dsms detail: Ford GT, #1

[dsms]

2005 White Ford GT, this is serial #1. Booked for light correction detail.

Started on the wheels

Before

After

Foamed the car and carried out the wash, first nice day I had to work on one of the owners cars outside

Clayed w. fine clay

Paint wasnt too bad. Corrected with medium cut polish on the new PC, finished down with the metabo. Inside shots were useless on the white finish, waited until I got some sun shots in the after pics.



Wheels were hand polished and sealed with 3 coats of AJT, tires dressed matte

Cleaning the glass engine cover was a a bit of a task, I made it work thanks to wide rear tires

After, side trim dressed as well

Cleaning glass backed with halogens

Glass firewall cleaned as well, you can see the supercharger spool behind your head, pretty neat.

KC mats again, tidied up with Folex

Interior after

Jambs cleaned and sealed

Tailpipes polished with white di. and steel wool, housing dressed. Rear diffuser cleaned and dressed as well.

50/50

Engine cleaned up

 

[dsms]

LSP machined on and left overnight

That ended day 1, came back in the morning for the final touches



Finished shots

Some direct sun shots after the final wipedown

And here is the GT at a charity event I was apart of (owner was the host). We got very lucky that the rain held off that morning.



In good company... 512 BBi and some other hunk of junk

Thanks for looking

 

[MichaelSpoots]

Beautiful car, and awesome results! :wow:



You certainly deserve to have worked on serial #1. It'll make a nice add-on to the stories you tell, years down the road.

Anyway, you made that white paint look like liquid glass, and thanks for sharing!

Oh yeah, I especially like the healthy, matte finish on the interior.

What did you use to clean/dress it?

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Fantastic work there. Just awesome. :2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs:

 

[Leadfootluke]

Awesome work!



Love the car.

 

[Scottwax]

Excellent work, really has a nice glow-extra impressive on white paint.

 

[Pats300zx]

Awesome work Dave.

 

[smokin180]

Very nice awesome glow.

 

[MarcHarris]

great work Dave - truly turned into a show-car.



Isn't that VIN # 195 though? did Ford do something different with the GT?

 

[ctrent86]

Like Scott said great glow for white, amazing job.



Also, was that brown car in the picture an old vette?

 

[dsms]

great work Dave - truly turned into a show-car.



Isn't that VIN # 195 though? did Ford do something different with the GT?

I dont know a thing about ford VINs, all I know is that this car is the first one in production for 2005, first year they made the car.

 

[wmb67]

Truly impressive car and attention to detail. Great job. Thanks for posting

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Well I see that someone doesn't want to come to my next, next birthday party either... . Is it just me or do the 512 and the GT have strikingly similar silhouettes?

Great work, Dave and I'm happy to see such beautiful steel in deserving hands like yours .

 

[seech]

Great work Dave!

 

[DaGonz]

Fantastic work there. Just awesome. :2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs:

Times two!

 

[dsms]

Thank you boys

 

[Labster]

Beautiful work Dave! Having had the pleasure of detailing a few of these (one of my customers has 3 of them) I truly appreciate the level of work that goes in to working on one of these. If you ever have a chance to ride in one, do so! Hearing the turbo spool, especially with a Heffner kit is amazing!

 

[dsms]

Beautiful work Dave! Having had the pleasure of detailing a few of these (one of my customers has 3 of them) I truly appreciate the level of work that goes in to working on one of these. If you ever have a chance to ride in one, do so! Hearing the turbo spool, especially with a Heffner kit is amazing!

Cant hear a turbo "spool" on a supercharged car unless its turbo modified but it still sounds great stock. The supercharger whine was enough for me when I drove this, the plexi firewall is great too because you can see the SC belt spin behind your head!

 

[Labster]

Cant hear a turbo "spool" on a supercharged car unless its turbo modified but it still sounds great stock. The supercharger whine was enough for me when I drove this, the plexi firewall is great too because you can see the SC belt spin behind your head!

My bad. You know where I was going with it. lol. My one client has one that's been modified by Jason Heffner and being in it is like being in another world. The term rocket ship seems to come to mind.

 

[StadiumDetail]

I dont know a thing about ford VINs, all I know is that this car is the first one in production for 2005, first year they made the car.

In a past job I work for a company that did product testing for GM. Those pre-production cars all had VINs, and were 95% of what the actual production was. So my guess is GT VIN #01 is in some Ford warehouse, and #02-94 were test models, this was the first sold to the public.