Apollo_Auto
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Hi all! Here's another California that I finished on Friday. This is the 2nd 2-seater California ever produced. This poor car has been going through hell since the day it rolled of the production line. It's got 141 km on it and of course the paint looked like poo. The first big mistake with this one that we found was that the stitching in the leather was the wrong color in the back... this was the first time I've seen a mistake from the leather department (they're usually spot on). The customer ordered the car with white stitching and he got yellow stitching in the back... oops. The new belts were ordered ASAP. While the new belts were on the way, the customer requested that the car be taken to Switzerland to be registered. These poor delivery guys had to jump through hoops to get the car into Switzerland. The border patrol wouldn't let them pay the taxes on the car because they weren't the original owners... in the end the owner had to drive to the border and pay in person... pfft. Then the car got stuck in Switzerland again because the VIN number was an EU VIN and couldn't be registered in Switzerland and this and that... long story short the car arrived to me 2 weeks late. I had to stay late 2 nights in a row just to get it finished because the clear bra guy also needed to do his job... This car was a huge PITA from start to finish, but I'm very pleased with the results and the customer was of course thrilled... good for me because this is a VERY important client, as he's soon to be the president of the Ferrari Owner's Club of Hungary and because I'm doing his Maranello next 
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Anyway, the car came with Luigi's signature (buffer trails) and lots of RDS. I didn't try to catch them on camera because like I said, I was pressed for time... again. I still haven't received my big order of InstaFinish yet so I had to tackle this one with Scholl S17. I started by hunting the larger scratches down and sorting them out with S17 and a wool pad. Then I analyzed and accessed each panel as I went along sometimes being able to tackle it with S17 and a polishing pad and sometimes with InstaFinish Swirl Away and a finishing pad, sometimes this combo or that. I really change pad and polish combos a lot when I do these cars because my main goal is to save as much paint as possible. So on to the show!
The stitching problem...
Some odd etching on the roof...
Some of the RDS that the car was riddled with...
A line in the paint near the back tail lamp where it was taped off to be repainted...
and the crappy respray...
. Anyway, the car came with Luigi's signature (buffer trails) and lots of RDS. I didn't try to catch them on camera because like I said, I was pressed for time... again
. I still haven't received my big order of InstaFinish yet so I had to tackle this one with Scholl S17. I started by hunting the larger scratches down and sorting them out with S17 and a wool pad. Then I analyzed and accessed each panel as I went along sometimes being able to tackle it with S17 and a polishing pad and sometimes with InstaFinish Swirl Away and a finishing pad, sometimes this combo or that. I really change pad and polish combos a lot when I do these cars because my main goal is to save as much paint as possible. So on to the show!
The stitching problem...
Some odd etching on the roof...
Some of the RDS that the car was riddled with...
A line in the paint near the back tail lamp where it was taped off to be repainted...
and the crappy respray...
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