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Old 12-15-2010, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by PatBuckley View Post
....only until the painter started shooting the color coat!



It was actually Pat Buckley's car that pushed us over the edge to start polishing cars. He sanded his car in a very fine grit (I think 400, Pat can chime in here) and it looked so killer we had to try it ourselves. Pat really did a nice job on his car. It was the nicest Kirkham we had ever seen. At the time we were only sanding our cars to 120 grit. Our customers have always done really nice things over the years to their rides. Many of those "upgrades" and custom ideas we have later started to do ourselves.

After sanding to 400, one of our guys wanted to polish the stripes...then, well, polishing the whole car wasn't far behind.

big-boss, do whatever you want. I personally think the polished car is much easier to take care of than the brushed car.

David
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