The calm before the (detailing) storm

512detail

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As I sit here enjoying some free time, I look at my calendar to confirm the nice schedule ahead in the next three weeks starting Wednesday.

The last year or so has been great for business. I finally settled into my day job and my idea of booking my free time with paid jobs has worked out pretty well. I`m filling my schedule regularly. My garage /shop is coming along, I have the ac installed, have lights too, just need them hung/working as well as better insulation.

Short of my recent splurge on the Mark 2 21, Mini and Air force blaster..along with my recent Rupes pad order I have managed to do it all, along with pay for my Frontier payments with my detailing profits.

Big thanks to connect btw. Double points add up pretty quickly IME at least, haha.
But that money will be well spent here soon.

So I digress...I`m looking at my calendar and see this beautifil sight...

This wed, I get (due to his out of town work schedule) a Hellcat Charger for 7-9 days. With detailers choice on what I do to it.

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Planning some Rupes love and Gtech CSL + EXO, some leather treatment, engine, gonna do a lot to this car.

Then the next friday when that client picks up I will take delivery of my buddies car that will undoubtedly test my patience with painters tape, lol. Vinyl city...but a nice car nonetheless.

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That next Wed I take my first repeat Mopar client.
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Needs more black ice for the orange and Poorboy`s cocktail for the black paint.

Yes, I Will layer again, lol. Three best in class trophies this summer for her stock Charger SRT8 and three direct referrals driving 60+ miles to me tell me it works just fine :).

That friday I take the backpack detail auction winner, a Metallic Black SRT Hellcat Challenger with nearly 1000 horsepower to the wheels. No vinyl and no flat black hood, thankfully. Just a lot of swirls when I inspected it 5 months ago. I`m sure more now.

No pics but it will get Rupes love and PBLv2.

After that I have to find a way to squeeze in this new scat pack driving down early for the show from NC to get a spot in my garage (a club members new ride-he lives in NC at the moment)
Its a scat pack charger
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I have to squeeze that one in before Tuesday night (not sure what I will do to it just yet).
Then my good friend finally brings me his Challenger, BadR/T -a far from stock 2009 model :)

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thats an older pic. It has since got new tires/lettering and matte clear paint instead of the vinyl wrap on the roof.

So that`s why I say the calm before the storm. Keep in mind I work a 50 hour a week day job as well. This will be an interesting next three weeks starting Wednesday.

Finally just want to end this essentially pointless thread I have created just by saying how greatful I am to the Autopia community which I have came to know as more of the Autopia Family.

I went digging and found my first ever post here.

August 7 2012 when I found this site. Have since adopted this username but from day one I was welcomed by the Autopia community.

http://www.autopia.org/forums/new-autopians-introduce-yourself/172497-texas.html

I am by no means a professional, but I sure wouldn`t be able to turn out the quality I currently produce without the assistance from members and posts on this forum.

And I don`t think I would be booking nice cars like these if I wasn`t doing something right.

Wish me luck with checking off several bucket list Modern Mopar details in the next few weeks
:)

And expect lots of pictures and probably a few deticated threads to specific questions I come across along the way.

If I only had photoshop to create a new clever one, but this is how I feel about the upcoming jobs...

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(thanks Angus)

Ironically it started pouring rain outside and is thundering quite well during the time since I started typing this up and hitting the submit button.

Thanks for viewing.

-Brandt K.

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So that`s where the storms are,just hanging out up there...I`ve been expecting thunderstorms all day since my phone keeps showing cloudy with high chance while it`s sunny and bright outside instead.


Good luck on the upcoming jobs and have fun.
 
Brandt-P/H -
Just a great post !
Love all the awesome pics of MoPar`s Best !!! Beautiful, just Beautiful !

Great story of how the Forum Members found you under a ToadStool and brought you into where it`s warm... :) :) :)

Love the Poster !!! You Killed It !!!

Seriously, you have really gone from 0 to 100mph in just a short amount of time - I love that you have done so good with this and have also been very careful not to break your Bank in the process...

Hope that you continue to keep raising your own bar through your hard, careful work and obvious love for the craft that we call - Detailing -

Good luck with that "Schedule -Impossible" and thanks so much for all the hard work you do for US after you have done all that harder work for Them...
I am so proud of you and your accomplishments !!!
Dan F
 
512detail:
Thanks for taking the time to post pictures of the Mopar muscle cars. While not a Mopar person myself, I do "like" the retro-look styling their new cars (but then I am "little older" person who remembers late `60, early 70`s "Beep-beep" Super Birds, Plum Crazy Hemi `Cudas, and Screamin` Yellow and black Super Bee`s)
There are gawkers and lurkers and wanna-be`s within this forum and then there are OCD detailing doers who take the time to post share their experiences. You are fast becoming an Autopian All-star in my book.
Keep us informed even if it`s later when you`ve finished with this hectic schedule of beloved Mopars and don`t kill yourself.
 
Curveball #1
edit- I just found out the Orange Charger is still around, her husband traded his green with envy 6.4 scat pack challenger for this Go Mango SRT Hellcat Charger (with black stripes)

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So that`s three kitties on the books and one already in my garage

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Update:
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And next...
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He says "i trust ya" as he hands me the red key to a 903 rear wheel hp monster, lol

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he tells me his wife has left the previous two sets of nitto nt555r drag radials all over Fredericksburg (where they live ~90miles away)- lol

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I think I woke the devil moving this Hellcat in my garage. Oh my goodness, sweet baby jesus, and all the like, hahaha

Wow

This is NOT stock

I drew three different neighbors out with two revs. :)

Sick lope too

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Well its Sinatra time so you know what that means...
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Italian friends are on the loose... :)

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1st of all, SUPER SWEET CAR!!! I might be super jealous...just might.

I am a Mopar guy, and so wish I could work on the cars you get your hands on

2nd, NICE WORK!
 
Released this demonic Hellcat into the raining evening (rolling drag radials, mind you)

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So I went to turn on the car this am (still had to clean the wheels and rain wasnt coming for a few hours). Figured id capture its sweet melody...

At the end of the video you can faintly hear me freaking the f out, lol

Called the owner and he said "she needs your right foot to wake her ass up"

Check this out...my foot NEVER touches the gas
Video below -

https://youtu.be/Ty_-IMgxu_w

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Here`s an old mod list, its gotten a little crazier..that was in Jan.
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And add a custom spec prototype cam (car is an early `15-first production run)

Now for somw much needed rest

On tomorrow`s menu...

Literally pulled the cat out and this one in.

Took a few vacation days to fit this one in...

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Scat pack 392

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relocated car club member (rocking our A pillar all the way in SC) :)

Oh and the writeup on the black hellcat will have to wait. I gotta do two more cars in three days.

Please take a nap for me if you can, geez I`m tired. (2.75 hrs of sleep fri night, didnt sleep until 6am-11 sunday morning)

-Brandt K.















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In case anyone was counting, I was one Mopar short.

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Delayed due to the mainly GM performance shop taking forever to install his new SHR Viking transmission :)

Oh well, it will come another day, no worries...

So that`s it. Thanks for viewing.

One more Hellcat on the books in September and probably more Mopars but looking forward to monthly meetings with this beast...
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Just booked "bats" for my paid labor day off.

Jazz blue- a Mopar first for me...now I`m hungry to get the rest of the Modern Mopar colors- in 1 year, I`m really close (white hellcat booked in a few weeks)

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Btw this is our clubs August Ride Of The Month (Rotm), now making the third Rotm this year that has booked a detail with me Post winning Rotm.

Nice.

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My weekend project was parked in my driveway waiting for me when I got home
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I love how they just hand me the red key and roll out, lol

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