Joyriide Detailed: 1967 Corvette Stingray, RRS, CLS

joyriide1113

joyriide1113

There is no cure!
This car for some reason reminds me of Steve (Poorboy). I guess since he always mentions Muscle cars, I guess this one is to you.

1967' Corvette. Just about everything on this car is original equipment with matching VIN's. Quite rare from what I was told and very expensive. Owner is a standup guy who let me use his garage for two days while I worked on it. Day one was spent detailing the interior, washing, and prepping the car. Day two was spent strictly polishing. This car had a lot of curves and small spaces to work with on the hood, which ironically was the most abused. The rest of the car's body had a light haze from a visit with a bodyshop and a small amount of swirling.

Interior

Woolite 6:1
Meguiars QID
Zaino Leather in a Bottle
Meguiars Detailer Line Glass cleaner
and a variety of brushes to help scrub out the carpet and loosen dirt before vacuuming and dusting the vents.

Exterior

Meguiars Gold Class
Zaino Clay Bar (lightly clayed during wash)
Menzerna SIP via Polishing pad 1200-1500rpms
Menzerna 106ff via Finishing pac 1200rpms (Ultrafina was not behaving and causing my pad to skip and jump everywhere)
Zaino Z6 wipe down
Zaino ZFX'd Z2pro x1
Z16 on tires, buffed off 10 minutes later to dull the shine of the tire.

Engine
As I said, the car was all orginal, which scared me when it came to detailing the engine bay, so all it got was a wipe down and some CD-2 on the areas I could get.


Interior Before
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Interior After
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During
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Afters

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and a happy and satisfied enthusiast.
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These were taken while Z2pro dried.
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You may also remember that I detailed a CLS55 AMG not too long ago, well that was the same owner, so while I was there on day one, I cleaned it up since it hadn't been washed since the detail. Not that it was too bad either, its not driven much from what I understand.



Meguairs Gold Class
Zaino Z6 Wipe Down
Meguiars Hyperdressing 1:1
Meguiars Quick Interior Detailer

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Oh, and I also had great cars around me to gawk at and take notice of.
Its not pictured here, but there were several 3 series throughout this detail, and a ZO6 on the otherside of the driveway. :confused0068:
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I liked this shot. Looked soo awesome to me.
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A quick drive to the next neighborhood a few blocks away, was a quick cleanup of a Range Rover Sport. Normally this is not something I'd do for non-detail clients, I normally do this when convenient as a maintenance so that cars don't go back to their abused original state, but since this was a friend of the client I was with, I figured a quick drive over wouldn't hurt.

This car was a bit dirty, interior messy, and exterior in really bad shape. You can't see it in the shade but it was contaminated. swirled, scratched, etched, you name it, it had. Luckily the sun was aiming from the west and the massive estate provided good shade.

Interior was vacuumed, dusted, brushed out, and wiped down with Meguiars QID.
Gold Class wash
Zaino Z6 wipe down after the wash
Meguiars 1:1 on tires.

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I also had a bit of eye candy to stare at on this location as well. Another Turbo! I'm telling you, it was like a car show for me. This didn't even have his tags yet and already had wheels and Recaro kits.
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My back is sore, but this was an exceptional weekend with nice cars to work on and around.
 
That is one rare vette... and ya certainly did make it sparkle. Very Nice Job!! For me, I get such joy out of doing vehicles like that that I would almost do them just for doing them. I had the opportunity to attend an event at Art Astor's place in Anaheim a few months back and I seriously would provide services for next to nothing (like free) just to have the opportunity to work on vehicles that provide me with such joy in seeing the end results. There is one thing I did notice about the vette... it's too bad he's had to replace the steering wheel with a reproduction :(
 
I would have been very nervous doing an automobile like the Vette. Better you than me. Nice work never the less. I appreciate the before and after pictures that were taken at the same angle. It definitely shows the corrections made.:bigups
 
Looks like a car show, you have a very strong network of cars....is it the neighborhood that you live in? How do you go about getting jobs such as these, not just the Stingray? (Corvette)

Nice work
 
Another excellent job, man the cars you do are impressive...so very far from the cars, minivans and grocery go getters that I get...:bigups
 
cwcad said:
I appreciate the before and after pictures that were taken at the same angle. It definitely shows the corrections made.:bigups
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Thanks. I make it clear that somethings I don't feel good about removing and some defects are there to stay. I promise a big increase in look and heavy reduction in swirling and scratching, but never perfection, as its just not practical.
 
