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Thanks To European Motors: Exotic Porsches, Ferraris, BMWs, and other special interest automobiles were on display at the Porsche Open House hosted by Jeff Wilkin and his friendly staff. You should see his Harley Davidson! A neat clean, well-organized shop and interesting show room are always on display. Beverages and snacks were provided for everyone to enjoy. Thanks to Jeff we had an ideal place to get together on the first "warm" Saturday of the year. The friendly atmosphere makes European Motors a great place to visit anytime you are in the Cedar Rapids area. Lujack's, Another Porsche Club Partner: You may be the winner of a fantastic Porsche 911 metal enameled sign. It comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity from Porsche. It's original cost was well over $100.00 and can not be duplicated. This artistic memorabilia item has been donated by Lujack's, thanks to their General Manager, A. J. Singh. We will honor his request that it be used to encourage Porsche Club activities. This item will be on display at our events this year and will be awarded to a participating member. Watch future newsletters to see the criterion as it develops. Gigantic Porsche Club Trophy: The Historic Porsche Club Traveling Trophy has been found! It was located by the historic Tom Bruch in his historic Porsche garage. This annual traveling trophy recognizes enthusiastic club participation and special contributions of one member each year. It will also be on display at club events and will be awarded to a deserving member for activities this year with his or her name permanently engraved on the brass plate. It could be yours! John Dyson
April
Event – A Driving Day On Sunday, April 22nd, there will be a Porsche Drive. This had previously been advertised as a Rally. We don’t want to keep anti-Rally fans away, so it will primarily be a drive. To participate the group will meet in the Hartwig Motors (629 S. Riverside Drive) south car lot, next to Bruegger’s Bagels, at 10:00am. Hartwig’s in on Riverside Drive, south of the railroad
underpass, in Iowa City. This on
highway 6 & 1. There are
several ways to get there. From the
south: Highway 218 to the Highway 1
exit, turn right onto Highway 1. From
the east: Exit I 80- at the Highway
1 exit, turn left and follow the highway through town.
It will be on you right, after you have crossed the river and turned
left. From the west:
take Highway 218 south, exit the Highway 1 exit, turn left onto Highway
1. If you plan to go call Mary
Milavetz 319-351-5174 or e-mail at, mary-teresi@uiowa.edu.
If you run late finding the place or getting there call cell phone
319-430-4613. New Members: Welcome to new members: John and Joanne O'Hara of Peosta, IA. They have a 2001 Boxster. Thad Kiedaisch, from Keokuk, IA. Thad has a 911 Carrera. Wayne Melzer, from Cedar Rapids, IA. Wayne has a Red 1988 944. Your editor has an apology to make. In the last newsletter I mistakenly told you that new members, Gary and Cheryl Sharp had a 944. They actually have a 2000 996 C4. We look forward to seeing you all at our events this year. For
Sale: 1995 993 Cabriolet- Polar
silver, black top. Classic grey full leather supple seats, 17" cup wheels.
