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Old 06-23-2008, 12:22 PM
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Default July 25-27th St. Paul Car Craft Nationals

Anyone going to the July 25-27th St. Paul Car Craft Nationals???

I took my Red 3rd Gen IROC Camaro last year and had an awesome time. i think i'm going to go back again this year to break in my C5 car addition to my family.
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I'll be there, been going every year for a long time. Looking forward to it!
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I just starting getting my car ready today...

So far it is washed & dried.

After washing...

After drying...


Clay bar comes next, then I am going to fire up the buffer...
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Nice SS; the CME looks great on it. Drag Radials in the rear?
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Originally Posted by stimpster
Nice SS; the CME looks great on it. Drag Radials in the rear?
Thanks! Yeah, I have Mickey Thompson radials on it.
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Here is a snapshot of the 1/4 panel reflection after some Menzerna IP. I suck at photos, can't seem to get an good pics of the LED light shinning on it.


I got the Menzerna done, went over it with the TC-8 swirl cutter, & I found a sample bottle of TC Sealant XP that I have never tried. This combo looks to be pretty nice. All products went on & came off easy.

I tried to snap some shots in the garage, but they don't do it any justice. I can't wait to see it out in the sun!

Here are a couple pics of the front, sorry for the dark pics, my camera skills are lousy.



Tonight I'll pull it out of the garage after work & snap some pics & then I am going to top it with liquid carnuba.
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I'm post whoring now....

Getting closer...Didn't get to work on it much tonight.
Here are some daylight pics, nothing on top of the TC XP sealer as of yet.




I'll post some more pics once it is all done.
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i'm trying to get work off to get up there. you guys will probably drive right through my town so i'll try to let ya know for sure if i can get work off and maybe we can meet and caravan or something. and unstang, if ya wanna do all that work on my car i'll let ya, haha
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nice,,very, very nice. looks like alot of hard work has paid off for you.
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Originally Posted by Bad Blue WS6
nice,,very, very nice. looks like alot of hard work has paid off for you.
Thanks! I have been trying out the new garage & figuring out what I need & where.
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Ill be there..Rolling my fenders as we speak, came in for a break.

I still have to change over to 3.73's
put in a new trans mount
and im going to try to get my new engine mounts in..
I was going to attempt to buff it out but i dont think ill have the time for that, and plus im new at it and i think ill probably make it look worse then it is now.
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That sounds like work!!!


I have to finish up tonight...I didn't get to a few things that I wanted to, but that is out of my control....
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i'm for sure going. me and the girlyfriend are making the trip up. can't decide if i'm going to drive my car up or not. its got plenty of rock chips in the hood anyway so why not i guess? haha. anyone good at painting?
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Oh just bring it.

Well today i installed my 3.73's, much happier with this decision. The 4.10's were great but weren't quite practical.

also installed a trans. cooler. I've needed one for a long time just now got it on.

put in my trans mount but it has a really bad 70+ vib. so ill have to see what i can do to fix that in the morning. Other then that im good to go plan on leaving tomorrow around 9am or so.
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oh it will more than likely make the trip up there. i'll be looking for you guys. are you guys entering the show or just driving them up there and walking around?
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Originally Posted by whammer33024
oh it will more than likely make the trip up there. i'll be looking for you guys. are you guys entering the show or just driving them up there and walking around?
Ill be entering the show. I dont have much to show, but ill just be there with some guys from our town. Give me a call tomorrow or text me. My number 641-990-6009

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Here is a pic from before we left Scott's house in Altoona on Friday morning...aka, before it got rained on 57 times this weekend.




Here is one from the show on Saturday...
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I think you forgot to mention you washed it like 3 times before it finally got into the show lol



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