Final Stages of Paint Finishing on the 71 Fury Police Car Clone

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My son used to work for a company called AutoGeek in Stuart. They sell car detailing products on the net and also conduct detailing "Boot Camps" that consist of a weekend long hands on seminar on detailing. I was able to get the Fury in there this past weekend and the "Teacher" and his 21 students who paid $750 tuition for the course, worked on finishing the paint. They did a 5 step process starting with 3000 grit machine pads, followed by 5000 grit machine pads, liquid compound, polish and finally a jeweling polish. The last step will happen later this week when they will wax or seal the paint. Here is a link to their work (they did 2 other cars in this class, a 1940 Chevy and a Buick Grand National). Jim

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pic ... post865668

 
You can make a science out of anything. More than once people amazed me at what "tweaks" they came up to do something better than others I would never have thought of in 100 years. Visited a workshop for bodywork once even though I have quite some experience from my apprenticeship and working on my cars and I didn't regret the investment. Problem however it's getting lost again if you get it shown once and don't have too many occasions to apply this new knowledge that's why I did not go on.
 
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I met these people and they came from all over the country and as far away as Israel to take this course. Most of them have detailing businesses and some are aspiring to do the same. I think the company throws in a credit for $200 worth of products. Jim
 
The decals finally arrived and are on the car. The exterior is done and ready for the local shows. The number 1002 was my Sgt's shield number before getting promoted to Lieutenant. "Safety Unit B" was the command I was assigned to in 1971 when this Fury was built. Jim fury1.jpgfury2.jpgfury3.jpgfury4.jpgfury1.jpgfury5.jpg

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Damn that looks great.
Anything you weren't able to do that you wish you had?
Or is it exactly what you envisioned.
Very nice job. Congrats.

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Cool nice work. It is great to have all the personal reference to the decals
 
I have to say that the car came out exactly as I envisioned it. I'm planning to mount a small non-functional roof antenna on the roof between the roof light and the " Call 911" sticker and having 2 license plates made with the car number on them. I have a Motorola radio, auxilliary speedometer and a hand held spotlight which will be mounted inside and the project will be complete. Jim
 
WOW...... That is the shineyest police car I have ever seen. Looks great.
Maybe find a vintage donut box now.

Were the dents from the heads bouncing off the hood and deck lid pounded out.... or filled.....?:faint:
 
Oh, yes. Now the alleged perpetrator has all these liberal civil rights and a thousand cell phones clicking away at every scene. It's the cops who have the handcuffs on.
A good head slam on the hood always tamed the worst of the unruly maggots.
If you pissed off a cop enough to earn yourself a head slam, then you most likely deserved it.
 
I bought the siren from "The Siren Man" in Tuscon for $350. The light was given to me by a friend but I needed to buy a reproduction base for about $100. A complete light will run about $300 to $350 on e bay from time to time. The set of decals were a little pricey at $445 and took over 3 months to get. I'm having some magnets made to cover the words "Police" and have white boat canvas covers for the light and siren to make the car street legal on the way to car shows.
 
Mechanically, the car is basically stock with a 360 which got a 4 barrel from a previous owner in place of the original 2 barrel. Some of the ones I drove in NYC had 6 cylinder engines as we patrolled mostly midtown Manhattan where the speed limit was 30 mph and we rarely went over 50 mph. Jim
 
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