This, from a guy who knows it all....read on.

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a.k.a. Patrick

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There was a decent right up (Actually i have seen this write up before, but cant remember where i saw it, maybe it was here on Autopia!) about car care, and maintenance. This fool comes back with this reply:



"I know people who own bmw's and never ever wash them. it sucks, i wish i could steal their car.



and my car has a damn good shine after 13 years of abuse, all it needed was a good waxing a few times, granted the paint is all gritty. but you can't tell when you're 15 feet away ."
 
ah the joys of the internet and forum boards.



but really, sometimes i see a dirty high-end car and i think, i wish i could steal it, detail it, and then return it. :D
 
hirosh said:
ah the joys of the internet and forum boards.



but really, sometimes i see a dirty high-end car and i think, i wish i could steal it, detail it, and then return it. :D
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Its the only way....

:p
 
"Yes officer, I know it's not my car. But can you wait and arrest me tomorrow? Because the Sealant Glaze needs to cure for 24 hours before I can apply the P21s."
 
hirosh said:
ah the joys of the internet and forum boards.



but really, sometimes i see a dirty high-end car and i think, i wish i could steal it, detail it, and then return it. :D
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I've done this... sort of...



Well, not really... I didn't steal the car, but I use to detail cars out of a friends auto repair shop in the evenings when the shop was closed. Once when I was down at his shop he had what looked like an all original 1967 Firebird in his shop for an engine replacement.



I walked around the car and gave it a good once over. The entire finish, a medium blue metallic single stage paint, (original from what I could tell), was completely oxidized, evenly over the entire car.



This isn't the car, but it was the same color, (and the one I buffed out was a hardtop).

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I knew the owner was a young man and that his parents had bought the car for him and were paying to have the engine replaced. My instincts told me that they would probably just have the car repainted, or worse... try to restore it themselves...



So I asked the owner of the shop if I could buff out the Firebird after the shop was closed. He said, "Go for it".



So I started at around 6:00pm and meticulously performed a multi-step machine buff-out with the rotary buffer. I machine buffed the glass to remove the water spots and run the buffer over all the chrome to spruce it up then dressed the tires etc.



I left the shop sometime in the early morning. I never met the the owners. I always wondered what they thought when the picked up their car.....





Mike
 
a.k.a. Patrick said:
Mike Phillips, a.k.a. Santa Claus ?
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I love taking a [v]diamond in the ruff[/b] and turning it into a Glistening Gemstone It's a passion... (that eventually led to a job). Strange how life works out....



I started with this...



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It's a 1948 Plymouth coupe that I stripped the paint off of and then saved my nickels and saved my dimes to have a local custom painter lay down some 1976 Ford Bright Red Acrylic Enamel on. Long story short, I learned what not to do when restoring oxidized, water spotted paint about a year after having it painted and subsequently throwing the rods out in the engine on night.



My dad recently found my old Plymouth for sale in Oregon, pretty much in the same shape I sold it in except a dual carburetor system and split exhaust.



Mike



My dad and I really did yank this car out of a barn, with chickens and field mice living it it :D :D :D
 
a.k.a. Patrick said:
... granted the paint is all gritty. but you can't tell when you're 15 feet away ."
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On the road of life, there are drivers and fender feelers. Obviously, he is a mere driver!



:rolleyes:
 
Mike Phillips:



That's pretty neat. I've never seen another Plymouth P-15 before. I'm currently typing this in my room above the garage that plays home to a 1946 model ;) .
 
Mike Phillips said:
....... My dad recently found my old Plymouth for sale in Oregon, pretty much in the same shape I sold it in except a dual carburetor system and split exhaust.......
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So when are you going to be picking it up? ;)
 
I have a Green 96 Toy Camry sitting in the shop (washed and clayed already) waiting for attention in the morning. It is one of those cars that has been completely neglected over its eight year life, but, it has tremendous potential for recovery!



It is the wife's car of a (3 time?) Pro Bowler, BTW, so I'm hoping to make the BEST impression, for even more NFL referrals. (I 've done 9 to date.)



I might even have pics...



Jim
 
Not sure what to think about the BMW owner, I can't even begin to imagine letting my paint get gritty.



Mike-nice story on the restoration. I hope I get lucky and find a 1970 LS6 454 Chevelle sitting in some old lady's garage who just wants to get that old car out of there. ;)
 
Jim-your signature should remind us all why you should not get into it with a former comedy club owner! :lol



Glad to see you have a sense of humor about the whole thing!
 
i wonder if my friends would mind if i "stole" their cars for a day? ;)



mike - that's really cool of you to do that.
 
On Mike’s theme of surprise restoration a funny story of a surprise ‘part’ restoration on a friends old car :



About 12 years ago when me and my friends first started to drive / buy cars. One of them had a Astra in this terracotta colour, it was very oxidised but no matter how much stick we gave him he refused to wax or even wash the vehicle.

We saw the car parked up in the street one day and he was nowhere to be seen. I nipped home (as I lived near) and came back with the T-Cut and me and my friend set about polishing a big smiley face on his bonnet.

Needless to say when we meet him next he challenged us about it and we of course denied all knowledge, he did get round to cleaning the rest of the car though !



Go easy on me for the T-Cut, we thought this was the dog’s nuts at the time !
 
hirosh said:
i wonder if my friends would mind if i "stole" their cars for a day? ;)



mike - that's really cool of you to do that.
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I did that once in my youth. I borrowed my6 buddies truck for soomething and thought: "Man this thing needs waxed." When I took it back, he started to yell at me for having it gone so long, but when he saw the wax job, his jaw dropped and he murmered: "I was gonna yell at you but..."
 
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