Training Cars for the February 22nd and 23rd Detailing Class in Stuart Florida

[Mike Phillips]

Training Cars for the February 22nd and 23rd Detailing Class in Stuart Florida




First - here's the link to sign-up for this 2-day, No Chairs, 100% hands-on training class!

Click here to sign-up for the February 2-day class - February 22nd and 23rd

Second - if you're travelling here, I've done all the legwork for you, click the link below for Airport Codes, Airports, Hotels and great places to eat PLUS fun things to do in the Stuart area if you're bringing family and friends.

Airports - Hotels - Restaurants - Plus things to do in Stuart Florida!


Class Topics

Day 1 - You start with the rotary polisher, and you'll detail approximately 6 cars in one day learning everything about paint correction and ceramic coatings.

Day 2 - You learn how to wet sand by hand, machine dry sand, rotary polishers, orbital polishers and ceramic coating on actual cars with custom paint job.


As I confirm cars for this class, I will share pictures below. If you have any questions, shoot me a text or give me a call.

760-515-0444


Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

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Note: All these cars have modern BASECOAT/CLEARCOAT paint systems, not old single stage paint. So, you'll be training on the same type of paint on the car in your garage of driveway.



Saturday Class Paint Correction Cars


1941 Chevy 2-Door Sedan Streetrod
Totally swirled out! An awesome training car due to all the curves. This car has a modern basecoat/clearcoat paint job. We will start first thing Friday morning with this car and the first tool you will be training with will be the - ROTARY POLISHER.

1977 Pontiac Can Am
While I don't normally use white or light-colored cars in our classes, the paint on this 1977 Pontiac Can Am is completely filled with holograms. Holograms are a SCRATCH PATTERN put into the paint when someone uses ONLY a wool pad on a rotary buffer. For this car we will be using the brand-new Dr. Beasley's CoreCut and CoreCut+ with gear-driven orbital polishers to remove all the holograms.

I'm standing behind the passenger side front fender and capturing the sun light reflecting off the paint. The swirls and scratches you see are called HOLOGRAMS.

This is a very rare muscle car; they didn't build a lot of these so they're not a lot left on the road. This will truly be a great training experience.

Iconic sail panel louvers

Rear deck spoiler - another rare option

Factory color-matching painted mag wheels with BF Goodrich TA Radials
You'll see how to restore a bright, white to the lettering as a part of this class via machine sanding.

2013 Mustang Convertible
With this Mustang, we're going to cover a number of topics,

1. Extreme Prep Wash
2. Wet Wash Engine Detail
3. Canvas cloth convertible top cleaning and protecting
4. 1-Step Ceramic AIO Paint Correction
5. Exterior black plastic trim restoration and protection
6. Headlight correction

Neglected, dirty canvas cloth top

Headlight Correction using a Rotary Polisher to MACHINE SAND

1-Step Ceramic AIO Paint Correction

Faded black plastic trim and cladding restoration

Wet Wash Engine Detail using a Dr. Beasley's Premium Degreaser, multiple brushes and the EGO Pressure Washer

1970 VW Shorty
This is one of two cars the class will be learning how to do a budget detail by using the Dr. Beasley's NSP Z1, which is a Ceramic AIO

Sunday Class - Remove Orange Peel Sanding Car

For the Saturday class, we will be using this 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe to learn how to remove Orange Peel.

Process

1. Wet sanding by hand
2. Machine sanding dry
3. Rotary polishers with wool pads
4. Orbital polishers with foam pads
5. Ceramic coating

Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***

Fresh video sharing what you get to do in one of our classes.

Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***

Just added 2 more cars for the upcoming February detailing class.


Mike

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Wow, I don't remember that Can Am, I had to look it up, that's a pretty rare car, only made for 1 year, approx. 1133-1377 made, according to Wikipedia. And they were all white. Pretty cool with the T/A engine, although only 200 hp. IIRC the peak for that engine was in 1978, when it made 220.

 

[Mike Phillips]

Wow, I don't remember that Can Am, I had to look it up, that's a pretty rare car, only made for 1 year, approx. 1133-1377 made

Agree, rare and unique car. Plus every body panel is filled with holograms, so it will make a great training car.

I don't normally like to use white and light colored cars because there's less before and after difference impact on the students as well as more difficult to capture the before and after difference via pictures and videos, but the paint was so bad I decided it was to good of a training car to pass on.

