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Usually they don't fade they get something on them, sometimes hand cream makes them get funny. Steering wheels are hard because all the good tricks either make the steering wheel slippery or the color replacement comes off in your hands. I'd try cleaning it real well make sure it's indeed faded and not just got some gook on it. You don't see a faded steering wheel to often. If it's under warranty I'd make Honda put a new wheel on it. Shoe polish works real good to bring back faded colors especailly on leather, but you have to becareful where you use it because it comes off for a while. So you don't want to use it on seats. You might try a tiny test spot somewhere on the steering wheel. Sometimes you can dye it. depends on how the dye takes to the wheel. The last effort is put a good stitched leather steering wheel cover on it. The kind you have to stitch up.

FWIW, the factory uses a pink primer on the red cars.

Yeah, it is actually the correct tail for a Jager 956. It's just not the correct car.

donno what's it made out of?

Pretty safe. Ever once in a great while you have a problem steam cleaning an engine and it's usually a problem like someone worked on it and didn't put it back correctly or a cracked seal or cover.

The trick with Armor-All is to cut it 50% with distilled water, and once you start using it you have to keep using. It doens't eat plastic but is sucks the natrual moistureizers right out of your plastics causing them to dry rott prematurely.

We also know that kit is a repop of the Hasegawa 962, Hase never did a 956. I can always tell because the panel width where the side marker is, but otherwise you are correct, it's hard to tell the difference. Also if you get a real wide shot of the car (or model) the 956 looks "stubby", comparatively. IMSA was afraid of Porsche dominance, they never thought Porsche would go through the trouble of building a new car. They didn’t take into account Porsche’s creativity and stretching the 956 to make their car fit the new rules, and still dominated every road-racing event for nearly a decade. The mighty 962! Never has there been a more dominate sports car to date.

You need to check the car in with a paint marker and the cust standing there. Prewash the vehicle if needed. And mark everthing with a colored paint marker. Then photo it up. It will save your ass.

Running the ###### thing is more of a headach than doing the jobs.

sheesh sound bad.

Yup I agree on the power polisher. We never used any. It was all done by hand. If you think you want to use one, use a good high quality orbital polisher and don't use any abrasive medium, period. Clears now days are soft and very thin it doesn't take much to burn through on an edge. Practice on your own car before taking to someone's 30K or more car. It is very expensive to repaint even a single panel.

That was actually when we lived in Wisconsin sowing the seeds for KellyMoss Motorsports. It was kind of a convoluted deal. The original owner was renting some space out of my dads shop and one day he up and said he was quiting the detail biz for something in Florida. So my dad picked up the biz from this guy cheap. However, he had not intrest in detailing cars so he gave it to me. It was all kind of pre-established the price structure and the customer base, we just expanded off my dads mechanical shop customers. So I did a lot of Porsches. a rare 1 of 1 AC Cobra, some other weird stuff like 57 T-birds, it was almost always when someone was trying to sell their car or just bought a used car and wanted to look like new. Very few were regulars who had it done every year, but there were a few every couple months got it done. I wasn't that into it either, didn't like the lifetime supply of the product the other guy was using, and ended up going to college. I thought about trying to get back into it a 6 months or so ago, but some other things panned out. The nice thing is it's got low overhead and is mostly labor. You will have to just start doing it for whatever you can get $ wise and prove yourself first you'll know when to charge the big money.

It was some time ago but I owened a high end detail shop where we did high end exotics at $1000 + a pop. What do you want to know? I used a lot of different brushes, rags, towels. The products all have changed, but I like Xylon sp? now. easy to work with. I have found it's one of those things that you can't teach. You either get it or don't and the only way to get it, is by doing it. However, there are some people no matter how hard they try or want to detail they just cannot do it. Sometimes you have to redo your work several times to get it just right. It's hard, like any high end stuff, to build a customer base, but once you get a few and they like you you are set. Always listen to your high end customers right or wrong do what they want. Don't take apart anything that might break be hard to get back together or may rattle later. Red in all variants is the hardest color to do.

They can call it whatever they want but that is a 962C, you can tell by the space between the rear of the front wheel opening and the door. Still looks great, but it's not a 956.

The new '88 C9 Merc

Yup, There was a good question and in all fairness was answered really well by italianhorses.com. The post was pulled for competing website violation. Please, all italianhorses is offering is good informaion. They are not selling anything they don't have a forum, I don't know how that could possibley be competing.. That was pretty much the last straw for me. If they wont allow good information and discussion on the forums they are completely useless. There is no balance or offerance of differening opinions, so all the information is one sided, and whoever is running the show over clearly doesn't have to strength to stand on his own merits so he stacks the deck.

I am not a big fan of Scale Auto Mag. They haven't been exactly inviting or friendly with there website patrons or moderators. I lurk from time to time, I used to post but I wont post there any more.

Here is mine but I planing on expanding as soon as I get the other room in our house finished. Paint booth. And another spot for RC Helis

The kit I wanted to build is lost in the mail, been 6 weeks. I might have to make another selection.

Everyone is afraid of the dog (Bear), but he is afraid of a leaf chasing him when the wind blows. It's the kitty (Jack Sparrow) you have to beware of. He's evil This one just looks mean but he's just a lil french fry (Gizmo)

Oh yeah, I have that one in the same status. and the Diablo with opening doors. I have had every intention on building every model I got. The ones least likely to get built any time soon are those hard to find rare, oop, kits that I only have one of. I am a bit more likely to build the ones that I can replace easy or have dups of.

Full throttle I have an RS4/3Pro A Tamiya Porsche GT1 and some things that fly Trex 250 I just got built. A couple sub micro helis

I got a few more back burners than I would like. I will up some fotos later perhaps. Clearveiw Tamiya CLK Merc Revell Diablo Johan 500K Special Limo AMT Nova - for obvious reasons Revell Porsche GT1 - no real solution to the rear wheel problem. It will never look right with the same size wheel tire combo all the way around. 67 Eleanor conversion 57 Chevy ProMod w/ scratch built tube frame Tamiya 787B Mazda - Broken body bits Revell old 55 Cheve with opening everything Monogram??? been so long I forgot now, 51?? Ford PU with lift and superswapers. Linburg Crown Vic LAPD Monogram Porsche Speedster, modified "SuperSpeedster" Good idea poorly executed. Revell AG F2005, bad paint and other issues - starting over with new kit. Current WIP Revell AG Ferrari 250 which is on the verge of being a back burner.

I don't know how you can trust him or anyone at Mclaren after what has happed over the past two years with Ferrari and his driving last year.

Yes, that has already come up as well as being banned from the whole 09 season.