Beemerboy said:
Care to elaborate on that customer?

What dose he do...how is he networking you?

Just curious is all
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I mean, I met the customer through the internet. He actually brought me his buddy's car first to see how it went. Did a little wetsanding (on a single area), and some one step polishing with OP and white pad and called it a detail. Thats all I was really being paid for.

A few weeks later he lines me up with some mroe of his friends who he can't stop talking about me to. Well his friends all live in Uber duper rich neighborhoods here in Miami, which is a lot considering this is Miami and I live in a pretty descent home with mom and pops. Well word of mouth spreads while them folks eat their caviar and little by little I just keep getting called back. So I post these pics on the webforums I frequent (bmw enthusiast, Infiniti, volks), and these members see me detailing all these nice cars. So they figure they want the same.

Little by little I guess. I'm still not doing as much as I'd want, and what I post is all I do. I don't skip a detail, LOL. But hopefully soon enough I can have a steady 2-3 cars a week. Right now I only have one scheduled and everyone else who inquires, doesn't seem to care about their swirls and scratches once they see my price.

Thats pretty much it.


BTW
Beemerboy, I've been commented on not working my polish/compound long enough. Judging on my video, do you feel the same way? Some folks have said that I would get rid of some of the rids by going as long as 5 minutes, but I'm stopping as soon as I can't see the polish anymore.
 
It looks like you are working the product just fine to me...I work mine about the same....once the chemical has broken down, I wipe that area up and repeat if needed...the one thing that you don't want with a rotary is to much product...that's when you get hop and lots of residue build up...keep up the good work!
 
WOW, that corvette is rare and expensive 427 4 speed, nice job, looks like you live in the right area to do car detailing
 
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Great job!
It's not hard to see why he was raving about you to his friends.

joyriide1113 said:
1967 Corvette. Just about everything on this car is original equipment with matching VIN's. Quite rare from what I was told and very expensive.
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He told you right!
If it is a restored original with all matching numbers, it's a rare one.
If it is truly all original, it is really a rare one.
Was the paint single stage lacquer?

joyriide1113[B said:
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As I said, the car was all orginal, which scared me when it came to detailing the engine bay, so all it got was a wipe down and some CD-2 on the areas I could get.
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You did the right thing. Corvette owners of that type of vehicle are really into keeping all the original overspray and crayon markings just as they were when the car left the factory. They spend a lot of money messing things up during a restoration so the car isn't "better than new".
It was probably a fun detail, but somewhat nervewracking at times, I bet. :)
 
CharlesW said:
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He told you right!
If it is a restored original with all matching numbers, it's a rare one.
If it is truly all original, it is really a rare one.
Was the paint single stage lacquer?
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a fewyears ago on a

Nope. It was base coat clearcoat. This owner also mentioned that he owned an all original shelby before this one but hated how it was one of those cars you can't really drive without having it depreciate in value. Don't understand how that makes this corvette ok, but all I did was nodd "yes".
 
joyriide1113 said:
Nope. It was base coat clearcoat. This owner also mentioned that he owned an all original shelby before this one but hated how it was one of those cars you can't really drive without having it depreciate in value. Don't understand how that makes this corvette ok, but all I did was nodd "yes".
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The base coat/clear coat paint isn't original on a 1967. Corvette didn't use BC/CC until 1981 and then only the cars built in KY. The St. Louis cars were still single stage lacquer. As dr_detail pointed out, the reproduction items do keep it from being truly original.

So, what he has is a great, rare, beautiful, restored vehicle. I think I could live with that. :D
The BC/CC paint is a great improvement over the factory paint at that time, but it does keep the car from being a truly original one.

I can't speak for his reasoning about the Cobra, but if it was truly original, the value is much greater than if any restoration has been done.
The restored cars are usually better than the way they came from the factory, but that's not the way the collectors look at them.
One other problem with restorations is the number of fakes that get put out. That seems to happen with a lot of collectibles, not just cars.

The car you did looks great and the fact that it has BC/CC rather than the original paint would make it better in my eyes.
 
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