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Old 11-05-2008, 02:17 PM
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This is a 88 mustang owned by one of my very good Corvette customers, his daily driver. Cool car, heads, cam, supercharger. Anyway it was completely oxidized, like a black chalkboard.

This was a fun project, and here are some teaser pics from my camera phone: (all pics were taken under the same lighting conditions, garage closed with garage lights only)



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AFTER!












more pics to come today
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wow thats awesome, what did you use to make it look so good?
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wow thats awesome, what did you use to make it look so good?
a new coat of paint
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^ haha no. Proper detailing

Well i'm off to finish the car now. More pics later!
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Ok, I finished the car up today.

The detail process for this car was actually pretty simple. Only had to use the PC.

-first pass: Menzerna IP on a Lake Country orange pad, speed 5
-second pass: Menzerna MP on a Lake Country white pad, speed 5
-wax: Meguiar's Liquid #26
-convertible top: 303 Convertible top treatment.

Final pics (and customer will send me some from his camera tomorrow that we took during the process.





























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damn you clean the hell out of it What products did you use??
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wow lol i need to start writing those #'s down for the types of maguires waxes. really good job man
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Very nice. Do you know if that's the factory paint?
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damn how long did that take you?! Nice results
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Originally Posted by camAro242
damn you clean the hell out of it What products did you use??
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Ok, I finished the car up today.

The detail process for this car was actually pretty simple. Only had to use the PC.

-first pass: Menzerna IP on a Lake Country orange pad, speed 5
-second pass: Menzerna MP on a Lake Country white pad, speed 5
-wax: Meguiar's Liquid #26
-convertible top: 303 Convertible top treatment.
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Originally Posted by ssbowtie1
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damn how long did that take you?! Nice results

Thanks guys! Yes its the factory paint. Took about 9 hours total.
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Nice!!!!!!!!!!

Nice 52" Sony as well????
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Looks great, thats alot of work. I had that same car in a coupe back in the day.
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wow amazing!!! now the owner needs to lose those 80s wheels and that red stripe.
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nice work now tell him to change those god awful wheels
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Very nice! I use Menzerna as well including the glaze and FMJ. It's spendy but well worth the price.
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