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It Goes Beyond Careful: Cleaning a $1M Ferrari [video]
By Zack Klapman
If you’ve watched any episodes of DRIVE CLEAN, you know that taking care of a car’s paint requires more than a sponge and some dish soap. To properly clean and maintain your car’s paint, there’s simple steps (3 buckets, good products, don’t spread dirt around on the paint) that can really extend the life of your car’s paint. This will result in not only a better looking car, but you’ll get more money for it should you ever try to sell it.
But the car that hose Larry Kosilla details in this video is not your car. It’s not a normal car. It’s a $1,000,000 Ferrari 288GTO. One of only 272 made. This one wasn’t cared for properly, and then it wasn’t detailed right. The last detailer actually did a bit of harm to the paint. At this level it’s beyond detailing, it’s paint restoration.
Larry has cleaned Ferraris before, and he’s restored expensive old paint before, but this car presented special challenges. The body of this car is made of 3 different materials: Aluminum, fiberglass, and a Kevlar composite. I or you might say, “So what? The whole thing is red right?” Yes, but, as Larry will explain in the video, detailing a car like this, at this level, requires a knowledge of special things like heat dispersion. The buffer works differently on each material, like ironing cotton versus polyester, but crazy rare and expensive, with fuckups punishable by death. There’s creases in the body that (as I learned on my own car) can result in burning off the paint. Yes, Larry is that obsessed, and that good. This is serious surgery, on a very fragile client. You don’t have to own a classic car, or want to be detailer to appreciate the way he can transform this car. And just because you aren’t detailing 7-figure cars, doesn’t mean you won’t learn from this. Make the jump to watch Larry very, very carefully make this car look better than new.
The most important lesson I found, which applies to any car, was go slow. If you’re new to detailing, especially with power buffers and waxers, go slow. Take your time. It’s better to take two light passes, than go too heavy or fast, and ruin your (or someone else’) paint for good.
Source: AMMONYCdotcom
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2012-12-04 11:03:04
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