BADNBLK

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So the nominations have been racking up for first two weeks of the month, so its time to VOTE in our March Car Of The Month winner!!!!

This month there was only 5 cars that received more than one nomination to be moved into the poll.


IROCthe5.7L


Sean O'Hara




Fandreous



JekyllandHyde



Scottmoyer

BlueZee28

iTrader: (30)

Can we get IROCthe5.7L's picture changed to this?

reefland

What can I say, I like the Z28's.

19transam86

all sweet cars

cal30_sniper

iTrader: (16)

Is it just me or are almost all of these cars lowered? I know Irocthe5.7's is, and I'm pretty certain that I've seen pictures of Scottmoyer's car in the lowering forum as well. Looks alone say that JekyllandHyde's car has been lowered, and though I can't really tell from the pic, Fandreous's car appears to have been lowered as well.

Looks to me that Sean O'Hara has the only non-lowered car in the voting (with the possible exception of Fandreous). What's the deal? I agree, they are all amazing looking cars, but what happened to the rules?

-cal30sniper

BADNBLK

iTrader: (11)

Its really hard to gauge and measure from car to car whether it has been lowered or not, especially from pictures from different angles. I said we didn't wanna get super nit picky about this "stock appearing" theme for this month, because there is no really good way to police the system. From the pics provided none of the cars are obviously lowered enough for me to feel the need to disqualify a person.

backgammon7

Sometimes its hard to tell, especially when these are the cars that we base our idea of what the cars looked like stock. When I nominated the car I did, I remember thinking "He has a really clean car, and he rants about originality", I found out later that he had lowered his car a little. I also remember reading that on some higher mileage cars that the springs had sagged to the point that when the owner put on lowering springs, that it actually raised the car,



Ahh you beat me to it lol

Sean O'Hara

battle of the Trans Ams?

camarosrock1989

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I think all the cars are awesome! Very clean, good luck to all!

Sean O'Hara

hey guys, heres a link to my buddys photostream on flickr, just click on the picture.

lots of other photos in there, plus he has many pics of exotic cars, pretty cool stuff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylankingphotography/5551378128/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylankingphotography/5551378128/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/dylankingphotography/, on Flickr

voteforsean023

yea buuddday up by 3

cal30_sniper

iTrader: (16)

Proposed new COTM rule... Must be a member for more than a month to vote?

On the lowering thing, not trying to be a nitpicker, I just noticed because a couple of the cars are in multiple lowering threads, and it was italicized in the voting rules that they not be lowered. That being said, you're the COTM guy, so you've got the final say!

Thanks for putting together such a great thing for the community!

-cal30sniper

DD9TransAmGTA

iTrader: (1)

I agree on the member part, signing up just to get more votes....come on

Sean O'Hara

ya I have nothing to do with that, I only asked people I know are already members

Slash

Asking for votes doesn't seem to be in the fairness of a contest where winner is chosen through votes from people of the site who think which is the better looking car. That's the same thing as stacking a deck of cards, if you ask friends to vote for you, its not an actual vote, and you stack it in you're favor

IROCThe5.7L

Hey I just noticed my car is in this thread. . Thanks Bluezee for putting pics of my car up. And thanks for the votes guys.

Sean O'Hara

You're right, however I only linked the vote thread to the local fbody forum in

Vancouver and never blatantly told them to vote for me. people could have

easily voted for another guy and I would have been fine with it.

BADNBLK

iTrader: (11)

I agree completly, but will have to message JT about what we can do with locking down the systems polls. As of now any member (obviously) can vote and once the vote is place there is nothing I can do about it.

I italicized it to keep people from nominating OBVIOUSLY lowered, slammed type cars that have chose to keep the rest of the exterior of the vehicle factory appearing. In the manor we have to set the COTM up to keep it member nominated & voted there will be some grey area on things like this, hopefully we can work through the grey areas and see the greater good, and have some fun while we fine tune the system here.

Glad that you didn't

I can't see that this is a problem that can be controlled if the voting system is still left in the hand of members. We can help... if we can only allow established member to participate in the voting. I would like to say that we do not condone creating of threads asking for votes of the your vehicle.

mucker15

all nice rides

JekyllandHyde

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For the record, my car is not lowered. It's still riding on the factory springs, so I'm pretty sure I'll be one of those guys that would put a lowering spring kit on and have the car sit higher. LOL

Anyway, I am a huge fan of Sean O'Hara's ride. He has done an amazing job of keeping it clean and classy. Makes me want to own a red one someday.

SKELITOR117

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JAckle, I love your ride, but dang that Iroc5.7 is Sweeeet.

Sean O'Hara

Thanks a lot man, frankly Im suprised I'm ahead of you. Gorgeous Car

TPI-Formula350-

Nice cars

wdigitog

Battle of the GTA's! Both worthy!

1320B4U

I dig the gun metal gta.

cal30_sniper

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Haha, wow, that's quite a rake for factory springs, especially with the weight savings you've done on the nose of that thing. I stand corrected!