Plus, I have a few tricks for white and light colored cars so this car will provide the opportunity to share them.

I'll try to get the stats on the 1973 Grand Am, it's a fresh purchase out of a museum and has some very good credentials.


Mike

 

[Setec Astronomy]

I guess I scrolled too fast and thought that Grand Am was some more pics of the Can Am. You do get the coolest cars for your classes, Mike.

 

[Mike Phillips]

I guess I scrolled too fast and thought that Grand Am was some more pics of the Can Am. You do get the coolest cars for your classes, Mike.

Took years to build trust with all the local car guys and even not-so-local car guys. I always had great luck getting cool training cars for all the Autogeek Roadshow Classes I taught.

Here's some more info about the 1973 Grand Am, this was recently purchased from the Ken Lingenfelter collection.

Here's a YouTube shorts video of this exact car.

You can see it in this video from 2000 at the 22:05 time stamp where Ken Lingenfelter is giving a tour of his car collection,

This car will be here next week. I have only had a glimpse of it and the paint actually looks like it's in pretty good shape - BUT - wait until I get a powerful swirl finder light on it plus inspect the vertical panels.


Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

***Update - Friday, February 7th***

I have confirmed this 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe Streetrod for our Saturday training car for learning how to remove orange peel and create a true, swirl-free show car finish.

Let me move around to the passenger side so I can place the sun rays directly onto the paint to check for swirls and/or holograms.

The white line that you see is the tale-tale sign of HOLOGRAMS and this means whoever buffed this car out last used ONLY a rotary polisher. No fear, my class will fix it.

Orange Peel
I've moved the car inside the shop because it's difficult to see Orange Peel in direct sunlight. Here's the level of orange peel.

This is the lower portion of the trunk lid - those are palm trees and clouds in the background. Orange Peel distorts reflected images, sanding and removing the orange peel flattens the paint and then you buff the sanded paint to restore gloss and shine and the end-results are, crisp, clean reflections or D.O.I.

This is the roof

This 2-day class takes place Saturday, February 22nd and Sunday, February 23rd.

Go to Dr. Beasley's website to get signed up for this class, or a future class.

>Click here to sign-up<


Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

***MORE***

Just to PHOTO DOCUMENT the BEFORE condition of the paint for all the experts on social media, here's pictures showing the level of orange peel taken with the 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe in the training garage.

For anyone that doesn't know my photography style,

• First, I take a picture of the CAR, so you know what you're looking at.
• Next, I take a medium shot that will be the area I'm going to zoom in on for CONTEXT.
• Lastly, I zoom in and take a picture of whatever the topic is about - in this case orange peel

Check it out... this is going to be a great training car for the February 2025 Car Detailing Class. Boat class will be in June.

I'll share the sanding tools the class will be using next week.



Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

More...

Here's a parting shot that shows 5 of the 6 cars that will be here for the February class next weekend.

The longest history in the car detailing world for showing YOU what you get to train on BEFORE the class.


Mike

 

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***

One of the owners for one of our training cars had to cancel so I've added this 1970 VW Shorty in it's place.

1970 VW Shorty

This VW Shorty has a custom single-stage, urethane paint job. There's the normal oxidation, common to single stage as will as swirls and scratches. The class will use this car to learn how to do a Budget Detail, or entry level paint correction process using Dr. Beasley's NSP Z1 Ceramic AIO.

For those that might not know?
This VW is called a Shorty because at one time this was a full size VW Bus. At some point in time, someone cut out a section in the middle and shortened the frame to create the shorty version of a full size bus.


Mike

 

[Setec Astronomy]

That's crazy, only in California...er...Florida, would someone do that. I see the air intakes, the engine is in the back under the bed?

 

[Mike Phillips]

That's crazy, only in California...er...Florida, would someone do that. I see the air intakes, the engine is in the back under the bed?

I think this was a popular thing to do back in the 1970's? I'm not sure. I've seen a number of VW Shorty Buses in my life but to be honest, I don't know a lot about them.

I had a car cancel on me and the car that cancelled was for the 3rd class session or topic, which is how to do 1-step Ceramic AIO paint correction so I substituted the VW Shorty. Plus we have the 2013 Mustang for this topic plus,

1. Extreme Prep Wash
2. Wet Wash Engine Detail
3. Canvas cloth convertible top cleaning and protecting
4. Exterior black plastic trim restoration and protection
5. Headlight correction

Mike