Pictures & Videos - February 2026 2-Day Car Detailing Class - No Chairs - Zero Sitting - Mike Phillips

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Pictures & Videos - February 2026 2-Day Car Detailing Class - No Chairs - Zero Sitting - Mike Phillips

Over the course of 3 days, (Friday is a bonus/free glass polishing class), the great people that took this class detailed a total of 7 cars covering more topics, tools and techniques than any other class on planet Earth - DOCUMENTED.


Here's the graduating class for our February, 2026 2-Day Car Detailing Class


First up, a husband/wife team, Josh and Julia, joined us from South Carolina!

Josh - South Carolina!

Julia - South Carolina!

Taggert - Washington, D.C.!

Brittany - Arizona!

Clarence - Louisiana!

Will - Bahamas!

Tony - Bahamas!

Rich - Wisconsin!

Marcus - Florida!

Nic - Bellingham, Washington!

Cameron - Georgia!

Katherine - Florida!

John - Florida!

John - Illinois!

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Here's the AFTER shots for all the cars

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FIRST - the Before and After Video

SECOND - the Process to Save a BARN FIND!
This 1965 Plymouth Valiant was discovered in a Pole Barn in Macon, Georgia. It was purchased by my long-time friend Darrel, who has brought me 2 other Barn Find Cars in the past. Darrel had this car picked up and shipped directly to Dr. Beasley's in Stuart, Florida and we appreciate his trust.

Here she is in the Pole Barn where the car was discovered.

Here she is after she arrived to Dr. Beasley's Training Center in sunny, Stuart, Florida!

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The Comet Wash Technique
This is an old-school technique for removing years of oxidation, dirt and traffic film during the wash process. NOTE: This is NOT for modern cars with clearcoat paint jobs. This is ONLY for older cars, with extremely oxidized single stage paint.


The BIG PICTURE IDEA?
The big picture idea behind washing an older, extremely oxidized car with Comet is that you will remove years, even DECADES of dirt and oxidation during the wash process, which you need to do anyways before detailing a dirty car. Besides getting the paint, glass and chrome spotlessly clean, when you do move forward with the first paint correction step, you won't simply load-up your buffing pads with years of oxidized, dead paint. Washing using the old-school Comet Technique makes quick work of getting ALL of the car clean and gets the car's paint to a fresh base layer of paint, ready for paint correction.

This is easily, the 5th time I've taught and DOCUMENTED the Comet Wash Technique in a formal class, (paid class). While I'm sure other seasoned detailers like myself have used this technique, to date, I am the only person that has documented teaching this process in a real class.

The Power in the AFTER pictures is created in the BEFORE pictures
Here's the car staged in our training center for all the students to get their BEFORE pictures. Always remember, once you wash a Barn Find, there's no going back in time to get the before pictures and the before pictures are the MOST important pictures.

7:30am and it's Go Time!
No chairs, zero sitting - from start to finish our classes are hands-on and you're training on multiple, multiple cars. No demo hoods and no test panels.

Look how dirty the bright yellow fibers of the wash mitt have become!

After a very thorough wash job, Josh gives our Barn Find a thorough rinse.

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Action Shots - Machine Scrubbing Tires
Back in 2013, I posted what I believe to be the first video showing how to machine scrub tires. Back then, the FLEX cordless rotary polisher had not been yet invented, so I used a Porter Cable 7424XP with a Cyclo Aqua Carpet Cleaning Brush. Here's the link - Machine Scrubbing Monster Tires , Upload date: October 25th, 20213 - everything has a start point.

Teaching Technique
This car has old, worn-out tires, thus I did not teach the class how to get old tires clean, I taught the technique of machine scrubbing tires. This means hands-on experience, which build confidence, and muscle memory. The goal being when the class returns to their world, they'll know how to do this type of machine tire scrubbing on good tires.

No Electrical Shock Hazard
You see everyone in this class using CORDLESS rotary polishers, this is by design. I've been shocked using corded tool to machine scrub tires, so once FLEX introduced their cordless rotary polisher at SEMA in 2017 - I immediately included these tools for machine scrubbing all types of things/surfaces to keep everyone safe.


Here's Josh machine scrubbing tires

See the tire cleaning foam turning white? That's also by design.

Here's Nic machine scrubbing tires

Rotary Polisher Extensions
This picture tells the whole story as to why I put extensions on rotary polishers. The extension moves the body of the polisher away from the tire and this enables you to PUSH the spinning brush bristles against the flat spot on the tire to get it as clean as all the other areas of the tire sidewall. Normally, we use 3" extensions, but one of my 3" extensions was missing, so Nic is using a 6" extension. Both sizes will do the same thing, but you have more control over the polisher with the shorter 3" extension.

See it?

And sometimes, depending upon the body styling, the extension enables you to reach behind the fender to get the high side of the sidewall.

NEW! Dr. Beasley's Foaming Tire Cleaner
This new product is something we started working on the summer of 2025 and it will be launching in the April/May time frame along with our new Tire Coating. Here's Marcus spraying the new Foaming Tire Cleaner onto the tire sidewall.

Machine scrubbing tires gets them cleaner with less physical work on your part. You can also use a cordless drill with a brush attachment.

Here's Clarence tackling the driver's side rear tire. Note his cordless rotary has the correct, 3" extension.

Action Shots - Wet Wash Engine Detail
This car arrived without an engine and transmission, so while there wasn't an engine to clean, the engine compartment was just as dirty as the outside of the car. We used this Barn Find 1965 Plymouth Valiant to teach how to correctly do a Wet Wash Engine Detailer to build experience and confidence.

Thank you Brittany, and everyone else for all the focused attention to details this early in the morning.

EGO Cordless Pressure Washer
After a thorough scrubbing, Julia rinses down the hood and engine compartment using the EGO Cordless Pressure Washer.

Here's my full video review for the EGO Pressure Washer

And here's the matching blog article with tons of detailed information and lots of pictures.

EGO Power+ 3200 PSI Pressure Washer | Complete Review & Guide

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AFTER Results - The Comet Wash Technique

Check out the dramatic transformation to the paint, glass and chrome, and we haven't started buffing yet!

IMPORTANT - Using Comet (or any product like Comet) is ONLY for old cars with old chalky, oxidized SINGLE STAGE PAINT.

Never use the Comet Technique on any car with a modern basecoat/clearcoat paint job.


Next up,

Learning the way of the rotary polisher...



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