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the customer just bought the car from a friend who had it for several years but wasnt using it.

on short notice, we were able to give him exactly what he was looking for & more. there was a hot rod car meet tonight that he wanted to attend as well as a show on sunday. i didnt want to give up the job so i booked him anyway & put him off for the end of the day. i dont go out on sat nights so it doesnt bother me to stay late to finish up a car. we were done with a little before 8pm. he had just enough time to cruise through town & get to his car meet on time.

we decided just a nice polish would be done to bring up the shine of the red paint. the whole car was repainted but im not sure how recent that was. not much paint bled onto my polishing pad. there are still light swirls on the paint but the job didn't call for any compounding. i wish it did though or i wouldve been able to make this red paint even brighter than it did after the polish.

the customer was really happy with the job & thats all that matters.

i took a few pics before pulling it to the back to wash & clay. the car had light dust, it wasn't too dirty. there was a lot of dried up old wax in all of the moldings & name plate on the trunk. i had to go at it with a tooth pick & follow that up with a q-tip. i used a couple of 1" paint brushes to dig out the dried up wax from the rest of the car.

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almost ready to polish.
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the motor is in the back. the trunk is in the front, under the hood. theres these vents at the top of the trunk. i guess thats to cool down the engine bay. i didn't take any pics of the motor.
i dont like taking pics of dirty things unless i detail them afterwords.

when i looked under the hood all that was found was a motor & a spare tire wedged up in the far right corner of the engine bay. it was mounted almost on top of the motor.

i wonder why they didnt place it in the trunk. theres plenty of space under the hood for the tire & plenty of room around it for storage. the trunk is pretty big, i think its bigger than the engine bay.

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johnny & humberto cleaning the interior.
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the car was all ready for me to polish. johnny & humberto were almost finished with the interior. they can soon move out of my way & start working on other cars that were in the shop.

quick shot of henny after destroying her soccer ball.
this is my fav shot of the set of pictures for this writeup lol.
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some red paint bled onto my pad. it wasnt too bad at all, ive seen worse.
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convertible plastic window came out like shit, no need to lie, im an honest guy =)
there was over spray on the inside of the window & on the outside there were many scratches. i wasnt looking for perfection but i think i improved the clarity a little bit. nothing much i could do with this one, im upset about this but what can i do?

cleaner first, then the polish.
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after, well sorta.
ehh...the pic made it look better than it actually came out =(
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getting her ready fir final presentation. i gave Pete a call & told him to come on over, ill be done with this one in about 15 more mins.

Pete was very happy when he came to pick up his car.
his expectations were exceeded & his face was glowing!

he happens to be an old customer of mine from my previous shop. he remembered me from when i detailed his red suburban a few years ago. im glad he remembered me & im glad to have him back in the new shop.
the old customers always find me =)

combo of lots of old wax & perhaps some fresh wax from what we just applied. some of the edges you can see the foam tape used to keep the badge on the car. the letters are a little beaten up but i made them look 1,000 times better! at least theres no more dried up wax in the cracks!

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FINAL PICS BEFORE TONIGHTS HOT ROD CLASSIC CAR MEET
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shot of the rear. nothing special going on in this pic.
i just wanted to show everyone what the car looked like from the back.
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Greek john the mechanic & his spanish friend the iron welder, i forgot his name...
they came back here to check the car out before it left.

i was going for that cool "garage at night pic" my camera takes crappy pics at night. its time for an upgrade.

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its 10:41pm & its time i go home. i need to rest up for monday.
it looks like were going to have another crazy busy week & i cant wait =)

thanks for taking the time to read till the end.

questions & comments are welcomed.

-Andrew