Socal detail trip....Z06, SS, and Z28

[white gecko]

I recently did a detail trip to socal and took care of a few members down there from a GM performance message board. There was originally going to be more cars, but several people flaked, so I decided to turn it into a working vacation. Got to hang out with a friend and visit my ex (we're still good friends), so it was definitely a fun trip! Also made a connection thats gonna get me special access to see the Space Shuttle lift off next month!!! Woot!!!!







You may remember this car from this thread a little while back: http://www.autopia.org/forum/pro-de...8-got-full-wetsand-buff-~50hrs-pic-heavy.html



I did a full wetsand on a new paintjob on that car. Unfortunately it got nailed by hard water sprinklers just a few weeks later and baked in the sun. Since there is no product that can prevent water spots, it needed to be corrected out. So I met up with Elvis (owner) and did some light correction work to bring it back to where it should be. And this time I got a bunch of sunlight pics too!!!

Forgive a little dust here.... dirty road on the way to this spot for pics!

 

[white gecko]

Here is part 2 of my detail trip to socal. This sweet Z06 is owned by an Air Force Captain. This Z was in great shape with the exception of some moderate swirl marks. He opted for a 1 step correction and it came out pretty well, about 70% correction of the swirls. Finished off with Blackfire Wet Diamond.





before...

AFTERS (was fighting with the clouds for sun pics here)

 

[white gecko]

Here is part 3 of my detail trip to socal. Same owner as the Z06. This car was previously owned by SPECIALIZED STAINLESS, a former sponsor on LS1tech. If you frequent that forum, you might remember the build of this car here: **Specialized Stainless Camaro Build** - LS1TECH





Unfortunately the car was in very poor shape. It had excessive contamination buildup and oxidation was starting as well. It looked good from 20 ft, but any closer than that and it started showing its age. So it was my job to make it look beautiful again. The contamination is hard to photograph, and it was WAY worse in person but I think I got some good descriptive pics of it. Took about 4 hours to clay all the contaminents off. Afterwards it was followed with 1 step correction to bring some life and gloss back to the paint while cutting out the majority of swirls as well. After a good 10+ hours of work this SS was back to looking good again. Onto the pics...







befores...

you can really see the heavy contamination here...

contamination removed from spoiler. can still see where some hasn't been removed below the spoiler

 

[white gecko]

Finished pics...

I was fighting with cloud cover again. I guess this is the norm in the early morning near the coast this time of year.

The sun finally peaked out for a couple minutes, barely...

Thanks for checkin it out!

 

[ADetailedFinish]

Great job on those cars! Sounds like it was a win win trip even though you had some flakes!

 

[tssdetailing]

you've definately been making some waves in the LSx crowd-congrats, man!



I'll have to beat up steve (specialized stainless) for letting his car get like that!

 

[Envious Eric]

why didnt you call me while you were out this way? looks like you were in the OC area, no?

 

[white gecko]

why didnt you call me while you were out this way? looks like you were in the OC area, no?

Did you want to team up on some cars or something? Yeah I wasn't far from there.

 

[RaskyR1]

Great work as always Jeff!

 

[Jrichards4]

Looks great, love the white SS. What did you use on the rubber trim around the windows?

 

[white gecko]

Great work as always Jeff!

Thanks Rasky!

Looks great, love the white SS. What did you use on the rubber trim around the windows?

Thanks! I used Zaino Z16.