Pictures: Autogeek at the 6th Annual Palm City Fall Fest Car Show!

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Pictures: Autogeek at the 6th Annual Palm City Fall Fest Car Show!

Trey, Bobby and I will be manning the Autogeek Booth at this car show tomorrow from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

If you're local please stop by and say hi!

Palm City Fall Fest at the Lance Corporal Justin J. Wilson Memorial Park

See you there!


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It looks like it's going to be beautiful weather and a perfect day for this show!

If you're local, swing on by and say hi!


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Awesome car show this last Saturday in Palm City, Mike Searle and his team really did a great job of organizing this event....

Here's a few pictures from the show....



Mike's sweet 1955 Chevy Sedan Deliver - This is an Autogeek detail project.

1955 Chevy & 1947 Buick Slantback - Show Car Makeover! - Pictures & Videos

1964 Pontiac Catalina - Might be a 63 or 65 I'm just guessing here....

Sam Macia's 1956 Chevy Bel Air - This will be a future Autogeek project car as we're going to prep it for a Super Chevy show in 2015

Alex Sznurkowski's 1957 Chevy Nomad
This car has normal wear-n-tear swirls and scratches as this is a regular driver for Alex. Alex is going to let me use this for a very special project coming up real fast.

Oldsmobile 442
I'm guessing a 1964 or 1965

1970 Dodge Challenger RT

Earl's 1940 Ford Panel Delivery
This is a recent Autogeek Detail Project. We recently removed all the swirls and scratches out of this streetrod and shortly after that Earl has it customized to advertise his business. These old panel deliveries are some of the best advertising bang you can get for your buck.


Pictures: 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery - Secret Project

Here's what it looked like before the Autogeek Extreme Makeover...

And after.....

All the before and after pictures can be found here...

Pictures: 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery - Secret Project



This very beautiful 1956 Pontiac Star Chief Convertible also belongs to Earl the Plumber and it too is an Autogeek Detail Project Car.

1956 Pontiac Star Chief Convertible


Here's Bob checking out Earl's new addition to his car collection...

The Star Chief too started out pretty rough till we did an extreme makeover on it...

1949 Pontiac Road Chief Convertible
This belongs to my buddy Mike Stowe and like all his streetrods the build quality of the car is just over the top.

I spoke with Mike about using this car for a future project and of course he said yes!

Light Swirls & Scratches
Over time, even show cars like Mike's that are well taken care of will get a build up of swirls and scratches so we're going to do what I call a "Show Car Makeover" which is different than and "Extreme Makeover" in that the paint is not as bad as the cars we do the extreme makeovers to. Here's the deal though... you still do 2-3 very meticulous machine buffing steps to recreate that just out of the paint booth fresh appearance.

We worked on one of Mike's other cars almost 3 years ago now....

1936 Ford Roadster - Show Car Makeover

 

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I think I taught my millionth car guy how to use a DA Polisher while we are the show....

A little hands-on training goes a long way to flatten out the learning curve....

Buffing like a pro!

Seriously, not sure if he was really the millionth person but there's been a few over the years.

This gentleman asked me what I would charge to buff out his muscle car, a 1971 or 1972 Plymouth Duster with the 340 Wedge engine.

This isn't his car but this is what his car looks like...

He originally asked me about what can be used to bring matte finishes back to life, here's what his hood looks like....

Then our conversation evolved to car detailing and specifically how to machine polish paint without burring through the paint or putting swirls into the paint and that turned into a lesson on how to use the Porter Cable 7424XP.



If any of my local car buddies knows the owner of this car, have him get a hold of me...


1-800-869-3011 x206


Thanks,


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Re: Autogeek at the 6th Annual Palm City Fall Fest Car Show!

Outstanding Mike! Looks like you had a great time!

Thanks for sharing pictures!

 

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More.....

Boy Scouts are Car Guys too!
Christopher was part of Troop 840 that visited us at our last Cars & Coffee here,

Boy Scouts at Autogeek!

Future Project Camaro
I spoke with the owner about the swirls in the paint on his beautiful Camaro and he's open to bringing his Camaro to Autogeek for special project I have coming up real fast.

I believe this is a Mercedes-Benz GLK350 I kind of like his big brother the ML400
(with Boggers of course)

 

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Big Yellow Banana - 1956 Nomad Detailing Project Car



I met Alex, the owner of this beautiful 1956 bright yellow Nomad at our last Cars & Coffee show and talked to him about using it for a special project. He said "yes" as the by-product of the project is a fully polished to the hilt paint job.

I didn't have time at the Cars & Coffee show to get any pictures showing the current condition of the paint. So at the Palm City Fall Fest Car Show the opportunity presented itself and I have the swirl shots in the sun.

