TexasXD1

Thanks!  I actually stumbled upon your amazing detailed thread and was even more intrigued and impressed on your set-up!  Still trying to get my bearings on the forum and that will provide a good amount of reading material.
 
I plan to build a cheap, somewhat smaller cart that will fit easier in the space that I will be working.  Most of the ones I can find are a bit too wide for what I need.  Detailing in a two car garage where space between cars is limited.  I keep my toy car in the garage so only have half of it to work with.

Part II: Paint Correction
 
First up was taking an Adam's Big Blue Clay Bar to all exterior glass and paint, using Detail Spray as a clay lubricant.
 

 
After stretching and flattening a piece of clay, I sprayed the surface with a generous amount of Detail Spray and began to glide the clay across the surface using light pressure, until the area felt smooth:
 

 

 
After claying the windshield and about half of the hood:
 

 
There was a significant amount of clay residue left over (see photo below), so I wiped the majority of it off with a Borderless Gray Towel.
 

 
Once the surface was wiped clean, I taped off about a 2-foot area on the hood as a test area.
 

 
Since I knew this paint had some pretty deep scratches and swirls as well as holograms and buffer trails, I decided to go straight to the Flex with the 6.5” Microfiber cutting pad and Paint Correcting Polish:

 

 
I applied four drops of Paint Correcting Polish onto the pad and then spread it around some with my fingers, so that it wouldn't blob too much in one spot on the hood:
 

 

 
One quick trigger-pull of Detail Spray to prime the pad:
 

 
I spread the Paint Correcting Polish around some before powering on the machine:
 

 
I then set the machine to speed 6, placed the pad onto the surface, and pulled the pressure-sensitive trigger. I began polishing this area in a slow methodical pattern, first in up-down passes, overlapping the pad about 50% with each pass, then in a left-right motion. I repeated this pattern until the polish began to “flash”. Flashing is when the polish appears to look almost vaseline-like, when all of the micro-abrasives have broken down and done all of the work they can do with that amount of polish on the pad.

 
I then took a Single Soft Towel and wiped off the polish residue to inspect the results.
 

 
I was immediately very impressed with the results. C5 Corvettes are known for having a very hard clear coat, but this one being a repaint, almost all of the swirl marks and scratches were now gone with just one pass with the microfiber pad.
 

 

 
You can still see two deeper scratches in the photo below, going right through the reflection of the overhead dual tube LED light in my garage. The light reflection is curved like an S due to the curves of the hood, but notice the clarity of the two light tubes when compared to the haziness and blurry light reflections from the photos in Part I of this write-up:
 

Thank you very much for signing up for the forum good buddy!
 
Jeff is a close friend of mine and is just as fanatical about keeping his cars clean as I am, so I knew he would never do any damage to the finish like this, so hopefully no one thought that he caused these problems
​Here's a nice sideways action shot of his old awesome Camaro!
 

IN-DEPTH: Full Exterior Detail on a 2002 Corvette Z06
 

 
Products Used in this Write-Up:
Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner Adam’s Big Blue Clay Bar Adam’s Blue Hex Grip Applicator Adam’s Borderless Gray Towel Adam’s Detail Spray Adam’s Metal Polish #1 Adam’s Liquid Paint Sealant Adam’s Pad Conditioning Brush Adam’s Paint Correcting & Paint Finishing Polish Combo Adam’s Patriot Shine Kit Adam’s Pro Tire Hex Grip Applicator Adam’s Red Waxing Hex Grip Applicator Adam’s Revive Hand Polish Adam’s Single Soft Towel Adam’s Super VRT Tire & Trim Dressing Adam’s Tire Shine Adam’s VRT Super Block Tire Dressing Applicator Adam’s Waterless Wash & Towel Combo Adam’s 4” Orange Foam Pad (2 Pack) Adam’s 4” Orange Microfiber Pad (2 Pack) Adam’s 4” White Foam Pad (2 Pack) Adam’s 6.5” Orange Microfiber Cutting Pad Adam’s 7” Orange Foam Pad Adam’s 7” White Foam Pad Cyclo Model 5-Pro Mark II Polisher Flex 3401 VRG Dual Action Orbital Polisher Rupes LHR 75E Mini Random Orbital Polisher  
Background
 
A few weeks back one of my close friends parted with his red 1996 Camaro Z28. That car was near spotless as could be for a nearly 20 year old car, and I never thought he would sell it due to how many fun memories he’s had using the car for SCCA Autocross for over 10 years, even letting me co-drive it with him one year at the SCCA Nationals in Topeka, Kansas. He decided he wanted to step up to a more competitive car for stock class racing, since the trusty F-Body simply could not keep up with the newer technology Mustangs that can also run much better tires due to having 17 and 18 inch wheels instead of the 16” wheels on his Camaro. He shopped around for a while and found this awesome 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 – very, very low miles and for a steal of a price!
 
When he purchased it, they told him right then that the car had an incident where the paint was pretty damaged but that it was not in a wreck…let’s just say that someone was sick and it ended up going all over the front half of the car and then it sat there for a few weeks, requiring the front half of the car to be repainted, so they went ahead and repainted the whole thing. He brought it over on his way home from work one day and asked if I would be interested in detailing it. He said “you’ll see why once we pull it into your garage under the lights…”, so I had a feeling this was going to be a good challenge.
 

 
Sure, it looks like it's in pretty good shape paint-wise in the picture above, right? Wrong! Once I started to take a look at it, we agreed to leave the car with me and I gave him a ride home to his house…blowing up cylinder #4 in my year old Regal G.S. daily driver in the process…but that’s a different story for a different thread…

I bet it will be a B-Ute!  That's exciting stuff, anxious to see it pan out and posted up with Adams goodies!

If my plans work out correctly, I might own an even closer relatively to your G8 this spring to replace one of my rides...just that it will be missing 2 doors and sorta have a truck bed on the back half!

Or Panther Black Metallic for a built a cammed LS brother of your Pontiac