Sharkpolitur Escort Service detailing/restoring original Single Stage Paint on MCMLXXXII Red Corvette

[Shark Politur]

Good friend called recently to restore her 1982 Red Corvette, the paint is all original single stage, all interior, motor, wheels, exterior parts are original. This is V8 5.7L Cross-Fire Injection 200HP classic muscle US sport car. Everything works tip-top & she wants to enjoy it to the maximum, the summer is coming. We have a lot of fun in Tel Aviv.

Hi Sharky, here are you & I am calling you :laughing:

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Hi babe, you look great :wow:

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You really think so?

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Sure.
Let's go to see the car, I want to start restoring it immediately, the day is short...
This is my Red Corvette, what do you think? Brought it 1.5Y ago from Chicago, didn't had time to take appearance care of it till now, in the summer it will be my daily driver...please make it shine like my red lipstick
Don't worry darling, everything will be taken care of, you too :laughing:

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Door locks, all other moving parts needed penetration (I prefer this word rather than rust removal spray, what do you think?), Sandra told me that sometimes door handles work, sometimes she has to open first the right door & then left from the inside.

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Have you ever used a vacuum cleaner for the engine? I just did :laughing:

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Everything will be taken care of, this inner bonnet too.

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All electronics contacts were cleaned, sorry, penetrated.

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Dirt, dirt & more dirt plus deadly oxidized paint, have you ever seen something like this?

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Degreasing 34Y old 5.7L engine

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In 1.5 hour engine clean & antistatic protected + water repellent + electronic contacts sprayed again

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[Shark Politur]

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The engine is all done including nasty inner bonnet

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with the bonnet it took me about 2h+

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Let's see inside

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Top removed, cleaned, protected

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Over with interior, I want to start with the single stage paint!

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:laughing:

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Let the magic begin, I started the process (now there is no way back :laughing:) with wash & wax synthetic shampoo & clay bar lubrication

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This is how paint looks after drying it with gilda chamois, clean but dead

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[Shark Politur]

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The 1982 Cross-Fire Injection Red Corvette is all originally restored, all next pictures will be fun & Grand Finale, my strategy here was to keep the paint look completely natural without going deep & hard into it, that's why all the work is a hand job :laughing:
Paint was very healthy (before they knew to paint the cars in USA) but fine, so carefully but surely I moved forward without risking everything, probably that's why people just leave me their cars & go. Sandra's Corvette got 66778 miles into it & she paid 350% import tax to bring it here so whatever this car worth in USA multiply it by X3.5
We are very happy about the day brought us together, I wish her during the summer to burn the wheels completely (she does it) & make the men crazy :dblthumb2: with her Red Corvette.
If you have boring questions about the step by step I made here, just ask I know the answers, if you want to learn from me how to restore single stage paint by hand I doubt you'll learn anything because this is Sharkpolitur - hardcore, random, chaotic style detailing operations. You better look for answers somewhere else. So into the pics.

Here I just placed camera on the hood & started to shoot

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Go to call Sandra, I need your help baby we will put now some good additive (elixir I told her) into your big & black Red Corvette engine

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My Red Corvette, my red corvette, my red corvette

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And more Red Corvette pics

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After photo session & some kind of break...I came back relaxed & sprayed paint again with detailer

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It ain't over before it's all over...I think you guys want more of Sandra's Corvette pics

[Shark Politur]

Sharkpolitur & Sandra finish in exctasy on the Red Corvette bonnet

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Attention everybody who are stupid, Sandra is a self made businesswoman & celebrity from Savyon (place near TLV where Israel's elite & multi-millionaires reside) that's why I ask to keep your comments appropriate, she poses for me only because we are friends & she wanted to express herself like this, does your sister or mother burns tires like Sandra does on the crossroads, if not then please understand what kind of personality she is. This lady loves all that smoke & music from the 80's
I wish everybody a wonderful day, see you soon Autogeek$
Trully yours, your biggest fan, Shark :laughing:

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[zx10r Elle]

Mr Shark Politur,

Great work on another classic car. Your friend looks very happy with her shiny new looking red corvette, im sure she will have lots of fun with it, both are beauties.


Steve

[ajack6292]

Talk about meeting a challenge. Really well done as always, Marc.

[Joshwaa]

Just WOW! That is probably the best that paint has ever looked.

[DeansDetailing]

There's a car in those pictures? Didn't notice.

;-)

Awesome job, dude!

[Ebg18t]

Good recovery; looks much better.

Atleast I know where those in-between year vettes ended up (80's)

[Sizzle Chest]

Marc, great job as always my friend. You really brought that classic 'Vette back from the dead! The paint was so bad!

Looks great again!!!

[Shark Politur]

Mr Shark Politur,

Great work on another classic car. Your friend looks very happy with her shiny new looking red corvette, im sure she will have lots of fun with it, both are beauties.


Steve

Thank you Ninja Steve,

at least now I know that you & guys noticing the beauty & the beast are straight, regarding the rest I don't know :laughing:

[Shark Politur]

Talk about meeting a challenge. Really well done as always, Marc.

Thank you Mr. Jaguar XF 5.0L S/C, don't forget to subscribe to Arden newsletter, look what I got inbox few days ago :wow:

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And thank you again for appreciating my workout :dblthumb2:, if you think it was very hard to restore the paint, no it was not because I've got the key, I've got the secret :laughing:.
Many crazy things happened behind the scenes, but tsssssss

[Shark Politur]

There's a car in those pictures? Didn't notice.

;-)

Awesome job, dude!

Thank you my friend,

have you ever made something nice together with a sexy looking girlfriend on the hood of a shiny, polished car, if not then I am sorry for you :laughing:, it is worth it especially when her husband is abroad making tons of money for us to have fun. I made it tens of times in any place you can imagine, anywhere 4 wheels can enter I did it, let me die tomorrow, no - tonight if I am lying.

Regarding all Corvette models from 1st till 4th generation it was a very nice looking & performing sport car there was even some quality, but afterwards greed at Chevrolet made it look silly, unrespectful, too stupid. Today when people see new Vette on the street they like to look after it for few seconds but everybody knows it's a pile of junk, nobody wants to own it, it's reputation is below 0.
On the positive side girls do like it, if this is the reason anybody buys Corvette then - respect. Girls are crazy about Corvette, much more than Porsche, BMW, Mercedes combined, for them it's somewhere between Lamborghini & Ferrari. Go for it if you play hard.

[Shark Politur]

Just WOW! That is probably the best that paint has ever looked.

Thank you my friend,

ask who cares about the paint finish, not me for sure :dblthumb2:

[Shark Politur]

Marc, great job as always my friend. You really brought that classic 'Vette back from the dead! The paint was so bad!

Looks great again!!!

Thank you my dear friend,

this is what Sharkpolitur is all about - Life.