How many miles are on it? Is it really raked that hard, or is that mainly a factor of the photo angle? It's a great looking stance.

-cal30sniper

JekyllandHyde

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It has 62k miles. I have other pics in the members section. I think it's the angle of the pic. It could also be because of the new Koni shocks I put in the back. I didn't have the new ones put in the front yet.

Sean O'Hara

Woah, crazy. My GTA has 96000 km.
About the same in miles as yours

cal30_sniper

iTrader: (16)

Yeah, I noticed that the Koni shocks kicked the rear end up quite a bit on my GTA when I ditched the factory ones (of course, I compressed the factory shocks by hand when I pulled them out two days ago just to see how soft they were, and they still haven't come back out, haha.) When I put the Konis on the back of my Formula, they raised the rear end up a bit higher even than the KYBs that were in there.

JekyllandHyde

iTrader: (3)

HAHA, isn't that a coincidence. Still I would've figured your car was one of the low milers.

cal30_sniper, which ones do you have? The reds or the Yellows? I was able to get a set of Reds for the rear, but I had to get Yellows for the front because the Reds are discontinued.

cal30_sniper

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I've got yellows all the way around with Hotchkis springs. I love them.

-cal30sniper

manolis1969

Luv dat gunmetal ride..gives me a semi

backgammon7

I feel like the lower two camaro's were let down by their pictures. It's not really relevant because the voting has gone on for days now, but a couple of clearer pics and they would have a better chance.

Biz

sean's car is sparkly :P

camarosrock1989

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Looks like you guys are running neck & neck!

BADNBLK

iTrader: (11)

I don't think it would have changed the outcome in this case, but yes the pictures probably don't do the cars the justice they deserve.

I can't search the entire site for the "best" pics of a car someone else nominated... I repost with the pics that were used for nomination.

So... make sure when you nominate a members car that you use a GOOD picture.

InfernalVortex

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Every single one of those cars deserves its own month.

Fandreous has a beautiful car, but it needs centercaps.

But with every car being pretty much thirdgen perfection, its only predictable that the winner will be the one with the neatest looking color and/or the best photography. I voted for Jekyll and Hyde because his had both. A silver 92 Bird... there must be all of 3 of them in existence, and none photographed so well.

But I hate to pick any car of those 5 being "better" than the other.

JekyllandHyde

iTrader: (3)

Thanks!

I wanted to give the credit for the photo to my friend who is a professional photographer - Stan Wan aka wdigitog on the boards here.

sailtexas186548

iTrader: (2)

the pictuer of scotts car is REALLY bad, I'm sure thats why his votes are so low becasue that car is dam near perfect it seems

UnderCover89TBI

iTrader: (25)

And nor cal got flak for making a thread last month haha. One of these guys was campaigning on facebook for votes which I dont mind! I think its all good either way! I mean its not like thier is a cash prize for winning. All the car's are badass soooo yeah..haha.

backgammon7

You're right, and I know you can't, I was just trying to bring attention to the fact that picture quality is important.

Maybe after nomination, PM the members and get what they think is their best picture, give them a time limit to do submit it to you like 48 hours or some other relatively short time and use those. I dunno, just throwing around ideas.

BADNBLK

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http://gtasourcepage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53841

Sean this is not quite the local page you make it out to be...

Guys I can't control the internet and where you post, and what you guys say, so it kinda comes down to some personal integrity on the part of what you do givin the chance to be nominated into COTM. I would like to say as part of TGO that we don't condone "advertising" that you have be put into a voting situation on another site. That being said there are some new rules that will be made here to help keep this system we have here nominated and voted by our members. JT and I working on this now.

Keep voting everyone!!!! What a race to the finish we will have this month!!!

Sean O'Hara

I see what you're saying, but Im just trying to get out awareness, people on GTASourcepage are just as likely to vote for JekyllandHyde, if not more so.

I wont post any more things up there though

BADNBLK

iTrader: (11)

Wow this is really close this month!

Make sure you get your votes in!!!

GreekItalianMan

I've personally seen jeklynandhydes car at a few car meets, his car isn't lowered at all. Very nice display of third gens. All looking better than mint condition. All deserve to win

90_383

personally im a camaro guy but just cant get over the louvers And lack of enter caps otherwise the blue Z28 would have got my vote , but sean has the best pic

88blackiroc

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Has anyone noticed irocthe5.7 that the blue stripping on the front bumper is more like a teal blue than dark blue like the rest of it? Just kinda weird, might only be the sun hitting or something also. Gordous car reguardless and he has my vote

BlackFormula

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sorry took me so long! i've been busy working on my car lol
Lots of nice cars here!!

UnderCover89TBI

iTrader: (25)

I think it is just the sun shining on it.

SKELITOR117

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BADNBLK, I don't know why it took me so long, but I just noticed your new title. Very official. Great job getting this whole thing organized. You've handled this whole thing very well.