was redone, though the dash could probably use some fresh paint to bring it up to par with the upholstery, carpets, etc. It’s not a show car or something you would see at Barrett Jackson, but it is a car with a lot of curb appeal that gets driven frequently. Anyway, onto the pics.
Before:
The owner had a fender-protector on during the incident, here you can clearly see the extent of the damage:
DSC06533 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06536 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06539 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06541 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06544 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDuring:
DSC06552 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06555 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06563 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06583 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrAfter:
DSC06586 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06590 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06594 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06595 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06598 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06601 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06619 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06623 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06629 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06637 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06641 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06643 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06646 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06647 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06657 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06662 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrDSC06667 by Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT, on FlickrThanks for looking, and as always, comments and questions are welcome.
