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Here is mine. She is a WWII Boeing B-29 Superfortress. She is a combat veteran and flew combat missions over Japan. Sometime in the early 1980s she was parked where she sits now. She is o permanent static display at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California. Time hasn't been kind to her...

My church, Christ Church of the Valley in San Dimas, Ca, holds an event called the Toy Store. This event is an opportunity for families struggling financially to come through and select items for their children. In 2015 I came across 20 or so bicycles in the outdoor gardening section of...

I've been blessed to have worked on a number aircraft used as Air Force One. Boeing VC-137 SAM970 Seattle Museum of Flight Boeing VC-137 SAM971, VC-118 and VC-140 Pima Air and Space Museum This aircraft is on display at Castle Air Museum in Atwater, Ca. It is about two hours north...

Preston’s Pride is a World War II era Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that was placed on display near Route 99, in the city of Tulare in Central California in 1958, as a monument to California veterans. Being that she’s bare aluminum, she is subjected to the elements of heat, cold, rain, wind and...

I had never been a fan of gear driven polishers. They tired me out and I felt they wrestled with me the entire time I used them. All that changed when I used my Rupes Mille for the first time!! We used them on a Douglas VC-9C used as Air Force One and a WWII B-17 bomber we polished up...

Recently I lead a team on another Air Force One polishing project. (You can read about it here -https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/118236-air-force-one-shining-part-american-history.html ) We routinely use Rupes polishers. This year, my friend John Purdue, and the team...

I've been shining paint since the early 1980s. I've had my own business shining paint since 1990. I absolutely adore my job. I've been blessed to shine the paint on many amazing things such as most models of the world's exotic supercars, multi-million dollar classics, vintage aircraft and...

I've been blessed with a career I greatly adore. I've detailed some of the world's greatest classics and exotics and historically significant items such as Ronald Reagans Presidential limousine, aircraft used as Air Force One and the Ferdinand Magellan Presidential railcar U.S.#1. Since 2013 I...

You've heard it said it's all in the details. How detailed do you really get when you are cleaning a vehicle? One of my pet peeves is not addressing the Schrader valve stem caps. That's right, I do not like these when they go neglected. Most may think this is insignificant but when you have...

Presidential Railcar US No.1 Like if I didn’t already love my job more than I can put into words……… Our next BIG detail project is here! I have been blessed beyond measure in my detailing career. I have had the rare opportunity of detailing two aircraft used as Air Force one and Ronald...

Bunny is her name. She is a P-51 Mustang. She belongs to the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs California and had just completed a 14 month restoration, I first saw Bunny on her facebook page and she looked like this. I thought if they are going to keep the fuselage bare aluminum I...

[/url] I'll have the honor of demo-ing rotary polishers "buffers" at Detailfest this year!!!! :buffing: For those of you that do not know me I'm Joe and own an auto detailing business based in Arcadia, Ca. I specialize in performing high-end paint correction but I have been known to polish...

Recently we have had the honor of polishing a very special aircraft, a Boeing VC-137B, Special Air Mission 971 or SAM971, formally of the American presidential aircraft fleet. It had been used a handful of times to as "Air Force One" to transport President Eisenhower and President Kennedy in...

I love to detail anything!! I've been blessed to have worked on some pretty cool stuff. If you're doing this as a business the "coolness" factor of what you detail will take you so far. You will have to pull in the $$$$ to stay in business. I have seen businesses die because the business...

You gotta love the leaf blower guy! I just detailed a car then the Leaf blower guy shows up! - YouTube

Witchcraft Revisited - Last year we reconditioned Witchcraft's finish because it was really bad. It was heavily oxidized and chalky. We put about 80 hours into restoring and waxing the finish. You can read about that event here -...

Very cool video about the presidential motorcades and about Ronald Reagan's motorcade in particular. Watch carefully, you might recognize a few faces. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF-dWMybMtY&list=PLD2C57A69DDD18B56&feature=share]Inside the Reagan Library: The Motorcade - YouTube[/video]

We were contacted by a local Honda dealership recently. I was excited because I love polishing Honda paint. The manager explained what they needed polished was not paint but was a fiberglass coated aluminum. HUH?? :confused: We arranged an appointment to meet. This is what I was presented...

God has blessed me with a job that I love. I realized that a lot of the stuff I shine is cool enough that it has a model of it somewhere!! :dblthumb2: I am having too much fun!!

This year we are off to a great start!! Not only is business smoking HOT but we shined some pretty sweet vehicles!! Here are a few of my favorites. 1963 Lincoln. 2014 Lamborghini Aventador 1971 Dino 2005 Porsche Carrera GT 2014 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster 2003 Ferrari...