7 Cars, 3000 Square Foot Garage, 40 pictures, I'M IN HEAVEN

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ScubaStevo

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Well, one of my clients moved down south, heck, he even has his Manitoba plate on his daily sebring! Anyways, he flew me down to work on his vehicles after the move. His new garage is just amazing, 3000 square feet of show space, and then another 2000 sq ft. in shop/wash bay area, and last but not least, he has a 500 sqft. office added on. You should see the house. :woohoo: Honestly, I'm not 100% on the vehicles, and the models/year, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of it.



Total time: 3 days

Charge: >2000 + travel fees



8 vehicles in total, plus his snow mobile and his wife's yard transport.

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First: 2004 Dodge Ram Rumble Bee

He uses it to pull his trailer and such. Daily driver in the winter up here, but no longer.

Around 40,000km.

Process: 6 stage polish topped with souveran



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Wife's beater:

Sythetic cut

Power Cut

50/50 Polish Cleaner

Mothers Carnuba



Carpets were done later on, she was going out for some sort of shopping fiasco.

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#3: Little Red Express Truck

Power cut plus x3

50/50 Cleaner polish

Parade Wipe Down

Klasse AIO

Klasse SG



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#4:Snowmobile 1996

4000 miles on it.

Power cut

GS1

Souveran

5 hours



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#5: Ford Truck



GS1

Klasse AIO

Klasse SG



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#5: Mopar Muscle



XP Synthetic

Power Cut Plus X3

50/50 Cleaner Polish

Awesome Gloss

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#6: His Drag Car : 700 HP! 10 flat in the quater



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#7: 1966 Charger Numbers Matching



Wetsanded with 3000 grit for minor orange peelage.

XP Compound

Power Cut Plus

GS1

Owner's Zaino Collection



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#8: Inherited it from his friend whom passed away.



Just wiped it down, my insurance won't cover this thing! lol

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Stevo, that's some crazy garage! When you say "down south" does that mean southern Canada, or further? What is with the metal walls and ceiling? Is that a metal building, a basement, what?
 
ScubaStevo said:
he flew me down to work on his vehicles after the move.



Total time: 3 days



Charge: >2000 + travel fees



8 vehicles in total, plus his snow mobile and his wife's yard transport.



Process: 6 stage polish topped with souveran



Wetsanded with 3000 grit for minor orange peelage.

XP Compound

Power Cut Plus



Just wiped it down, my insurance won't cover this thing!
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Nice work on some nice vehicles!



Was it $2000 per vehicle or $2000 for 8 vehicles = $250 each? That's either really good or really cheap (for all the work put into each one e.g. heavy compounding / wet sanding / orange peel removal). $2000 for 3 days worth of work is great, but you did ALOT of work on ALOT of vehicles.
 
Setec - He's down in the states now. It is a metal garage with a brick exterior.



David - I'm in university, and I don't need a whole bunch of profit to make it by. I'll take this over my normal 60 hour school week, and then 45 hour a week job any day.
 
cajunfirehawk said:
Sorry, Noob question:

What is Parade Wipe Down ??
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Its a quick detailer. I had some product clumping issues, but it was removing the compounding haze so well that I didn't want to switch it up. I really should have switched, but it was one of the last ones I was doing and wasn't too concerned about saving my pads.



BTW, I went through 27 pads ( wool, cut, polish and finishing), a gallon of degreaser on the undercarrages, 5 liters of dress it right and several bottles of 50/50 cleaner polish (This stuff if amazing!))



Total job time was around 48 hours. Didn't get much sleep. :cry:
 
OH! By the way, if anyone ever has a job that needs white walls cleaned, I found that nothing worked as good as SOS pads, ammonia based glass cleaner, and some 'drywash' metal polish.



As you can tell, they look great.
 
Got it. I'm sure it was an awsome experience. I'd be blessed to have the opportunity like you did. Sorry if my post offended you. I commend you for using all those AM compounds - powerful stuff.



Ever try AM Magnificant on white walls?
 
tdekany said:
I have to call you Todd Jr from now on :D:D:D:D



Excellent details and very nice camera work as well. What do you use?
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Thanks man! I used my Canon S1 IS, full manual settings. I found that changing the exposure was crusial to getting a decent shop with all the fluorescents. Nothing more than alittle bit of photoshop levels and sharpening filters and a resize to the shown resolution.



David Fermani: No I haven't used that. I find that some abrasives are required to get them white. I love automagic and have come to be very good with working with them. I work full time as a reconditioning manager for a dealership and though its just a dealership, I put out some decent polish jobs on the lots vehicles. Obviously nothing to these lengths, but I have gotten pretty darn good at wetsanding out scratches. Everything read around 90-150 microns on the depth gauge, so I had plenty room to spare. However, the early 1900s truck had...10 :wall



I should mention that the owner has a Cuda in storage till his 426 crate hemi comes in... and than he is one of 1600 people to get the first challanger's off the assembly line from dodge! He said he's having me come down to do the dealer prep on it, so I'm ecstatic. :)
 
ScubaStevo- Nice work, and that really *is* a great batch of cars in a wonderful garage. I really like the ceiling, oughta stay nice and clean.
 
This Little Red truck, wasn't that the one which was sold at January's Barret Jackson??



I want a garage like that!!
 
Great job on a great set of cars/trucks. The Ford just looks out of place -- but it's still very nice. I love the old Mopars.



AndyA6,



The Lil Red was produced by Dodge in '78 & '79. I doubt it was this actual one sold at Barret Jackson? The one in this pic is the good one: '78. The 79s added Cats, unleaded, and 85 MPH speedo:)
 
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