Supreme Detailing #1

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This is a beauty contest that takes place in Pebble Beach California, in this article that I will divide in parts because it is too long for a single post, you will know the daily life of Detailers who prepare cars for contests.

The article covers the work that details do to present the car at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

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Tips from Griot’s Garage on the Supreme Detail

Most of us will never reach this level of detailing with our vehicles. However, some of the problem areas and solutions are handy if you’re as meticulous at maintaining your vehicle as we are.

Detailing a Car for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Is a Two-Week Process

We talk to the experts at Griot’s Garage about how to prep a winning show car.

By: Rory Jurnecka | Photography by: John W. Bunker III 14 de agosto de 2019

Walk down the 18th fairway at the 2019 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on August 18 and you’ll see rows and rows of gleaming, immaculate collector cars—all special in their own way. What you won’t see, unless you get there early enough in the morning, is the frenzied rush to prepare each car for judging. Winning at a concours like Pebble Beach doesn’t just require the best car, it also requires the best car preparation. Arrive at Pebble Beach at dawn as the show cars are driven to their spots on the grass and you’ll see some of the final preparation right before your eyes as entrants rush to make sure their cars are as spotless as possible before the judges arrive to determine their fate.

To get a better idea of the level of preparation required to win at a venue like Pebble Beach, we talked to the experts at Griot’s Garage, a Tacoma, Washington based car care product supplier whose products are no stranger to the concours lawn. Sam Battersby, Griot’s Garage product specialist and Forrest Davis, Griot’s Motors shop foreman sat down with us to share some tips of the trade and give us the inside story on the challenges of making sure concours vehicles are looking their best on show day. Here’s what we found out.

AM: Getting a car ready for concours is a massive process. Where do you even start?

SB: Most cars, the first thing you’ll start with in concours prep is taking the wheels off, getting it up in the air, and then making a detailing checklist and a correctness checklist. If there’s an oil cap that needs to be changed out or re-plating a metal fastener.

FD: If you have a car and it wasn’t necessarily restored, it was just really well maintained, you’re looking at the zinc coatings on little parts. You know, this is supposed to be black oxide and this is supposed to be yellow zinc and this is supposed to be chrome and does that fuel filter have the correct screen printing on it? It gets really hardcore with the judges. And the judges know. If you’re going to Pebble Beach, they know. They’ve done days of research making sure they know what they’re looking at and if something’s been changed or not.

The biggest stuff first is usually how I tackle it. Usually if you’re going to show a car, it’s already close and you just start chipping away at what’s going to take the longest. If you have to send a fastener out and it takes three months to get back from plating, you need to prepare for that.

SB: I’d probably start with all that, make sure everything’s correct on the car, then begin your cleaning and detailing. I would definitely start with engine bay, wheels and tires and undercarriage first because that’s where you’re going to have the most dirt and grime. You’re probably also going to have overspray [from cleaning product] onto other areas so you want to get that done first before you get to paint, glass and interior, and so on. That’s normally the hardest part of concours prep, I’d say, because it’s very tedious. It’s a dirty job. You’re not working with paint, you’re working with oil and grease and road grime.

Next week. You will know:

* Forrest Davis talks about his role at Griot Garage

* How long does it take to prepare a car for the contest

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Papi Detailer

Fonte....: https://www.geek-garage.com/2019/08/25/tips-from-griots-garage-on-the-supreme-detail/

Original: https://www.automobilemag.com/news/detailing-a-car-for-the-pebble-beach-concurso-delegance-is-a-two-week-process/