NW Auto Salon - 2 Thumbs UP!!!

I would like to publicly thank Blake, Ben and their team for doing an amazing job detailing my '66 Shelby GT350 with a Paxton supercharger last week, and for doing whatever it took to get it done for my show on Saturday morning.

It didn't arrive here from Oklahoma until Wednesday night, so Blake and his guys came out to my house to work on it both Thursday and Friday. (it needed a lot of cleaning and polishing work to make it pristine) They literally worked from 10 AM until 11 PM on Friday night to get every last finishing touch done on it so it would be ready for formal judging on Saturday morning.

With the help of their work, it won an MCA Gold award which is the highest award available for it in its class.

I think that Blake took some before and after pics while they were working on it. Hopefully he'll post some photos here for everyone to see the improvements that they made to it.

Thanks again guys, I really appreciate your help.

John

 

Congrats on the win John!!!!!

And, +1 on NWAS!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!

Mike

 

Hi John,

We've only met once or twice I think, and I didn't realize you were even at the event. I did see your winning car and it is awesome! Just so happens I was there also with my KR I bought last year in Monterey, and after a ton of work ($$$) I also won an MCA Gold in Division V. I missed the awards ceremony Sunday, but was there all day Saturday. Here's a pic of my car, and hope to see you around next time. Todd
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John, now I am especially disappointed that I missed coming out on Sunday! I over slept then got caught up in some other projects and by the time I remembered, it was already past 2pm and figured it was too late to start over there....

 

John, it was an honor and congratulations on a well deserved win for a very special vehicle. Thank you for allowing the crew into your space. If anyone has any doubts whether a true award winning level detail can be achieved remotely, this should put the doubts to rest. When given a bright and spacious garage to work with..anything can be achieved.

 

Hi Todd -

Sorry I missed you. I was there all day on Saturday and actually had quite a bit of free time that day (unlike Sunday). It would have been nice to catch up.

Congrats on your Division V Gold. I'm sure you put a lot of work and money into your car to get it to that level. It's not an easy thing to do in any of the divisions.

I guess I should have mentioned in my initial post that mine was entered in Division I, "Concours Trailored", just to be a bit more specific about it; but I actually didn't think there would be anybody reading this here who would be familiar with the different divisions in the MCA.

I'd really like to thank Blake and his team for everything they did with the car. They literally had 3 guys spend 4 hours underneath my car cleaning and detailing the suspension and undercarriage (yeah, 12 man hours underneath the car); before they started on the parts of the car that anyone can actually see! I'll post some pics as soon as I have them.

 

Sorry we missed you Dave. I'm sure you would have had a good time. Hopefully we'll catch up one of these days.

 

Thanks again for your help with this. I appreciate it and look forward to working with you guys again soon.

 

Woot, woot, congrats NWAS!

 

You guys do a great job as was proven when you came to my place to do three cars. The only issue we had was, that guy the at no longer works with you, undoing all the good work by constantly trying to hump the left front fender of my SLR. Trust me, Blake has pictures. Did he get help for that? What do you call that, an autophile?

 

Sorry for the delay, but I finally have some pics to add to this.

Thank you again NWAS.
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John, your new garage and all the CARS look great!!

Nice work NWAS!

 

Thanks Gary. I'm very happy with their work.

 

John:

Do you have to put the ramps on your lifts to get your cars on and off? That's the only thing I hate about my 4-Post lift. I can't keep the ramps on the lift because the garage door won't shut with them on. So, every time I take the Countach out or bring it back, I have to stop, get out, put the ramps down, drive on, take the ramps off, etc....

I've thought about ordering the aluminum ramps since they weigh a lot less than the steel ones!

BTW, your garage looks fantastic!!!!

Mike

 

Awesome garage. I have those exact same lifts! And I moved mine in deep enough so that I can close the garage door with the ramps on.

 

Currently I have to remove the ramps to close the garage doors. If I move the lifts forward about 4", I can leave the ramps in place and I may decide to do that. I do a lot of work and have quite a bit of traffic in front of the cars (lifts) though, so I placed them as close to the garage doors as I could when I put them in. I generally keep cars on top of the lifts that I don't use very often, so I really don't have to move the ramps on and off much. I have aluminum ramps on my lift in the front garage - they're definitely MUCH lighter than the steel ones that come with these lifts.

 

I'll probably do the same at some point.