Good Friday the 13th

[Mantilgh]

I had a good day, and that even included doing a vomit clean up job. That was on a 10 year old car that was really well maintained. It was so clean it took me an hour less than I quoted. From there I went to detail a heavily modified 80's Corvette the was just purchased by the customer.

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The car was just dropped off the day before and was resonablely clean from its auction prep. Just lots of hand prints and smears from being pushed around. There were a few grease spots here and there on the carpets and most of the interior vinyl/leather had a film of dirt on it. The aluminum wheels were a little dull, and the paint had a lot of swirls. Some deep, but mostly lighter from the looks of it.

The car also came with a good story. Supposedly the previous owner received a phone call from the police while on vacation. His fifteen year old son had been clocked out joyriding in this car while doing almost 150mph. To add to insult to injury, the motor needed a bit of work after his extended high rpm highway cruise, and a new set of tires were needed because the police used spike strips to stop the vehicle. Luckily, it did not cause the car to crash! The car was repaired, and put up for auction with no reserve.
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I was nice to work on something more exciting than a minivan or 10 year old family sedan for a change, of course he was a car guy so we got to BS a little too.

More pics to come, maybe.

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[Mantilgh]

I did a test spot on the rear deck. First with a white LC flat pad and Poly-Seal, then Compound II with an orange pad followed up with the Poli-Seal.

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[Mantilgh]

It was funny, everybody and their brother from the neighborhood was stopping by to check out his new ride. After I finished the interior, his 17 yr old neighbor showed up on a pit bike and was all over the car. The next thing we know he's sitting in the drivers seat, muddy boots and all. We didn't realize until after he left, but he made the carpets superficially more dirty than they were to start.

The motor is a 454 bored out to somewhere close to 502. No juice. I believe they said the cars best pass with the same type tire ran around 9.6.

Customer also gave me a can of fw1 cleaner wax spray. He just raved about it. He said he used to own a paving company, and would give this to his guys to touch up their work vehicles. He said they could drive through "the tack", then just use this as a spray and wipe and the tar would just wipe away. He said it also works great on track rubber.

Other funny things; he asked what I waxed with after a wash with McKee's 37 Rinse Free Wash & Wax, thought the color and paint on my 00' Jeep was amazing, thought the interior was stock

 

[GSKR]

It was funny, everybody and their brother from the neighborhood was stopping by to check out his new ride. After I finished the interior, his 17 yr old neighbor showed up on a pit bike and was all over the car. The next thing we know he's sitting in the drivers seat, muddy boots and all. We didn't realize until after he left, but he made the carpets superficially more dirty than they were to start.

The motor is a 454 bored out to somewhere close to 502. No juice. I believe they said the cars best pass with the same type tire ran around 9.6.

Customer also gave me a can of fw1 cleaner wax spray. He just raved about it. He said he used to own a paving company, and would give this to his guys to touch up their work vehicles. He said they could drive through "the tack", then just use this as a spray and wipe and the tar would just wipe away. He said it also works great on track rubber.

Other funny things; he asked what I waxed with after a wash with McKee's 37 Rinse Free Wash & Wax, thought the color and paint on my 00' Jeep was amazing, thought the interior was stock

very nice work.

 

[Mantilgh]

I did another car for him the other day, apparently he buys and flips them. He said he did well with the Corvette sale. This time it was a heavily modified 88 Firebird, with supposedly 700 hp.

I'll see if I can post a pic or two with Tapatalk.

 

[Mantilgh]

Overspray or something on the glass.

Paint wasn't too bad except for the fenders. Bad mechanics!

It had some bad dry wipe down scratches, really bad on the rear bumper.

Ha! Rear seats, no belts!!!

No after pics. Nothing too crazy done, just some spot correction and a AIO.

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[Mantilgh]

The story on this one was it was bought a shipped from out west.

Pick your shipper wisely!

This was supposed to shipped in an enclosed trailer. This ended up riding exposed through some nasty inclement weather during its trip. It arrived salt stained and very dirty. Arrived a day late, late Thanksgiving day, and was arranged on the trailer with two dead cars behind it. The purchaser was not happy