14K miles. Perfect, all original except tires. Stu Lehr, W Des Moines, Iowa
photon4@aol.com The Clubs Web Page Jason Walter is our Porsche-webmiester. He is doing a great job of keeping up the Central Iowa Region page. If you wish to look at the page go to, www.pca.org/cia If you have any ideas for the site or contributions please let Jason know at jasonray@sbt.net . Once again, please visit our website, www.pca.org/cia Check out the pictures and our events calendar. Information Needed and/or Updated We would like to thank all of you who have responded and sent your information to us. We still hope to hear from more of you and we are in need of your phone numbers and e-mail address. There are times that we might need to contact you about an upcoming event that we don’t have time to send a mailing. Please consider getting this information to us. The bad news is that some of you have changed you e-mail and forgotten to let us know about the change. We have been making it a practice to send e-mail reminders just before an event. This has prompted us to check on some of the e-mails that did not get through. If you have a FAX number we can send information by that method. Send information to : Editor, Maralee Dyson: jmdyson@home.com, or 837 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240, or (319) 337-5367. President, John Dyson: john-dyson@uiowa.edu, or 837 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240, or (319) 337-5367
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Details: The Perfect Shine by David Bynon, San Diego Region (from THE WINDBLOW WITNESS) Ed: David Bynon operates the website Autopia-Carcare.com.Visit this site for more information about car and as a source for most of the products and tools seen in this column. People often ask me how I make and keep my cars looking so picture-perfect."What wax do you use?" is the question that comes up most often. Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy. If you want the perfect shine, you have to do a little work, and you have to work to keep it maintained. If your car's paint is relatively new and in excellent condition, getting the perfect shine is actually pretty easy. What is the perfect shine, anyway? The perfect shine comes when the paint surface is in good condition, free of all contaminants, polished, protected, glazed and waxed. Let's look at each of these requirements individually. Good Paint Condition For the
first 12 to 18 months of a new car's life, the paint is relatively oxidation
free and in good condition. If you maintain your new car's paint with regular
washing and protection, oxidation will remain minimal and cleaning the paint
will be a minor task. Plan to Free of Contaminates As you drive your car; debris from the road (i.e., tar, oil, bugs, etc.) will lodge itself on your car's paint. The longer this debris is allowed to remain, the more difficult it is to remove. This is just one reason that regular washing is so important. Your car also will attract other contaminates as it sits outside. Birds, bugs and neighborhood kids seem to have a natural attraction to beautiful cars. These contaminates must be removed. You can't wax over them and expect to get a show car finish. Polished Polishing is necessary to remove minor blemishes, including surface scratches, swirl marks, pitted areas (minor road stone nicks), and scuffs. When polished, the paint finish will feel perfectly smooth. Your hand and polishing towel will literally glide over the surface. Feeling a perfectly polished car is a stimulating experience for most car nuts. There's nothing quite like the polished fenders of a Porsche, Ferrari, Corvette or my neighbor's Woody (woof!). Protected Paint is protected when it's sealed from the elements and contaminants. Paste waxes, both natural and synthetic, used to be the best sealants. Not any more. Today's king of sealants is the acrylic polymer. These micro-thin coatings are 5 to 10 times more durable than the best waxes and offer extended protection from the elements. Their super slick surface reflects more light than all but the best waxes. Glazed Here's a term that's grossly misused in detailing products. Glazes are paint treatments used to fill small surface scratches and swirl marks. Most glazes are made from a blend of carnauba waxes and silicones. Polymer glazes are also available. If using a wax-based glaze, the glaze's filling ability generally only lasts a matter of days before swirl marks and light scratches reappear. If you've ever had your baby professionally detailed only to have swirl marks reappear a week later, now you know why. Waxed Waxing is the final step of the perfect shine. We're not talking just any wax here; we're talking about a pure, natural carnauba wax. Pure carnauba waxes don't have cleaning properties or synthetic compounds. They are made from a blend of carnauba waxes, bees wax and natural oils. It's this quality show car wax that gives the paint depth and warmth. I know, I know! It kind of sounds like we're talking about a fine wine or something. Just don't underestimate the value of a great wax to final results of the finished product. Now that you know the six requirements for the perfect shine, I'll share with you my personal tips that keep my cars turning heads. The first thing to know is that I treat my toys differently than my daily driver. It's very difficult to maintain a perfect shine on a daily driver, unless