Are you kidding?

So, you know those window cleaner thingies most gas stations have?  The ones that have a squeegee on one side and a sponge on the other side.  A sponge that is covered in a netting designed to scratch those pesky bugs off your windshield.  Yeah, that’s the thing.

I’ve seen a few people actually wash their cars with those.  Most of the time it’s an old beater with a less than perfect paint job anyway.

Not today.  This relatively new, $60,000 Mercedes SUV is being washed with the windshield squeegee.  The whole thing.  First I thought if I guy can shell out $60,000 for a car, you’d think he could afford 8 bucks every month or so for one of our touchless carwashes.  Then I realized what he was doing was even worse for the vehicle than not washing it in the first place.

So, NOTE TO GENERAL PUBLIC:  Do not wash your vehicle with the window squeegee at the gas station.  They are designed for scrubbing bugs off glass, which is a hell of a lot harder to scratch than your paint.

Thanks.  Now I have fulfilled my FCC Public Service Announcement quota for this year.

Wax on, wax off.

Got out the old TR-3 and waxed the 2 door today.  It was a little hot out there working on the car, but nice none the less.  If you’ve seen the 2 door, you know that it is in desperate need of a new paint job, and of course waxing it isn’t going to cover up all the surface rust.  But it did make a big difference, as you can see in the pictures below.  The pictures on the left are from when I first washed it, right after getting it.  The pictures on the right are from today, after waxing.  Close up you can still see the faded paint and the pock marks from the surface rust, but at least driving down the road it looks pretty good.  Well, except for the dents on the passenger side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stable of Ford LTDs

Ok, I’m revitalizing this blog, after letting it flounder for the last couple of years.  I’m starting off by posting some pictures of the four 70’s LTDs I have.

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