Apollo_Auto
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Hi boys and girls! Just like that one, unforgettable girl that we all had in our hometowns, this car has also been labeled as the dealership "bicycle"... everyone's had a ride (me too... with the Ferrari I mean
). She's been pimped out to celebrities, taken on joyrides, given to customers for 1-nighters, been in movies, used and exploited by the press and ridden harder than Jenna Jameson in a... well you know. After almost 3 years of being used like a Ferrari is supposed to be used, her age was really starting to show (as well as the TONS of scratches that were on it from the "hey take a picture of me" people), so the owner decided it was time for her to get the attention she deserved... some Jesse love.
I wish I could have taken some shots of this disaster under God's Brinkmann but I think the pics I took inside are more than I care to subject you all to (ain't I sweet?
). Also, I always wondered what the dealership did about the condition of these cars before they met me... Get your barf-bags out kids, it's carnage time >>
Obviously they didn't do too much about the condition... but just the other day I saw the owner of the dealership looking at his Scuderia with a LED lamp. Got him trained now!
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Lots of scratches from blue jean rivets and other "shouldn't be on the paint" things...
Luigi wuz here 2007! Has this really been here for 3 years?!
Pigtails are back in style!
I didn't always use the same polishing combo for this one, as with a lot of the others I do. Reason being is that not all of the damage is the same in all places, so if the damage can be removed without compounding I don't do it. This way, I save as much of the original paint as I possibly can. I mean, why take off paint if I don't have to? I may say sometimes that I used XY combo, but I always forget to mention that in some places I used another combo because the damage was worse there. Anyway, this is the hideous bumper that was in the previous pictures after a few passes with a wool pad and InstaFinish #15 in some places and then finished up with IF #15 and a finishing pad. Generally the bumpers on Ferraris are easier to correct because they're painted separately from the body. Anyway, most of the car had to be Rambod with a wool pad and #15, but in some places I was able to get proper correction with #15 and a finishing pad. I also had to use #30 to finish in some places. I know it sounds like a lot of back and forth, and it is, but I save more paint that way and that's the goal.
Oh here's the rosso fuoco California that I did a couple of weeks ago... with a new look. Now that looks damn nice to me... The rims totally change the look of this car.
Bottom of the doors all squared away... that lift sure the heck is handy!
Some more pigtails!!
I used a wool pad and #15 on this followed by #30 and a finishing pad.
I wish I could have taken some shots of this disaster under God's Brinkmann but I think the pics I took inside are more than I care to subject you all to (ain't I sweet?
). Also, I always wondered what the dealership did about the condition of these cars before they met me... Get your barf-bags out kids, it's carnage time >>
Obviously they didn't do too much about the condition... but just the other day I saw the owner of the dealership looking at his Scuderia with a LED lamp
. Got him trained now!
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Lots of scratches from blue jean rivets and other "shouldn't be on the paint" things...
Luigi wuz here 2007! Has this really been here for 3 years?!
Pigtails are back in style!
I didn't always use the same polishing combo for this one, as with a lot of the others I do. Reason being is that not all of the damage is the same in all places, so if the damage can be removed without compounding I don't do it. This way, I save as much of the original paint as I possibly can. I mean, why take off paint if I don't have to? I may say sometimes that I used XY combo, but I always forget to mention that in some places I used another combo because the damage was worse there. Anyway, this is the hideous bumper that was in the previous pictures after a few passes with a wool pad and InstaFinish #15 in some places and then finished up with IF #15 and a finishing pad. Generally the bumpers on Ferraris are easier to correct because they're painted separately from the body. Anyway, most of the car had to be Rambod with a wool pad and #15, but in some places I was able to get proper correction with #15 and a finishing pad. I also had to use #30 to finish in some places. I know it sounds like a lot of back and forth, and it is, but I save more paint that way and that's the goal.
Oh here's the rosso fuoco California that I did a couple of weeks ago... with a new look. Now that looks damn nice to me... The rims totally change the look of this car.
Bottom of the doors all squared away... that lift sure the heck is handy!
Some more pigtails!!
I used a wool pad and #15 on this followed by #30 and a finishing pad.
. To top things off, when I reached for some clean MF's to remove the wax I could see the results of my wife accidentally putting my good MF's in with my junkers and door jamb rags... :banghead:. There were thousands of little hairs all over the car... Anyway, I'll go back over it with a QD in a couple weeks (we're closed for 2 weeks from Monday) after it's had time to gas and when I go back to clean her insides 