1956 Chevrolet Nomad

This Nomad has a 350 small block to push it down the road...

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This is a Triple Black 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible. Triple black means it has a black interior, black top and black exterior.

I met the owner at the Palm City Fall Fest car show after about a half a dozen guys told me about the horrible swirls in the paint. Sad thing is he just had his car "detailed".


1963 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible

 

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This was rather unique and interesting....

Believe it or not.... the old Jeep Wagoner's are making a comeback in popularity....

This was a boattail something or rather... might be a Cord or an Austin? I looked the paint over pretty good and it's getting kind of dull. It's due for a professional paint polishing job.

Classic Triumph Spitfire!

Autogeek Detail Project
This Model A Police Car was actually the demonstration car for a class we held for the staff of the Elliot Museum just about one year ago...

How To Detail Museum Cars, Classics & Antiques


In the class I demonstrated on a few places to teach the techniques for both hand and machine polishing and then the guys at the Museum finished the rest of the car and I must say I was impressed with their results.

This is a late model El Camino, it had some pretty bad holograms in the paint....

Tried to locate the owner of this truck but to no avail....

 

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1965 Corvette Swirled to Perfection!


I met John, the owner of this 1965 Corvette at the Palm City Fall Fest and sometime in the near future this car is going to pay a visit to Autogeek's Show Car Garage!

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1964 Pontiac Catalina - Autogeek Project Car

I buffed this car out Chemical Guys Black Wax was introduced back in November of 2012, so over 2 years ago and it still looks great!

Testing Out Chemical Guys Black Wax - 1964 BLACK Catalina

Here it is right after I did a full buff-out....

You'll also see the above car on page 26 of my new how-to book in the section that shares how to buff out large classics and muscle cars so you don't work backwards.


How to use the Flex 3401 Dual Action Orbital Polisher


And I used the Flex 3401 to restore the paint on this car and the techniques I used are all shared in the how-to book.


Before

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some nice cars there, ill be back down for another Thursday night session soon.

 

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some nice cars there,

South Florida has a lot of car guys and a lot of high quality cars...

I counted at least 6 cars at this show that have been through one of our programs...

ill be back down for another Thursday night session soon.

You're always welcome Vargas... this live broadcast event is going to be a pretty cool project....

Sign-up: Special Guest to be announced!

 

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1940 Packard Convertible Streetrod

One last car at this show that I took pictures of and has a past with Autogeek and also a fture....

This is a 1940 Packard Convertible Streetrod. It looks stock and it's very ornate styling lends itself to making you think it's all original but under the hood is a 350 Small Block Chevy with a Turbo 350 to push it down the road.

This streetrod has a fresh paint job, sometime within the last year and while the paint job itself looks pretty good the paint is filled with holograms and swirls.

Besides having massive swirls....

Rotary Buffer Holograms
This streetrod has been buffed out and finished out using only a rotary buffer and it has holograms.

They're kind of hard to see so I've outlined them in the below picture.

Look at the below picture and then the picture above and you'll see the "lines" which are holograms and indicate the direction the rotary buffer was moved over the paint.

The car has a very beautiful interior and dash. The Lokar Shifter is a dead give-away there's an automatic transmission under the floor.

 

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So I've seen this 1940 Packard a few times now at local car shows and there was something about it.... I knew I had seen this car before but couldn't quite put my finger on it....

Then I remembered... right after Vincent purchased this streetrod someone sent him to Autogeek to see if the older single stage paint job that was on it when he bought it could be saved.

I tried to save it but to no avail... sometimes paint is just too far gone that the pigments become unstable and nothing you pour out of a bottle or scoop out of a can from ANY company will fix it.

I call this,

The point of no return

And it's category #12 of paint conditions in my how-to book, The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine.


Here's the thread and the pictures from almost one year ago....


Past the point of No Return - Some paint just cannot be saved

Unstable and Past the Point of No Return
After I machine polished and then rubbed the paint down with multiple applications of Meguiar's #7 the whiteness in the paint could not be removed. This is a sign the pigments are so old and overexposed to the sun that they have become unstable.

So good to see Vincent had it repainted.... sorry to see it has swirls in the paint but I know a place where it can be fixed.


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1965 Corvette Swirled to Perfection!


I met John, the owner of this 1965 Corvette at the Palm City Fall Fest and sometime in the near future this car is going to pay a visit to Autogeek's Show Car Garage!

WOW!


--> 4 years later I get a call from John the owner of this 1965 Corvette!


John heard from other members in the Stuart Corvette Club I was looking for some cars for my September 3-day Boot Camp Class and has kindly offered to let us de-swirl his otherwise beautiful Corvette!


Done deal.

If you're attending the 3-day class at the end of September, here's just one of the cool cars you'll be working on.