My idea of old school supercar heaven, Italian flair mated to American muscle.
During the 80′s when everyone had the archetypal Countach poster on their bedroom wall, I had a black Pantera GT5S on mine, fast forward several years and I actually got to detail the very one used in the poster in preparation for a Classic & Sportscar mag feature (I have a small version of the poster on my unit wall)
This is the 6th RHD Pantera I have been fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of detailing, which when you look at the small numbers of RHD ones in the UK its pretty good going.
Onto the car, this was found lingering unloved in storage, and has been purchased for a bit of track fun, I was asked to carry out a correction detail on it; a) to give it a bit of a shine and b) to assess what areas could do with painting.
Car had been washed and all the external trim removed, so just a fine layer of dust to remove when I got there.
Out with the Brinkmann
Paint readings were all over the place, with rear deck and roof being the only panels reading ‘normal’ levels of around 140 – 180, the rest were anything from 600 – 1200, but on a 33 year old Italian car you would expect to have had some work at various stages in its life.
As far a pad and product combo’s it was anything from 3M FCP and a compounding, through to SV Pro CF on a finishing pad, as no 2 panels appeared to have the same consistency.
Some before & after shots
Both the owner and I were satisfied with the amount of correction achieved, there were 1 or 2 deep RDS that we to deep to safely remove, it was just some poor colour matching in some areas that let the overall finish down, most notable being the RH headlight.
Once all the correction was completed, the whole car was refined with Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Pro in preparation for some Swissvax Divine
While the wax was curing I gave the exhaust a quick polish up, dressed the tyres and sealed the wheels.
The wax was then buffed off.
After a break for late afternoon tea and a natter with the owner, I returned an hour or so later and rebuffed the paintwork to remove any oils from outgassing.
And the finished (still minus external trim) result.
Now this is what you call wide tyres 
Loud noises come from here
