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05-15-2002, 01:33 AM
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Myth or Lies we been hearing?
Ok,
The "myth": show cars do NOT have a wax on them. Most owners just polish it before a show and store it off season. The "lie": many wax manufactures say that there stuff is the #1 on show cars. For example; Griots Best of Show Wax, Zymol Waxes, Meguiars high tech wax, etc. Obviously we cant have both, so which is right? is there a myth about show cars or have we been mislead by advertising? 
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05-17-2002, 12:17 AM
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A friend of mine in a custom painter. He has painted dozens of cars that are show cars. He recommends Meguires #7 for show cars. Wax is a sacrifical coating inrended to protect the paint from the elements. Most show cars never see the light of day.
Generally, all that protective stuff has a slight hazing effect. Try it for yourself sometime. Get the finish all cleaned, clayed and polished. Then add a coat of wax to half the hood.. On darker colors, you can usually see that the polished area is deeper in color than the waxed side. Recently, I detailed the finish on my "new" '92 525 BMW. It's magma red (fire engine red) I did the wash with Dawn, clay and polish with Meguires #7. Then I applied a coat of Eagle One Wet with a randon orbital polisher. I could actually see the paint was darker and richer where I had applied the wax. A lot has been said about Zaino, I've never had the pleasure of using it. I guess I'm too cheap and lazy to buy anything I can't get at the store locally. I also think different waxes do better on certain colors. I tried several on the red (no clear coat) before I found Eagle One that seemed to work for me. I used to be in search of the Holy Grail of Shine. The reality is, find one on sale that works for you and use it A random orbital polisher will do more for you than anyting else. It applies the wax/polish evenly without streaks.
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#4
05-17-2002, 10:13 AM
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Serious, high-dollar garage queen concours cars are not waxed...no sacrificial layer needed if you live under a car cover indoors in a climate-controlled garage, eh?
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05-31-2002, 03:48 PM
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Speaking from car show experience, the "Pebble Beach" purist types buff the paintwork at best, but use no artificial additives (no tire dressing either)!
One of the purist restoration techniques is to restore every aspect of the vehicle...right down to the paint compound used by the factory! Some paint looks better than others, and I have seen some of the owners "enhance" their vehicles with wax (hand-applied, of course) to make up for the flaws inherent in the paint technology of that era. In the regular car show scene...waxing is the norm.
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05-31-2002, 05:58 PM
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No wax on this baby
When I was a kid, a neighbor owned a perfect '34 Packard 1101 Conv't and from what I can recall, it was a lacquer finish, so I don't think he ever washed it. At least I never saw him do so -- used some sort of special cleaning agent. Definitely a trailer queen.
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