Todays victim was a C4S in Basalt Black. A great color, so much nicer than plain black! The paint wasn't too bad but it had its share of mainly marring from washing and drying. The driver side rear quarter panel is a repaint but polished out fairly easy. Interior was in pretty good shape, only a few carpet stains and most of the dirt was on the driver side. Doesn't look like too many passengers ride in this one. We started the paint correction process with wool pads, and 2 new beta samples of Optimums Polish and Compound. Then down to a LC white polishing pad and FPII with a black finishing pad. The final step was done with the Metabo and a dynabrade, 100ppi white pad and FPII. Victoria's Concours and their new beauty wax were lathered on by hand application. The Concours is easy on as is their new wax they sent Ron to test out but the new wax removes with very light pressure while the Concours takes a bit more effort. Nice gloss and wetness added, can't say which gives a better look just yet......but both are sure beautiful. OK, now for a few pictures. Here is the hood after washing and it's not a pretty sight. I sure hope the cars owner takes better care of it now. This is a shot of the lower rear quarter panel area just behind the rear wheels. It gets all the dirt and many people simply miss this area when detailing. It also looks as if the pipes have never been properly cleaned and polished. The cleaning begins in the lower panels for me because I SIMPLY HATE doing front and rear bumper areas so I get them out of the way first. I used GR-40 with stiff small brush and then dressed with Optimum's Protectant +. The pipes were cleaned first with English Custom's Restore and then with their Custom Blend. Now we move on to the engine area......and a good number of water spots. I used here Optimums soon to be released hard water spot remover. It worked like a charm in removing the spots and I then hand rubbed the area down with Poli-Seal. Dressed the engine and then some OCW to clean up the over spray. More To Come:
Oooh that looks good, man those vents look so cool, never knew they even had vents down there Hey Anthony quick question, what do you look like? Are you the guy with the long hair? I think I have you confused with someone else? Just wondering that's all. Thank you for sharing with us, you get to play with some wicked vehicles buddy, but seeing your results you deserve to have such vehicles :worship2: well done.
Hey thanks Nica, appreciate the comments. Yes I am the guy with the long hair BUT I recently got it cut so it's not that long anymore :shrug: Thanks Zoom and Pat also! Anthony
Oh okay so I'm not confusing you with another person, good...you cut it really why? It was really long on the last video I saw of you using ONR. Man that must have taken years to grow.
Well, sadly as I get older it's......dare I say.....getting thinner?!:shakehead::shrug: My hair grows fairly fast so what I would do is grow it out and then cut about 10 inches off and donate it to Locks Of Love, then grow it back out again. Well I think those days are over so now I keep it right at my shoulders, it's all good Thanks again for the kind words people. Anthony
Oh, well such is life huh that's why it's good to enjoy things as they come to you. You know what they say, what goes up must come down. No biggie though, such is life eace:
Anthony..great work there, bud. I always enjoy seeing your work and reading your write-ups. Thanks for taking the time. You are fortunate in the caliber of cars you get to work on.
