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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ZaneO
Let's just say not nearly enough (for several reasons).
+-$500?
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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 09:58 PM
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Less than $500.
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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve@Tropi-Care
Paint and Body Dept. loves to buff them with a high speed rotary polisher and wool pad and then put it in our hands.
I have a word for that: FOUCH!


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Old Mar 16, 2007 | 11:13 PM
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I bet the 11 hours consisted of:

30 minutes of drooling
2:30 hours of washing and waxing
1:00 hour of getting freaked out about the paint chip and
7:00 hours of, "Hey ladies. Like the car??"



Both cars look amazing BUT
Ford GT > Dodge Viper
That Trans Am in pic > that Viper!!!
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Old Mar 17, 2007 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by 02TransAm/Batmobile
I bet the 11 hours consisted of:

30 minutes of drooling
2:30 hours of washing and waxing
1:00 hour of getting freaked out about the paint chip and
7:00 hours of, "Hey ladies. Like the car??"



Both cars look amazing BUT
Ford GT > Dodge Viper
That Trans Am in pic > that Viper!!!
Werd on the Trans Am. That old viper just looks bulky/ugly.
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Old Mar 17, 2007 | 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve@Tropi-Care
We try to tell our customers that are expecting in bound deliveries of new vehicles to take them with untouched exteriors soon as possible off the carrier.
After working at a dealership for a couple years. I couldn't agree more.
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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 01:03 AM
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more pics of the silver T/A in the background!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 02:27 PM
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Sorry, no pictures of the TA.

The comments are greatly appreciated.
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Originally Posted by ZaneO
Less than $500.
WOW!

Someone earned themselves a GREAT deal!!
All that work and you charge that little for it? Please move up to WI.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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Damn... $150K+ and the trim is garbage? Yeah, no thanks. The detail work is amazing, as usual, though!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 02:59 PM
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The profile shot of the GT is so awesome its not even funny Buffing it must have been a nightmare.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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wow that GT is nice! Sucks it was somewhat a "mess" before, came out awesome though!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 07:06 PM
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Nice work Zane. I detailed a black GT with no stripes a few months ago. I was told there were only a few around?? It is a bad *** car but a PITA the detail. The majority of the vehicles I detail are black. The paint (Ford GT's and Viper's) is horrible for the sticker prices on these cars.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:19 PM
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Excellent work! How do you like that 106FF? I love it... not sure if you have tried in the past but next time you use it, mix it with your favorite glaze... talk about perfection! I mixed 106FF with Chemical Guys EZ Creme Glaze with great results.

I have a red GT coming up in the next couple months... same guy is going to have me do his red GT500. Profile cars for sure!
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 08:52 PM
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very nice work, as usual, Zane ..

The GT looks like it was a ton of work .. definately one to show future prospective clients.
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Old Mar 19, 2007 | 09:09 PM
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great work! i love detailing my own car, just for the pride of being able to say that only i have detailed it, but one of these days im just going to have to cough up the cash to see what someone who REALLY knows what theyre doing can do. im just going to have to find someone of your caliber around here (unless you want to come hang out in philly for a day, lol) normally after 4 hours my shoulders get too sore to do any more...

its funny that you say that you arent 100% satisfied with the ford gt... it looks flawless! great job on both cars.
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 12:11 PM
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they both look good.
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 12:20 PM
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VERY nice man. There is a guy downtown that does A LOT of peoples cars while they are at work.

Charges $125-$150 and is NOT EVEN CLOSE to that good.

I do it from time to time with meguiers NXT and some other stuff before that and have charged $50 just to clean up an interior and get the smoke smell out (charge more if its a smoker)

If I head a better carpet cleaner and steamer I would charge a lot more.

If I had more time I would charge A LOT more.

For the quality that ZaneO does I would charge at least $500.

Plenty of people ot there that will pay that also for that kind of quality.

My mom has her own biz and I do her car from time to time.

I am taking my fathers 81 924 Turbo in in the morning for new tint and will detail it after that. Will try and get some pics up.
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