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To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Car cleaning idea
From: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:15:52 -0400
My Spifire is a bit faded.  The paint is far from optimal.  While trying to 
clean/restore/improve
the paint I kept getting it worse and worse.  Old dry paint sucks up 
everything.  Giving it that
oh so pretty streaky gunky look.  The more things I pulled out of my car care 
arsonal, the
worse it was looking.  

Then I had an idea (hey, it happens sometimes).  Murphy's Oil Soap.  The stuff 
works great on
wood floors.  It claims to have oils and such in it...  Put two and two 
together, get fifteen, and
go was the car.  Hey! This got all the stuff out of the paint!  The areas I did 
wash are looking
good.  The soaked in waxes and such are all gone.  The oils in the soap really 
do seem to have
soaked into the paint, and done a nice job of revitalizing them.  It's been a 
couple of days now,
and I don't see any problems so far.  As I've pondered on this, it seems like a 
pretty reasonable
result, and probably a good notion to use Murphys Oil Soap to was faded old 
cars with.


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