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Originally Posted by black bart Looks awesome I remember seeing this truck when you posted it on MOL |
I drove from Apple Valley, California to Escondido, California to buff that truck out, that's about 130 miles and with traffic about a 3 hour drive one way. I think I charged $600.00 for the job, a steal for the owner considering my driving time.
I did it because I was supposed to get the next car the same Hot Rod shop was working on a custom hot rod built by Boyd Coddington called
Chezoom, but never got the call. While I was there they had me show their in-house detailer things like, foam pads, dual action polishers, you know the basics for all of us.
Chezoom was on a hydraulic lift while I was buffing out the 1956 Ford F150 and at that time the dash was completely stripped out getting a face lift. The sides of the doors and fenders were all scratched up from people leaning on them. It was covered up when they weren't working on it but it was in serious need of a thorough polishing job.
You win some, you lose some... Everything works out the way it's supposed to in the end...
I haven't seen the 1956 Ford F150 since the day I buffed it out but my guess is, it's a swirl-out, hacked-up mess. The paint on the truck while beautiful scratched really easy, I showed the owner how to carefully use a quick detailer to carefully wipe it off but I'm confident none of information I imparted took root.