Attention Black Car Owners

Okay so this is kind of a weird post so just bear with me.

After Doug hit his deer a few months ago the hood of his car never quite shut the same. A few weeks later (sorry if I've alreay blogged about this) it flew up while he was driving on the freeway. We now have a beautiful dent in the top of the car from where the hood hit it. Anyway, we ended up getting a new hood from a junk yard for a pretty good deal but it only had the primer coat on it and wasn't a shiny black. It wasn't too bad and we really weren't to picky. With the matte hood and years of not living somewhere with covered parking the paint job on his poor car has suffered. The paint was completely starting to peel off both bumpers and his car had become quite the site.

He mentioned something about how you can get black wax so I looked into it and got him some for Father's Day. We cleaned and waxed his car for FHE (so fun. I know). Anyway, it's amazing how well it really worked. This is what I ended up getting.

This isn't a very good before picture (and this was before we replaced the hood) but you can kind of see how the paint was peeling on the front bumper.

After we got done his car looked like this. Pretty fancy if you ask me. HE practically has a new car now! (not really - the kids have done a number to the inside).

Funny side story about this fabulous car. A few months after we moved here we had someone come and knock on our door asking if our car was for sale. At the time it was our only mode of transportation and I told her it wasn't. A few weeks ago I was cleaning out the car and the same woman was walking by and asked if still had no interest in selling the car. So weird. If she only knew how much of a spectacular car it was maybe she wouldn't ask anymore. It's a '98 and although the odometer only shows 198,000 miles it broke a few years ago (the only thing that works on the dash is the gas gauge - which is why we got a GPS so he knows how fast he's going and why he overheated in the middle of winter (since the temperature gauge doesn't work)). We're also pretty sure that it has well over 250,000 by now. Got to love Hondas! I did ask her what she was willing to pay for it and she couldn't give me an answer so maybe she'll quit asking. Kind of weird.

Anyway, I highly recommend this stuff if you're looking to improve the look of your black car. We'll see how long the new look lasts though.