Training Cars for the 2019 September 3-day Detailing Bootcamp Class

[Mike Phillips]

Training Cars for the 2019 September 3-day Detailing Bootcamp Class

We're right at 4 weeks away from this class. Congratulations to everyone that signed-up for it.

I'll be adding the cars I've confirmed for this class here,



1954 Buick Special Streetrod

In the REAL world, she looks like this,

More pics of the Buick here,

1954 Buick Special - Coating Training Car for September Class








Daily Driver Camaro
Always parked outside - Never washed or taken care of

2018 Hyundai Stinger

Training car for wetsanding

For the wetsanding class we have an actual streetrod. There are ZERO other classes out there were you get to wetsand a real streetrod let along any type of car.

learning the art of wetsanding.


1949 GMC 1/2 Ton Pickup

More to come....

 

[Mike Phillips]

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1954 Ford Fat Fender

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[Mike Phillips]

Here’s another cool car to learn,

Show Car Detailing

1970 Chevelle

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[Mike Phillips]

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Wow!

3-weeks our from the last 3-day Class here at Autogeek and cars for this class are coming out of the woodwork!

1970 Firebird Formula - just being finished from a full restrod!

 

[Rsurfer]

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Wow!

3-weeks our from the last 3-day Class here at Autogeek and cars for this class are coming out of the woodwork!

1970 Firebird Formula - just being finished from a full restrod!

Mike, do you not charge for these training cars? If not, you should.

 

[Mike Phillips]

:updated:


The 1954 Fat Fender Ford has arrived and folks - there's still a LOT of detail work out there to be had. Hard to believe this streetrod was put on display at car shows...


This would have been a GREAT before and after for our TV show Competition Ready. The producer always had us working on multi-million dollar cars in Museums and Man Caves?

This is where the market's at. No problem though, my class will undo years of damage and get this truck COMPETITION READY! :laughing:


Here she is under florescent lights.... doesn't look to bad huh?

Then next shots I'll frame-up the shot so you know where the close-up is looking and bust out my trusty, dusty SCANGRIP Sunmatch Swirl Finder Light.

This is the first car here for next week's 3-day class. I'll have about 10 bitchen cars here like this for the class to learn what I call,

Show Car Detailing


and then a few mundane daily drivers for when I teach,

Production Detailing



For those of you reading this attending this class, (I sent you all an e-mail with the link to this thread), pretty cool car huh?


There are no other classes where you'll use as many tools, pads and products, nor learn as many techniques PLUS work on REAL cool cars. None. Zero. This is it.


See you here next week early on Friday morning.

 

[Mike Phillips]

Mike, do you not charge for these training cars? If not, you should.

No.

It’s a win/win/win/win deal for all involved.


I will admit though there’s a few strong downsides.


Good question.

 

[Mike Phillips]

The yellow Fat Fender Ford and the 1949 GMC Streerod Pickup have arrived for the LAST 3-day Car Detailing Class for 2019!

This GMC is one of our training vehicles for wetsanding

Wetsanding Class in September - The REAL DEAL! No HOODS in this class!

This Fat Fendered F100 looks like it was washed with an SOS pad!

This video I took today and posted to my Facebook page shows the true condition.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=491865231659970

 

[Mike Phillips]

:updated:

The 1954 Buick arrived today.

LOOKS a LOT worse in the sun!

1954 Buick Special - Coating Training Car for September Class

Check out the dash on this beauty!

Wetsanding Class

I took some pictures of the red 1949 GMC to show how bad the paint is, the class is going to wetsand this streetrod pickup. If you scour the Interweb I don't think you find any other class where the students actually wetsand some other guy's streetrod. It's always a nice, easy to sand and buff flat hood.

13 cars in 3 days - There's no other class like this on Planet Earth

By Thursday this garage will be packed with training cars for those that are attending the last 3-day class for 2019.

Class Schedule for 2020


January
Friday, January 24th, Saturday, January 25th and Sunday January 26th - 3-Day Detailing Bootcamp at Autogeek


February
Saturday, February 8th and Sunday, February 9th - Marine 31 2-Day Boat Detailing Class


May
Saturday, May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd - 3-Day Detailing Bootcamp Class here at Autogeek


September
Friday, September 25th, Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th - 3-Day Detailing Bootcamp Class here at Autogeek



At this time there are no roadshow classes scheduled for 2020 - should have caught one when they came around and were in driving distance.




There's ONE Roadshow Classes left for 2019


October

Saturday, October 12th and Sunday, October 13th <-- Info and link to sign-up
Immaculate Paint Protection
4224 Greenfield Road
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18109
Host Website - immaculatepaintprotection.com

 

[Guyb]

Looks like a great line up for the class.

 

[Billy Baldone]

Mike, i am bumping this thread, as I have a black Kia Stinger coming Thursday for a 2 year ceramic. I did a test spot with the customer. We agreed on a one step correction. When wiping off the compound, I noticed the paint scratched super easy. I am just confirming that this paint is super soft??? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mike Phillips]

Mike, i am bumping this thread, as I have a black Kia Stinger coming Thursday for a 2 year ceramic.

I did a test spot with the customer. We agreed on a one step correction.

When wiping off the compound, I noticed the paint scratched super easy. I am just confirming that this paint is super soft???

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

For those reading this into the future - installing a coating on soft paint is probably one of the hardest things there is to do when it comes to paint correction.


Why?

Because soft paint scratches easily. Part of installing a coating includes CHEMICALLY STRIPPING THE PAINT using some type of solvent. Now follow me - solvents are NOT great lubricants. Drain the motor oil out of the engine in your car and replace it with IPA and see how long the motor lasts?:


Here's my advice,

First - Update the customer. See if they would rather stick with a traditional sealant instead of a coating. If yes, then machine buff with BF One Step and top with BF BlackIce. Super simple and works great on soft paints.


If the customer is set on a ceramic coating - then take inventory of your microfiber towels. Make sure you have plenty of soft UN-CONTAMINATED microfiber towels. It's the towel that you're going to wipe-over the paint with a solvent and it is the towel that puts the scratches into the paint - not the solvent.


Besides that - consider one of the new primers on the market. With this type of product you can skip the chemical stripping step and go right to the coating.

 

[Mike Phillips]

Here's a recent review I did for the new Nano Surface Primers from Dr. Beasley's.


Review: Dr Beasley's Nano Surface Primers and 1201 Paint Coating - 1947 Dodge Panel Delivery Streetrod

I don't know if you have to use the Dr. Beasley's coatings after using the Dr. Beasley's NSP products. I don't know for sure. My guess is you can.

There are also other "primers" on the market.


Again - you're still going to need super clean and soft microfiber towels to wipe off the polish before going to the coating.


Hope that helps...

 

[Billy Baldone]

Thank you Mike. I will order up some Dr Beasley's to have on hand. Will I be better off to do a quick polish step with CarPro Essence, as it is all I have on hand, before I coat the car?

 

[Mike Phillips]

Thank you Mike. I will order up some Dr Beasley's to have on hand.

Will I be better off to do a quick polish step with CarPro Essence, as it is all I have on hand, before I coat the car?

I would try it. I have not used it for a while - best thing to do though would be a Test Spot.


Looking forward to your follow-up.