Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - April 16th, 2009

[Mike Phillips]

Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - April 16th, 2009

At our last Thursday Night "Open Garage", Dad brought his little girl to join in the fun...

Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - April 2nd, 2009





She had so much fun she built her first car!




Including a shifter!





Shannon brought the most delicious homemade cookies! (Thought we were going to hide these?)




And with over 25 people in attendance the garage was busy all night long!

[Nappers]

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That is sooooo cool!

Kids are great! Our oldest is 21 and the future holds grandkids, can't wait to jack them on sugar and chocolate covered espresso beans and send them home with a kitten.

Fun times!

[ClearlyCoated]

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She had so much fun she built her first car!

Including a shifter!

And...

She didn't settle for the base model. It's a Limited Edition!

[Maserati Mario]

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aww, I knew I should have went
I had a blast with her last time!

[TheLastNexus]

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Where's the rest of the pics Mike? Ha ha.

[Mikejl]

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Looks like a great turn out. I'm bummed I had to miss this one.

I think Bob's little girl enjoys these Open Garages as much as I do!

Looking forward to seeing more pics.

Mike

[Mike Phillips]

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Creating a dark sheen on flat black plastic

Flat black looks cool when it's used to accent components rear window louvers on this Mustang. There are two problems with flat black surfaces

1) Over time the the flat black appearance becomes dull and loses it's dark sheen.

2) There's nothing really on the market targeted and the variety of different flat black components to restore and maintain their appearance.


Part of the problem is the material or the coating that makes up whatever the flat black component is varies greatly from from a thin vinyl tape used for graphics, to flat black paint used to paint components and flat black plastic which is where the pigment is throughout the entire plastic matrix of the component.

Meguiar's doesn't make a product specific to flat black surfaces just like no one else does, at least at the time stamp of the post. When left without options, a car crazy enthusiast has to take what they can get if it's shows to actually help, (solve the problem, and not harm, (cause a problem).

Meguiar's Gold Class Trim Detailer is for restoring and maintaining rubber, plastic and vinyl trim, so while it's not specifically for these louvers and the material they are made out of, it does work pretty good.

The way to use it is to gently massage this product onto the surface using a clean, soft foam applicator pad, somewhat like you would rub skin lotion onto our face. Allow to penetrate for a few minutes and then softly wipe all surfaces down with a clean microfiber to remove any excess residue off the surface.

The results are a deep, dark black sheen...

[Mike Phillips]

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Dan and Enjoli brought the BMW they just bought for under a $1000.00 to tonight's "Open Garage" class. It has a single stage paint with orange peel and it's about as dull as it can get. So we let Dan try out some Ultimate Compound first and then his girlfriend joined in the fun!



































Then the following Saturday that took what they learned at our Thursday night class and put it to work on the rest of the BMW!

detailed the 91 525i...






Nice work!

[dandl11]

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Thanks so much for the really enjoyable experience...............nice people, great gift of knowlwdge...........extremely helpful, oh yeh, and good pizza!

Both my son Shawn and I had a great time...........will come again!

Donnie & Shawn Levin

[dansgt]

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thanks mike, what you showed me helped alot, definitely was exactly what i needed to do to that car to make it beautiful. i'm looking forward to the next one, still kind of afraid to touch my black mustang without knowing more, i'll definitely be bringing that to the next class.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - April 16th, 2009

still kind of afraid to touch my black mustang without knowing more, i'll definitely be bringing that to the next class.

What year is the Mustang?

[ClearlyCoated]

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What year is the Mustang?

Still hoping for that '67 Fastback?

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - April 16th, 2009

Still hoping for that '67 Fastback?

Or a 1965 or 1966 Fastback would do just nicely.

[Carfire]

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OH NO!!
Is that a Pad on the Ground!!!!
Nice Car!!
How Does she detail that!?!?!?!?!?!?
Great Job on the Bemer!!

[dansgt]

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2003 gt. the custom paint the previous owner did isn't looking as good as it should be. lots of little defects in it (sadly most i know wont clean up)