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Old 03-22-08, 11:42 AM
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Default Pictures from a photoshoot this weekend

This weekend me and my friends spent a few hours detailing every inch of our cars and grabbed a high quality camera. I picked some of the best pictures for everyone's eyes because I know how much you love em.








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And here's a few pics of the my friend's cars.




Still working out some kinks with the tranny... but all in all I love this Lexus and I wouldn't give it up for anything.
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super shiny!!!! =]
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very nice, especially with the black paint! wow.
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Sweet cars really clean. What kinda camera?
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Looks like we're all doing some spring-cleaning and spring-photog'ing.
Huge props on the detail. She's a BEAUT!

And of the three, I vote your car as the HAWTest!
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Hehe, I'm NEXT

You and your black. Gold is where its at. Super hard reflection and stuff >:]
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mad clean badviper! You did a much better job on the JDM grille than me!

Only thing that bothers me in the pinstripe, i think it'll look 10x cleaner without it

BTW, his car is definitely dark green not black
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Haha yup, sorry guys, it's green.

I'm with you on the pinstripe Maniax, I went to go add a silver CL sticker that matched the trim perfectly and the gold pinstripe just threw it off, ew. If I could remove it safely (which I'm sure there's a method) I would.

Slooooooow, It really feels like the perfect time of year to make sure our rides look their best. And nothing cleans up quite like an ES. (And these second gens just look sexy, gotta give a hand to Lexus.)
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Your ES looks awesome BV22 !!

How'd you get your rims so spotless??? I worked on mine for 2 hours last weekend, and although they turned out pretty good, they still don't look as immaculate as yours....what's your secret??

I especially like this shot



It kinda reminds me of waking up from a dream, seeing that beautiful car, and realizing you must be in heaven....
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Finally the secret to easy rim cleaning is revealed:



And I agree 100% with what you said about waking up from a dream, these cars just seem unrealistic some days!
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OMFG... you make my car look dull.

LOL!!!!

man nice job on the detailing..

looks realllll good!
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Came out really good. Mines is up for a detail soon to. I might as well snap some shots after I'm done.
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Now that's some high quality elbow grease at work! Nice! Wish it was that time of year for me to do something for my cars. A couple of more weeks...

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Ditto about the gold PS it's got to go!!!

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oh yeah - A trick that i've used for the stubborn baked on brake dust is oven cleaner. Just becareful to not get too much on the rubber, I was told by an engineer that it might eat it. I didn't test it so I just took his word for it and cover up the tires with some old rags while I was spraying it. Leave it on for a couple of minutes and clean as you normally would.


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