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Re: Re: Car cleaning idea

To: "DT Gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Car cleaning idea
From: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine)
Date: Wed, Aug 9 2000 11:40:18 GMT-0600
> It seems to me that at one point in my life I've read on a bottle of
>Murphy's that it was OK to use it to wash(warsh here in the midwest) the car
>with it. My friend at the body shop laughed his head off when I mentioned it
>to him ( but what does he know!!) It all natural so it shouldn't hurt
>anything. I think I'll try it!!!
>        Dave

I think that if I washed Nigel with Murphy's, Dave would reposess!

Laura G.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nolan Penney <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
>To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:15 PM
>Subject: Car cleaning idea
>
>
>>
>> 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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