What\'s the best way to wash a GT40?
After I had finished work on my '40 after returning from the Le Mans Classic, I decided it needed a wash because it was covered in dust, dead insects and travel stains.
How best to go about it without drenching the electrics (the 6AL seems particularly susceptible to water), wetting the carpets and generally making a fine mess?
If you hose it down and cover everything with soapy water, then hose off as you would the Daily Drive, water gets everywhere - inside the cockpit, all over the carpets, into the plenum chamber under the rear clip, down the nostrils and into the box that the steering rack lives in - which is particularly difficult to get dry. I learnt all this the last time I started sloshing water about!
So, how did the beauty queens so often photographed on these pages get as beautiful as they are? My car has to work for its living - I have done 2000 miles since 1 May going to meetings and Le Mans, and I don't want major histrionics every time I want to clean the bodywork, wheels, horizontal areas around the fuel pumps and filters - and the aircon and ignition on the other side. How do you get the nose clean without water getting into the front nostril compartment?
Patent methods, please, then I'll tell one or two of the tricks that I have discovered!
After I had finished work on my '40 after returning from the Le Mans Classic, I decided it needed a wash because it was covered in dust, dead insects and travel stains.
How best to go about it without drenching the electrics (the 6AL seems particularly susceptible to water), wetting the carpets and generally making a fine mess?
If you hose it down and cover everything with soapy water, then hose off as you would the Daily Drive, water gets everywhere - inside the cockpit, all over the carpets, into the plenum chamber under the rear clip, down the nostrils and into the box that the steering rack lives in - which is particularly difficult to get dry. I learnt all this the last time I started sloshing water about!
So, how did the beauty queens so often photographed on these pages get as beautiful as they are? My car has to work for its living - I have done 2000 miles since 1 May going to meetings and Le Mans, and I don't want major histrionics every time I want to clean the bodywork, wheels, horizontal areas around the fuel pumps and filters - and the aircon and ignition on the other side. How do you get the nose clean without water getting into the front nostril compartment?
Patent methods, please, then I'll tell one or two of the tricks that I have discovered!