I thought I would post up some funny stories from when I used to detail for a living instead of a hobby.
We did mainly dealer cars. We had about 10 different dealers that we did work for. Their was one in particular that we did. It was Weird Wally's Auto. Now Wally is a great guy and one of the originators of the buy here pay here places. Wally specialized in very low end cars. And naturally he had negotiated a very low price for his details. $55 per car. Talk about cheap now take it this was 20 years ago but still cheap. Wally had a thing he would never buy a car for more than $500. So this gives you and idea of the condition. We would never do the engines because most wouldn't run if you spit near them. These things were always so oxidized, and some of them would even have rust holes. Buffing them was a real pain, some of them would come out stripped because of the oxidization, and our boss wasn't willing to do what it would take to get them right. They all just got buffed once with a medium compound, and then a LSP. And quite frankly they weren't worth it.
So one day I was using some wheel acid on a particularly rusty specimen, one of the guys suggested we use it on the rust on the door panel that had some rust. So we did and it removed the rust stains and the oxidization. So we said lets try the whole car. So we did. Let me tell you it removed all the dirt, rust, and oxidization. One of the buy products was off course it burned the paint, bleached the trim, and god knows what else it damaged, but nobody cared it was just a bomb anyway. Now if the boss saw us do this he would have freaked because of using so much acid. Well going from that point on. When the boss was not around we would just acid the whole car and then throw on some wax. It worked really well, only trick is it would change the color of the car. Usually lighten the paint, but hey it was clean and shiney. So it was the inside joke with us.
We would do a Wally Special
when the boss wasn't around. Wally would always comment he wasn't sure what we were doing but is cars always looked so good. But it seemed to him that the color was a little different. We would always just laugh to ourselves.
Disclaimer - I wouldn't try this on anything that you give a hoot about.
Troy Armstrong
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And that could also be part of a really bad joke.
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