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I get a call from a new customer who was referred to me by a local Ft.Lauderdale Corvette dealer asking me to revive his vette.
He's in town for the next few years from Georgia, to install a new wireless network.
Anyway, he tells me he had an identical vette that he wrecked and he picked up this one so he could use all the old parts from the wrecked one if he needed to.
This is his daily driver that he takes to the jobsites and it's pretty obvious that he doesn't take good care of the vehicle at all.
There were several spots were you could see the car had been bumped into something and overall the paint was pretty severly swirled .
It doesn't help either that it's parked everyday in a carport right on the intracoastal with the seabreeze all over it.
It became apparent from the test spot i did that it would not be an easy task to bring this paint back.
I attacked it with a variety of combinations, from menz PG with a wool buffing pad, wool polishing pad to 3M withe and black pad with hi temp extra cut, magnum and smooth cut polishes.
I went back and forth with so many different combos that it's hard to recall exactly what i did and in what order.
some sort of paint rubbed off on the door
Some of these pics were taken just after the compounding stage.
A stubborn spot on the hood
By the end of the day the usual thunderstorms had rolled in to the west of me, severly blocking the sun.
He's in town for the next few years from Georgia, to install a new wireless network.
Anyway, he tells me he had an identical vette that he wrecked and he picked up this one so he could use all the old parts from the wrecked one if he needed to.
This is his daily driver that he takes to the jobsites and it's pretty obvious that he doesn't take good care of the vehicle at all.
There were several spots were you could see the car had been bumped into something and overall the paint was pretty severly swirled .
It doesn't help either that it's parked everyday in a carport right on the intracoastal with the seabreeze all over it.
It became apparent from the test spot i did that it would not be an easy task to bring this paint back.
I attacked it with a variety of combinations, from menz PG with a wool buffing pad, wool polishing pad to 3M withe and black pad with hi temp extra cut, magnum and smooth cut polishes.
I went back and forth with so many different combos that it's hard to recall exactly what i did and in what order.
some sort of paint rubbed off on the door
Some of these pics were taken just after the compounding stage.
A stubborn spot on the hood
By the end of the day the usual thunderstorms had rolled in to the west of me, severly blocking the sun.
