buffing out paint-- any suggestions??

By the way, where abouts in Wi are you.. I travel from SW to NE from school to home.. and good ol Dennis is right in the middle of both.. lol.... but about those scratches... the kind that you get when YOUR kids lean up against it? Or someone elses.. lol.

My own kids have been known to lean on this car...I made the decision a long time ago to USE my cars, not just let them sit in the garage. Chips and scratches still drive me nuts, though. My daughter learned to drive last year on this Camaro....those memories alone are worth it to me! If you want to draw some attention, put a 16 year old female with long brown hair at the wheel of a red '68 Camaro and go cruising down main st...

Anyway, I've live in one part or another of WI almost my whole life, right now I live just east of the twin cities, near the MN border...where do you guys live? Have you ever thought of starting up a Wisconsin Camaro or classic car club? There's one in Minnesota called "Northstar Camaro club."

Terry

I know you weren't asking the question of me but I noticed you said SW WI. Are you starting from the SW area of WI and going NE or just through SW WI? Reason I ask is that I live in La Crosse.

Man, there are quite a few WI people hanging out here...do any of you know of crusing events in Wisconsin? I've been going to some in Minneapolis/St Paul, but I'd like to check out some around here--

Terry

I start out in Platteville(SWWI) Then go "home" in Algoma(NEWI) My '88 Is being sotred and will be worked on in Waupaca though. And Terry, I am actually surprised, when I used to be a regular, It was just me and Dennis from Wi... glad to see there finally a few more.. lol. As to the cruises, for Cambirds I don't know of any around here.. wish there were though.

I do wish there was more of a cruise scene around here, every weekend we go down to st paul mn there is a pretty good cruise scene. I used to live in Oshkosh, most of my relatives live in Green Bay so I know the "Fox River Valley" pretty well...AKA the "Redneck Riviera" !!! I know the Waupaca area a little, I used to go through there now and then. I used to go to Iola for the Iola Old Car show, haven't gone for a few years. I've lived all over in Wi. at one time or another.

Terry

I did finally get the opportunityy to get to the Iola show this year, lots of fun.. had no iidea there would be such a huge swap meet as well. And if you think that the FRV is the redneck area.. go about 60 miles east.. LOL.. This is the area that thinks filling a Camaro's gas tank full of red christmas sugar ups the resale value.. Too bad it costs about 1200.00 to repair.. grr..

The stuff that I use is Mequires. Best stuff on the market. I start with a #6 and work up to #1, all by hand. You want to use lint free Terrycloth towels, from a automotive paint supply store. They must be silicone free!

For between rub out cleanings I use Maguire's Final Inspection. Heck I even clean sun glasses with the stuff. #6 will even take out light scuff marks from a paint trade, as long as it was a gentle one. Charles

If she's still driving it when she turns 18 Ill drool. Charles

THAT's just what I'm afraid of! Some people I know think I'm crazy letting my daughter drive a car that has

Terry

Yeah I would be worried about that too.. I mean if I would have had that car with that kind of hp.. I would have killed myself, in fact I did my share of damage with my little 135hp... Glad I only had the 6 to learn on. Damn.. did I just say that? Lol

That's funny. Hell, I once owned a purple Gremlin! I hope I don't get kicked off this newsgroup for writing that!

Do you want to hear a good one? When my brother was 16 I sold him my '68 GTO 400 4 barrel 4 speed, well he ended up doing doughnuts in our neighbors lawn one night, then came home and fell asleep behind the wheel...had been drinking...the next day he denied everything until my dad pointed out that the wheel wells were completely filled up with mud! (this was our idea of fun in Wisconsin!) He had to sell it before it killed him...

Terry

Make that cardinal rule number one:

He drives, she looses the car!

because if he screws up, guess who's mailbox the winner of the law suit goes on?

That's right, yours, not his parents. Yours!

So instill in her, if you heard she let anyone drive the car, she looses the car!

Tough love is the best love sometimes, he could kill her and cost you your life's savings!

Refinish King

I had a beige gremlin:

It was my everyday car, with a 258/6, and it smoked the tires for blocks. my other car was a 67 Firebird, that when I bought it. Had the overhead cam 6, with the timing belt.

Time to put in the BBC, it was my 10 second toy, and it was sure fun making money on Fridays and Saturdays on the Hutchinson Parkway, Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, and the Connecting Highways in Queens New York!

Refinish King

Well, technically not sure yet, haven't seen it yet, they say its a pontiac

Hey RK, I was told that you are the guy to talk to about what method of stripping the paintjob on a car to use. I saw a show on TLC called "Rides" where this company in Texas was building "Eleanors" for people out of base mustangs they found in junkyeards etc. Anyway, they used this Bakingsoda blasting method. It was like powerwashing a house, but with baking soda. They said it was fast, easy, biodegradable, and didn't harm the subber, windows, or metal. Heard of this? If not, what method would you recommend for a VERY inexperienced perons with stripping paint?

good advice. Tough love is the way sometimes, depends on the kids. Some of my daughter's friends definitely should not have the responsibility of a muscle car. I don't THINK my daughter will let anyone else drive my camaro, she'd be too ashamed to face me if something happened...oh I can feel my hair going more grey every day......! It's tough, I want both my kids to have the love of old cars in their veins, but not kill themselves in the process!

oh god, maybe there should be a new newsgroup, alt.gremlins or something! ...I went off the road & smashed up my Gremlin, then coincidentally I saw a Hornet for sale, it was bad too so I put them together into a hybrid looking body, and I called it the "Gremnet", I'm not kidding! We bolted on gremlin and hornet chrome pieces on it, painted it primer, and looked for an AMC 401 to put in it...ended up coming to my senses soon after & getting rid of it...s*it, I hate to admit these stories on this NG...