Site Sponsor Barney's offseason adventure Part 1: Remove, Repaint, Restore

[SleeperLS]

Turned out awesome. Really good work.

 

[blue-sun]

oh hell yes.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

What kind of steamer do you have? I have always wanted one for various cleaning but never pulled the trigger.

McCulluch MC1375
I too wanted one for a while but never purchased. This project tipped the scales, so I said f it and bought it. IT comes with 15-20 different attachments.
For what I use it for, it should be a nice addition to the tool arsenal.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Turned out awesome. Really good work.

Thanks

 

[blue-sun]

McCulluch MC1375
I too wanted one for a while but never purchased. This project tipped the scales, so I said f it and bought it. IT comes with 15-20 different attachments.
For what I use it for, it should be a nice addition to the tool arsenal.

Can you recommend a more budget friendly, super occasional use steamer for, say, a former detailer with a fleet of 2 blue cars to take care of? LOL

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I can take a look but when I was shopping around I did not see anything that was significantly less money that was a hand held or mop only unit.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Oh Barney, you look so damn good.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

You're too sweet, thanks

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Painted the screws for the lower section of the SSRA and the larger ones are for the billet grill.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Should be good for the first start of the year

 

[boostedguy05]

That is cleaning to a whole norther level.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Thanks dude !!

 

[Boost Leeroy]

You always impress me sir! Well done as always

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

 

[Yaj Yak]

absolutely. mind. fucking.

polishing "INNNNERDS" my god. your level of attention to detail is legit second to none.

you're polishing and coating shit no one will ever ever see but holy fuck is it just fucking perfect throughout sooo badass Gav'sPurpleZ

 

[Eagle]

Nice work, Gav. Crazy the time you've spent on hidden parts, but despite being purple, the car is clean!

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

absolutely. mind. fucking.

polishing "INNNNERDS" my god. your level of attention to detail is legit second to none.

you're polishing and coating shit no one will ever ever see but holy fuck is it just fucking perfect throughout sooo badass Gav'sPurpleZ

Thank you sir. I couldn't leave it dirty and I only know one way to do it ?

Nice work, Gav. Crazy the time you've spent on hidden parts, but despite being purple, the car is clean!

Thanks. Not a fan of purple ?
All good, it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Appreciate the kind words

 

[Yaj Yak]

i love the purple

 

[Yaj Yak]

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Second Installment of cleaning includes all sorts of fun stuff including using a steamer.

Look what I found, WTF. I don't even want to know:

A combination of Purple Power diluted APC, Adam's car shampoo in a spray bottle, misc brushes, wheel woolies etc and the steamer:

I wound up removing the egg crate looking structure, clean:

Coated with CarPro CQuartz UK 3.0 ( the DLUX was used up and the other bottle was cloudy, so I opted not to use it )

Washed:

Hand polished with Menzerna FG400 compound

All painted sections were hand polished, Compound and Rupes Yellow top finishing polish, and here the coating is flashing:

This area will be revisited later in the thread. The air vent flaps were later dressed with Meg's hyper dressing:

this is one of my favorite posts on this site. NGL

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Thanks dude, solid bump.
Love the before and afters