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And at the end of all that work.......









.... it's still an Astra

My thoughts

I started to nod off when he snowboarded it, or something similar, then noticed how far the scroll bar on the right had to go, so gave up. It was a bit like watching one of those Ashes to Ashes type programs - the late 60's / early 70's Opel, the current Vauxhall thing, and the 1980's highlights in his hair!

The most interesting thing on there was the red Opel GT/J in the Vauxhall dealers, a car I very nearly bought when I was in Germany, but got a Spitfire 1500 instead.

Ahem, this was discussed a while ago on PH:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=570484&hw=vxrmarc&nmt=Detailing%20to%20the%20extreme%20!!!!

I'm 99% sure he lives right arund the corner from me too..

Yup & his blue one before. According to his profile he lives in Kent so could be.

What a knob! This car cost many times the value of mine. Its still c**p.

if i had 1% of this guys enthusiasm and patience not to mention time, my car would be 100% cleaner but i couldn't be bothered to take and upload that many photos nevermind spending all that time in the garage.

i think his attention to detail is exceptional but he's wasted it on an astra

remember... you can't polish a turd

I say fair play to the bloke... Yes it is definately obsessive behaviour but I would love to have him "detail" my tired old 928!

Maybe hes in the wrong line of work & should be a detailer. He could clean my car. Might not fancy the bill though

do you think he's ever missed a bit ?

It was worse than reading War & Peace at school. How many pictures and how long to upload.

He must be divorced, single or otherwise focused get a life, I have always enjoyed cleaning and sort of detailing my cars but I could not be that bothered, I suppose the reason his old VXR held its value was due to the fact it had no miles on the clock after 12 months being detailed.

I assume he drives everywhere at 20MPH so no flies get squished on the front

God forbid the car in front flicking a stone towards it

he must have had a mare this summer, unable to take car out of the garage 'cos of all the rainy days