I remembered coming across this in a tub of ski-gear a couple years ago and bein' all WTF. I just about tossed it, but something told me to hang onto it. I was wondering what I ever did with it, so, last place I saw it, ski-tub. Yep, pulled down the tub and it was still in there at the bottom where it been waiting smashed for years.
It wasn't in great shape whenever it made it's way into the tub and all the years of smashing didn't do it any favors. It looked like trash, but I figured a little elbow grease was worth a shot. Took a heat gun to it and got the sides straight...ish. Pulled off most of the old decals and adhesive residue. After washing it I decided to clay-bar, polish, wax it. It felt a little crazy and overkill for a toy car body I painted over 20 years ago when I was 12, but it's small, I'll be done before anyone can witness my lunacy.
Came out better than expected. I was using it more for an experiment on "detailing" lexan as I've never tried it before. It's legit runner status to me now. The neon yellow on the nose was painted on the outside after the fact when I was a kid. I was racing indoors on carpet for the first time at a track inside a warehouse which was lit like a warehouse, so, from the driver's stand I could see my 10LS just well enough to run it into the pylons on almost every corner. Hastily sprayed the yellow on between sessions to help better locate the front end on the track. I got over-spray on most of the front that remained there until I clayed the thing a couple nights ago.
