Mike Phillips
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2014 Car Review - Autogeek's Detailing Boot Camp Cars!
My passion is and has always been for detailing what I simply call,
Special Interest Vehicles
A Special Interest Vehicle, or SIV doesn't have to be an old car, or a classic, or a muscle car, streetrod or exotic. It can be any of these types of cars but the actual way I define a special interest vehicle goes like this,
When walking through a parking lot, if a car makes you turn your head twice, or better yet, veer out of your normal path of travel and actually walk over to the car in question so you can check it out up close... chances are, this car qualifies as a special interest vehicle.
I find working on cool and interesting cars a lot more rewarding and memorable. I also think the majority of the people that attend our detailing classes will think and feel the same way.
So instead of acquiring normal, every day, daily drivers for training purposes, I put a lot of energy into networking with local car guys that I've earned their trust and do my best to obtain special interest vehicles for our classes.
And history has proven that I'm right and that is the people that attend my classes love the experience of not just learning the widest selection of types of tools out of any detailing class available in the world, but to do so on these unique and interesting cars. Of course, I always include a few regular daily drivers for topics like Production Detailing and Interior Detailing, etc.
Class cars for 2014
Below are the cars used for the 2014 Detailing Boot Camp Classes plus the links to the write-ups showing the cars being worked on in our classes. I'm sorry to say that not ever car gets a full write-up showing the before, during and after pictures as processing the volume of pictures taken at our classes is very time intensive. But in all the threads there will be a good collection of pictures for at least some of the cars that have been through our classes.
Pictures: Autogeek Detailing Class - January 2014
1956 Nomad Bel Air
This is a numbers matching, all original 1956 Chevrolet Nomad. The paint is single stage lacquer and filled with swirls and scratches. It has won first place in its class at the All Chevy's Winter Nationals for 7 years in a row and that is with swirled out paint.
We used this Nomad to teach the class the easiest and simplest tool used for machine polishing, the Porter Cable 7424XP.
You can see just how bad the paint started out in this article.
1956 Chevy Bel Air Nomad - January Detailing Boot Camp Class Car
1970 El Camino
This is a fire breathing bad azz 635 cubic inch Big Block Chevy powered muscle car that we used the Rupes Bigfoot polishers, pads and products to de-swirl and create a perfect finish for the application of the Pinnacle Black Label Diamond Paint Coating which gives paint that glassy look.
1947 Ford Convertible Streetrod
This car was used to teach the techniques for using the Cyclo Polisher to remove overspray paint, swirls and scratches.
2006 Ford Expedition
We used this to learn how to chemically decontaminate paint using Iron X and then how to do production detailing using a one-step cleaner/wax.
My passion is and has always been for detailing what I simply call,
Special Interest Vehicles
A Special Interest Vehicle, or SIV doesn't have to be an old car, or a classic, or a muscle car, streetrod or exotic. It can be any of these types of cars but the actual way I define a special interest vehicle goes like this,
When walking through a parking lot, if a car makes you turn your head twice, or better yet, veer out of your normal path of travel and actually walk over to the car in question so you can check it out up close... chances are, this car qualifies as a special interest vehicle.
I find working on cool and interesting cars a lot more rewarding and memorable. I also think the majority of the people that attend our detailing classes will think and feel the same way.
So instead of acquiring normal, every day, daily drivers for training purposes, I put a lot of energy into networking with local car guys that I've earned their trust and do my best to obtain special interest vehicles for our classes.
And history has proven that I'm right and that is the people that attend my classes love the experience of not just learning the widest selection of types of tools out of any detailing class available in the world, but to do so on these unique and interesting cars. Of course, I always include a few regular daily drivers for topics like Production Detailing and Interior Detailing, etc.
Class cars for 2014
Below are the cars used for the 2014 Detailing Boot Camp Classes plus the links to the write-ups showing the cars being worked on in our classes. I'm sorry to say that not ever car gets a full write-up showing the before, during and after pictures as processing the volume of pictures taken at our classes is very time intensive. But in all the threads there will be a good collection of pictures for at least some of the cars that have been through our classes.
Pictures: Autogeek Detailing Class - January 2014
1956 Nomad Bel Air
This is a numbers matching, all original 1956 Chevrolet Nomad. The paint is single stage lacquer and filled with swirls and scratches. It has won first place in its class at the All Chevy's Winter Nationals for 7 years in a row and that is with swirled out paint.
We used this Nomad to teach the class the easiest and simplest tool used for machine polishing, the Porter Cable 7424XP.
You can see just how bad the paint started out in this article.
1956 Chevy Bel Air Nomad - January Detailing Boot Camp Class Car
1970 El Camino
This is a fire breathing bad azz 635 cubic inch Big Block Chevy powered muscle car that we used the Rupes Bigfoot polishers, pads and products to de-swirl and create a perfect finish for the application of the Pinnacle Black Label Diamond Paint Coating which gives paint that glassy look.
1947 Ford Convertible Streetrod
This car was used to teach the techniques for using the Cyclo Polisher to remove overspray paint, swirls and scratches.
2006 Ford Expedition
We used this to learn how to chemically decontaminate paint using Iron X and then how to do production detailing using a one-step cleaner/wax.
