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I have a Werner one just like it that works great. I think I got mine on a Black Friday sale from Lowe's for around $20. But like Chase said, you can get the Werner's for $40 normally.

Adam's Patriot Wax.

The car was already pretty clean when it was dropped off. Started with the wheels. Strip wash. Condition of the paint after removing iron contaminates and being clayed. On to the paint correction (after initial polishing step before finishing). Tail lights cleaned up nice also. Wasn’t able to get any sun shots because I finished late in the day. Thanks for checking it out!

It was kind of dark when the car was dropped off, but it wasn’t very dirty anyways. So I don’t have any pictures of the wash. Here’s a few of the damage after the wash, removing iron contaminates and being clayed. On to the paint correction. Driver’s door. Rear quarter panel. Hood. Passenger door before. After. Rear pillar. Front fender before. After. Trunk. Pulled it out in the sun to inspect the progress. Sanding pigtails by the gas tank. After. Rear quarter panel before. After. Front bumper before. After. The interior looked fairly clean. After Adam's Leather and Interior Cleaner. It’s a little harder to see the difference on the seat. Adam's Patriot Wax applied. And a few after shots. Thanks for checking it out!

For some strange reason I don't have a single one on my camera. He also has another 69 Cyclone, except this one is orange and is a 428 Cobra Jet. The orange one is a recent restoration and needs a full correction which I will be doing as soon as my brother gets the oil cooler hooked up and the carburetor adjusted just right. The red and white one needs a light polish, so I'll do a full write-up on both. I'm always pressed for time between being a full-time student and trying to get everything set up for my business.

While I was home doing the paint correction on the 2005 Corvette, I noticed my uncle's 1969 Mercury Cyclone was a little dusty from sitting in our building. It needed to be driven, but I wasn't going to drive it anywhere looking like that. It didn't need a full two-bucket wash, so I just foamed it down with some Adam's Car Shampoo and rinsed it off. To my surprise, the Machine Super Sealant that I applied 13 months ago was still beading water as well as when I first applied it. The car has probably only been washed maybe 3 times since I applied it, but it was still pretty amazing.

Passenger door. Passenger quarter panel. Trunk Driver’s quarter panel. Mirror. Afters (that's Patriot on the paint). Sorry for the long post. Thanks for checking it out!

My latest job was another black convertible Corvette (almost identical to the last one). Some parts of the car had been repainted, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Here’s what it looked like when the customer dropped it off. Just a little dust. Wheels weren’t too bad. Some silicone tire dressing sling. Cowl was looking a little faded. Waterspots. Exhaust wasn’t looking so hot. Started the wash off with the wheels. Then the wheelwells. Looking new again. Then to the paint with a little foam gun action. After claying, I inspected the paint. This was easily the worst paint I’ve ever worked on. A little left over spray paint (car had been vandalized). Sanding marks. Paint readings looked alright. Test spot (before finishing). Hood. Passenger fender.

Looks awesome man!

Looking good in the sun is what you want. You're not going to remove the solvent pop by anything other than repainting. I would just leave it alone, the swirls are gone and it's going to look great in the sun.

What he said. Some of the small spots look like deep etching.

This thread escalated quickly...

Most of the time I tape up the trim and such to prevent polish from staining or getting on the trim. After a few cars you'll see how much time it saves you by not having to clean up the trim afterwards. You also want to tape up any sharp edges where you could possibly damage the paint. Or just tape up anything you don't want the pad/polish touching. It doesn't matter which tape you use. Adam's tape is very nice, but the blue painter's tape won't damage anything either.

The owner said the car had been sitting in a warehouse and I guess the moisture built up inside the car. I'm assuming there was some kind of cheap interior dressing on there that caused this effect.

Did a paint correction on this very low mileage Corvette. The car only had a couple thousand miles on it but the paint was in pretty rough shape. Car showed up not very dirty, just a little dusty. Deep Wheel Cleaner and APC doing its thing. After a two bucket wash, being clayed, rinsed off again, and dried, I started on the paint. This was a test spot on the hood with my new Rupes 21. Microfiber cutting pad did the trick and didn't leave too much haze to clean up in the finishing stage. Used my new Rupes LHR75 for the tighter areas (definitely replacing my PC for 4" pads). Passenger front fender before. After. Driver's front fender before. After. Driver's rear quarter panel before. After Passenger door before. After. I don't even know what was going on with the interior. Dash was the same way. 50/50 of the door cleaned and conditioned. A couple after shots of this beast. (Camera lens fogged up and ruined the others.)