you only drive it a mile or two a day. Show cars (toys) are easier, because their job is to stay beautiful. The Show Car Finish My toys get the show car treatment 2-3 times a year. In between these weekend long events, they get a simple weekly maintenance that I will explain later. Here's the basic weekend tasks (paintwork only): 1. I wash the car twice with a high concentration car wash from Eimann Fabrik, called Powerwash+. It's a professional strength product that removes the most stubborn dirt. 2. After the wash and dry, I examine the paint with my hand. If I find rough areas, I use a synthetic clay bar and lubricant to remove the contaminates. I finish the cleaning process by going over all of the painted surfaces with Pinnacle Paintwork Cleansing Lotion. It's the best pre-wax cleaner I have found and it acts as a mild polish to remove oxidation. To get the best cleaning action, I use quality cotton terrycloth over foam applicators to apply Pinnacle Paintwork Cleansing Lotion, and a 100% cotton terrycloth towel to remove and buff. 3. After using the clay bar and the Paintwork Cleansing Lotion, the paint will literally squeak. You will also be able to see all of the paint defects. It's time to get out the polish and treat each area of damaged paint. If I find heavy scuffs or surface scratches that I can feel with my fingernail, I repair these areas with Eagle One Scratch Remover. Swirl marks and other minor blemishes I polish out using 3M Imperial Hand Glaze (it's a polish, not a glaze) or Meguiar's Professional Hand Polish. I also use one of these polishes to go over any area where I used Eagle One Scratch Remover to restore the paints full luster. 4. Once perfectly polished, it's time to seal the paint and lock in the beauty. For this I use a product that has been on the market for nearly 14 years, and has proven its quality to me again and again. Klasse All-In-One is a cleaner and polymer that immediately seals and protects paint with an elastic non-chip, shrink-proof, heat and scratch resistant, long lasting acrylic finish. Did he say "cleaner"? I sure did. Klasse All-In-One will remove the oils left behind by the polish and your hands, to produce a very brilliant finish. 5. When you're finished sealing, you'll be looking at a beautiful finish. Your first thought will be "hey, the car looks awesome I must be done." Not so fast, bucko! In about two hours, after the Klasse All-In-One has had a chance to cure, you'll begin seeing swirls and other imperfections come to the surface. Klasse All-In-One is so thin it can't fill the micro, hair-line surface scratches. To hide these imperfections, you must use a glaze. I like the companion to Klasse All-In-One, called Klasse Sealant Glaze. You can apply 2-3 layers of Klasse Sealant Glaze as necessary to hide the swirls in your paint. This is the most effective product I've found for troubled black and dark blue cars. 6. You're almost there. The final step. The literal icing on the cake is the waxing. Many will ask "after sealing and glazing, why wax?" The answer lies in the richness of color, depth and clarity that only a high quality carnauba wax can bring out on a polished surface. For this job I reach for only two products: Blitz Wax or Pinnacle Souveran. Blitz Wax is a hard wax. It dries hard and provides a lot of depth and warmth. Depending on weather conditions, it is cursed with static buildup, which makes it attract dust. Pinnacle Souveran is a true show car wax. It's very pricey ($8.75 per ounce compared to Blitz Wax at $1.40 per ounce), but the results are no less than stunning. Pinnacle Souveran wax brings out a warmth and depth on my Speed Yellow Porsche 996 that I have not been able to duplicate with any other wax. On steps 4 through 6 I use a quality foam applicator to apply and a Miracle Towel to remove and buff. Nothing else works quite like the Miracle Towel. It's lint free (really!) and it's tiny micro hooks pull the excess sealant or wax away from the paint for faster buffing. Perfect Shine Maintenance If you've finished the six steps to a show car, "perfect shine" finish, you'll need to do some light maintenance to keep it looking great. If it's a true show car (toy), keep it covered. Even while neatly tucked away in the garage you should keep your car covered. This keeps dust and pollutants off of the beautiful finish, and the wax won't evaporate as quickly (yes, wax evaporates).Next, plan to do a Quick Detailing (http://www.autopia- carcare.com/quickdetailing.html) on your car after each outing. Choose a detailing spray containing a good carnauba wax. This will replenish the wax lost through evaporation and the whole process will normally take no more than 5 to 10 minutes. With a good Quick Detailing program, you'll find that you can cut washing back to every couple of weeks. So, in the long run, Quick Detailing will save you time and keep your car beautiful. Buffing Up the Daily Driver While all of the steps above will work wonders on the daily driver, the reality is that the hard work will only last a few weeks before you need to do it all over again. To keep your daily driver looking its best, perform steps 1 through 4 every four to six months, and wash your car weekly with a mild car shampoo like P21S Bodywork Shampoo or Pinnacle Bodywork Shampoo. Use a good Quick Detailing spray after each washing to restore the shine.
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