1996 Impala SS

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Thomas Dekany

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This was supposed to be just a clean up since the car is going to be for sale.



The car's paint was trashed. The interior wasn't too bad but needed alot of work.



Turns out that instead of a few thousands, this car is worth a lot more.



Interior and exterior. Spent about 4 hours the interior between thursday evening and friday after my other details. Pressure washed the engine.



I had the car from thursday to sunday (easter)



So saturday I wash it and clay it and did the wheels.although not much came off it. :nixweiss



Next I looked at my selection of polishes and chose SIP. However (and) let me make this real short: Nothing worked on removing the top layer of what ever it was. Nothing.

Except OPTIMUM POLISH and only with a yellow CCS pad. The orange worked ok but had to do several passes. Now what was more interesting is that only the UDM was successful. The rotary and the flex was just sliding over it if that makes any sense. Even without any paint correction (some were achived by default though) I ended up polishing for about 13 hours. WTF?:soscared::soscared::wall:wall:wall:chuckle::chuckle::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:



Process



wash

clay

op yellow ccs pad udm 6

Poli seal white pad udm 6

CG EXTREME DEPTH LIQUID CARNAUBA CREME WAX + X-Seal

Poli Seal on wheels

AA spray on tires x2



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Some during 50/50 pictures



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The hood and left front fender done with OP & PS



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Second day of polishing and 50/50 after OP & Poli Seal



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Boy did you have a busy weekend or what. Nicccee!! When you told me about this one I though that it would be an easy in and out. So much for that.
 
I wanted a Black Cherry '96 Impala SS SO bad back in '96. Unfortunately, at the time I was a poor, starving engineer & it was WAY outa my price range. The dealers were selling them for sticker (or above)... no dealing to be done. Ended up buying a '96 Thunderbird sport. Still a V8, but a little sportier... & price was about $10k less. They've held their value quite well over the years tho.



Nice job on the turnaround. It's still a bada$$ car!
 
Great work indeed, tdekany.



That's my dad's car there. He's owned it since new, and it followed us all the way from Texas to Maryland.



I'll have to hit you up one of these days about doing his '72 911 Targa as a birthday present oslt.



Thanks again for making the old girl shine like new again. I think the next owner will be in love.
 
odj said:
Great work indeed, tdekany.



That's my dad's car there. He's owned it since new, and it followed us all the way from Texas to Maryland.



I'll have to hit you up one of these days about doing his '72 911 Targa as a birthday present oslt.



Thanks again for making the old girl shine like new again. I think the next owner will be in love.
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Hey! Thanks so much. Yeah let me know about the 911. What color is it?



How is the GTI?



This is ODJ's VW



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Since this is the "O.C.D. Anal retentive car wash forum", :clap: just a few suggested tweaks to make the car look even better than it does now...

1) remove all unwanted stickers and residue

2) clean with steel wool or paint exhaust tips black

3) fix rear view mirror

4) polish headlights

5) now that the wheels are clean, try polishing them to bring out the aluminum shine

6) I think the engine in that car is not your average engine, perhaps a detail there too?

Good job on the detail too. :2thumbs:
 
Looks awesome Thomas! DCM really is a nice color when it's all cleaned and polished. I wish mine had enough clear to give it another really good polish job.....



That VW looks great too!
 
tdekany- Great job! Interesting about the rotary just sliding across the surface.



I too am a big fan of those DCM b-bodies, thanks for sharing this.
 
Nice work! :woohoo: I like the flake in the DCM Impala's.



It is nice to see an Impala SS on this site. (I own one, so I may be a little biased);)



Here are a couple of random pictures of my DGGM (dark green gray metallic) 1995 Impala SS. It has 180k miles on it and I run it on the road courses a couple of times a year.







Coming into turn three at BIR.





More polished Impala's please! :thx



Randy
 
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