Did a quickie clay bar for this pic....



Gotta do it again when I get back. I'm in Monroe Wisconsin today and tomorrow.

 

Nice and shiny guys.

 

Lookin good there Mongo!

 

Hard to tell by the location, but pretty sure that's my dad's plant. He was there 33 years right up until they transfered him and tore it down. Haven't been by there in a long time.

 

I am hoping to get some time and clay my car.. But I also want to wet sand my baby.. Make it look really shiny

 

[QUOTE=09 Silver Bullett;455759]Thanks! Yeah, people are surprised when I tell them that I bought the car used, and that it's an '06. Most people think it's new!

And that looks good Mongo! Don't know why I decided to do it now. I guess I don't want to do it when it gets too warm out, and I had a few days off, and my Lumina is out, so I have another car to drive... Figure if the mood is right, I better do it while it lasts. Doesn't happen often. Waxing is the same way.


Yeah, that old GM site is in the middle to north end of Flint, along the river. Goes up to Stewart Ave. north, and down a little past Hamilton Ave, and from the river west to Industrial Ave. Used to be called "Buick City", and was a huge complex, included the hq for Buick. But, that's changed now...obviously. It's really sad. I remember watching them implode the smoke stacks on tv back in '01. I know they're looking to clean up the site and make a rail to truck shipping hub...but the site is pretty contaminated. It's been a GM plant since the beginning of the 20th century.

 

yeah that's the one he was at for 30 or so years. They had an employee day right before they shut it all down so I went up there with him and got to tour the plant and all that jazz. It was pretty cool. Now it's rubble.

 

It's a shame they couldn't turn that facility into something other than a pile of rubble. Sell it to a car company that is looking to build a new facility. Something other than tearing it down. That's life I guess.......

 

Well they had to let it join the others..... Flint is full of brownfields! There's another empty site in the middle of downtown, called "Chevy in the Hole". That's where the sit down strike took place, along with the birth of the UAW. The only one they actually rehabilitated was Fisher Body 1 on S. Saginaw and Atherton, and now it's mostly empty...but it was turned into offices, and Hurley Medical Center uses part as a fitness center or something. But, lucky for the area, they're planning to make the engine for the Cruze/Volt/Regal in Flint, so luckily it should keep the Flint Engine South open for a few more years...

 

Wet sanding ? Shiny ? huh ?