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

    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






    Hi babe, you look great



    You really think so?



    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

































    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.








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







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













    All electronics contacts were cleaned, sorry, penetrated.



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









    Degreasing 34Y old 5.7L engine














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












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









    The engine is all done including nasty inner bonnet







    with the bonnet it took me about 2h+



    Let's see inside































    Top removed, cleaned, protected









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




































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







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






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















    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
    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 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
















    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













    My Red Corvette, my red corvette, my red corvette







    And more Red Corvette pics






































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
















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

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

    Sharkpolitur & Sandra finish in exctasy on the Red Corvette bonnet




































    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

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

    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

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

    Talk about meeting a challenge. Really well done as always, Marc.
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    Re: Sharkpolitur Escort Service detailing/restoring original Single Stage Paint on MCMLXXXII Red Corvette

    Just WOW! That is probably the best that paint has ever looked.
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    Re: Sharkpolitur Escort Service detailing/restoring original Single Stage Paint on MCMLXXXII Red Corvette

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

    ;-)

    Awesome job, dude!

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    Good recovery; looks much better.

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

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

    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!!!
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