1966 Shelby Cobra replica detail

wgilles

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I'm going to start by saying...this was a CHALLENGE :mad: Not only because this car has lots of curves and narrow body lines, but because the paint was insanely hard to work with. For the swirl correction I tried the follow products:

XMT #3, XMT #4, Meg's Swirl Remover 2.0 and Wolfgang TSR 3.0 with no effect. After all this I talked with my Dad who gave me a product called "Presta Chroma 1500" which worked like a dream. After doing some research on it I found it is very similar to Meg's #105, so I picked a bottle up because I had very little of the Presta.

The 105 worked great, however I still had to go over some spots twice to get the swirls out (Thank god this car doesn't have a roof).

I took the usual steps for this car...a very careful wash and dry, clay bar and swirl correction followed by XMT 360 and my Dodo Juice Homebrew wax I won here last week! (Thanks again Autogeek!!!)

Here is a before shot of the car and some before/after shots of the swirls

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Before
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After
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After
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After
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As you can see from the photos, the car was "taken care of" just not correctly.

After 5.5 days and close to 30 hours of work, I finally rolled the car out into the sun to see if my hard work had paid off.

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And oh boy did it!! Here are some more shots of the final product

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Even the bugs couldn't resist!!
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The owner requested I didn't detail the engine bay, but I took a photo anyway when I had the hood open
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I even got a ride from the very happy owner!
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Although this was such a challenge, it really paid off, as the hard jobs usually do. :buffing:

I want to thank Autogeek again for the contest that allowed me to win the Dodo Juice homebrew kit. I really enjoyed the wax and it put an amazing shine on the Cobra! :dblthumb2:
 
Great job and SWEET Car :drool:

Thank you!

Wow absolutely stunning work. The paint looks gorgeous!

Thanks, it really came out nice. It got back the reflection it needed

Great work - excellent photography! :drool:

Thanks, I try haha :rockon

Bravo work there!:rockon

Thank you

Good job! Glad it came out so nice after all that work!

Me too, I was nervous for a while.
 
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