Envious Detailing: 1977 Ferrari 308GTB

[Envious Eric]

Upon arrival, it was fairly obvious that it had not been cared for properly (two other owners). oxidation, road rash, scratches, swirl marks galore, and some clearing in a few areas brought down the appearance standards of the car! With it being original paint, I only wanted to go so far and leave some of the deeper defects. I put the car at about 90-95% based on the starting condition of the paint! 25K miles on the car only, but time has taken its toll as well!!!



Here are some sun shots on the starting day...there was ZERO sun when I finished the car, so I will have to go back to get some after sun shots at a later date.

 

[Envious Eric]

This is one point where I stopped in the middle to take some direct before and afters of the same spot...I get in a groove and dont like to stop.

before:

Afters:

under the side mirror:

before:

afters:

Rear panel behind the door:

Here are the afters with halogens/LED in the garage:

 

[Envious Eric]

"the car was kind of hard to drive with all the gloss coming off the hood" - owner said after we drove it to the afters picture location.



Afters outside under cloudy conditions:



First pull out from the garage:

Thanks for looking, comments welcomed!



Eric

 

[RaskyR1]

Car turned out great Eric! Nice work! :bigups





What process did you use on her?

 

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

Nice work!

 

[Envious Eric]

oh yeah....



process was the following

wash with ONR

clay with megs blue and last touch

wash with ONR

dry with exceldetail WW towels

tires with CG extreme wet

wheels cleaned with p21s and EZdetail brush, sealed with M21

windows with megs detailer glass cleaner

paint received 3 steps: PCXP the whole time along with a little rotary work

- M105 with uber orange pad, Menzerna 203 with megs yellow pad, menzerna FPII with uber blue pad

blackfire wet diamond for the sealant, pinnacle souveran for the wax



total time invested ~ 15 hours

 

[wn1998]

I would also be interested in your process! It turned out great!

 

[Envious Eric]

we posted at the same time...its above your post

 

[Barry Theal]

Looking awesome Eric!!!! Thats a cool car!

 

[imported_Amused]

^ He thanks you too!

 

[seech]

Nice turnaround. That's one of my favorite Ferrari's.

 

[somebody]

Nice turnaround, you have to love a properly detailed red ferrari.

 

[imported_Sludge1]

Awesome job on a awesome car. Great work!

 

[Rickrack]

Looks amazing Eric!



Nothing looks better than red when perfectly detailed, especially a red Ferrari!



Top notch work!

 

[Innovative Detailing]

Looks awesome.....great makeover!

 

[rcrobbins]

Nice job, I love the red. I have a black 308 waiting with my name on it. I'm just dreading all the swirls and horrible bodywork, but now I know what they really look like in the end!

 

[vtec92civic]

pretty slick! Especially being done with a PC. How do you like those Uber flat pads?

 

[Envious Eric]

PC or rotary, doesnt really matter! 105 with orange is a pretty awesome combo!



love the uber flat pads, will not get anything else. I still have to try out the hydrotech pads some more though!