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Magic Detail * £565,000 Ferrari F40 * Light Correction Detail

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Hey guys and girls,

I'd say Happy New Year, but it'll soon be Christmas again :doublesho Time has flown by without so much as a peep out of us for several months. Well, we are still here, extremely busy, and are continuing to support DW :thumb: Some changes have been made internally which should hopefully free up some time to share our work with you on a more regular basis... so we'll start with this piece of car porn as our first of 2014 :argie:

The Ferrari F40 is a car needing no introduction. It's the original pin up, and I'm sure most of us at some point or other as a child have had an F40 poster on our bedroom wall :)

I'll skip to the good bit, as washing an F40 and moving it around is a bit unflattering for a guy of 6'4!! They're very low, very cramped, and very temperamental at firing up :lol:

With all the washing and decontamination phases completed the car was blow dried inside and then inspected for damage..









After calibrating the Positector P200 (composite gauge for those who don't know) some paint measurements were taken, which revealed the rear deck had been painted - could see this with the naked eye, but always nice to confirm your suspicions with a gauge - understandably there's not a lot to work with which is why you can see the carbon weave through the paint, but even so there's more than you probably imagine... a pad and polish combination trial was started, and eventually settled on one which worked with minimal paint removal and maximum defect removal. I was using the Rupes Bigfoot system, just for reference.



Before & After..





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The interior and engine bay were also cleaned.. the carbon door cards infact were polished using the Mini Bigfoot machine, but unfortunately these pictures didn't turn out for some reason :mad:







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Finally, once everything was completed it was time to take some shots of the finished product. The chosen LSP was Mitchell & King 'Philip' wax, a high content carnauba blend from our friends up in Scotland.











Just for reference the 512BB in the background was another classic Ferrari we were working on at the same time as the F40, and was subject to a massive overhaul! We'll do a write up on that if we get time. Generally we work on quite a few rare cars like this, a Ferrari Dino is currently with us (and being finished off tomorrow infact), so for those who haven't already got us on Facebook, please check us out and give us a 'like' to keep up to date with daily activity!!

Thanks for reading, and as always any questions, comments and feedback are welcome.

Best wishes,

Matt.
Magic Detail | Altrincham | t: 07786 385538. | e: info@magicdetail.co.uk
 
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