Confuzed1

After quite a few years in red oxide primer, I've decided to finally get her painted. It's going into a body shop the first week of November (next month). They'll be keeping it at the shop most of the winter, which is good...since I need the room in my garage for the boat, my S-10, Challenger and the wife's Pontiac Vibe. The Cavalier's braving the outside..... Anyhow, I'm seriously thinking of kinda copying a couple other Camaro paint schemes I've seen in the past...I think they rock!! If you've been on the board for awhile, you may have seen Sinister Z's car. It's a canary yellow with black hockey stripes. I'm not a big fan of yellow, and I won't be lowering my car, but I love that scheme. So here's the colors I'm deciding on... Painting the car Dupount Pepper Metallic gray with black hockey stripes (one down each side) with bright silver ground FX. I also want to retain the blacked out area around the headlights, front lower grill -and put a stripe down each side of the cowl. I even plan to get the original "5.0 Litre HO" decals reinstalled in the factory locations. Some time after that, I plan to get some nice 15" drag wheels (around 4-6" in front and 8-9" in back) and trying to stuff as wide a tire as I can in the rear without rubbing the quarters. Kinda undecided on wheels too, maybe Outlaws... I've personally seen the work this guy can do...he's good and well known around here. He can do flames, stripes, ghost flames - anything custom. He garantees his work as long as I own the car. So whattya think?? I'm open to any other ideas too, but I gotta decide real soon... EDIT: I've also thought about just painting the whole thing '99 Chrysler Sebring Silver Metallic - but the ground FX would most likely have to be the same color...

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GSMC, USN-RET. 1998 - '83 Camaro Z28HO -400 SBC (+.040), Edelbrock E-Force MP122 Supercharger, Pro Systems 750 carb, Dart 200cc Iron Eagles, Scat forged crank, Comp NX276HR cam, SRP forged pistons, G Force T-5 w/Pro-5.0 shifter, Moser 9" w/Detroit True-trac posi, UMI TQ arm, Lakewood LCA's, Edelbrock TES headers, Hooker SuperComp Catback, Griffin aluminum rad,
Also: '04 Vibe 1.8 Ecotec, 2000 S10 4.3L 4WD, 1990 Cav. Z24 3.1L., 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi

hedberg667

I think its a great idea. Once the car gets painted and the decals go on im sure you will be able to choose a wheel. Personally i would go the blacked out route and stay away from chrome, but thats just my

Confuzed1

Thanks for the reply, but I guess I like the chromies too much. Personally, I think the blacked out wheels are a fad that's gonna go away soon.

-On another note, I just turned the car into the body shop yesterday, so it's gone for the winter. It's gonna get painted Dark Pepper Mettallic Gray (same as Eleanor) and will have mettallic black hockey stripes down each side and on each side of the cowl on the hood. Ground FX will be Chrysler Sebring Silver. He's doing all door jambs, under the hood etc.
Can't wait!!

The guy does good work. He'll also re-align the hood, fenders, doors and get the T-Top weatherstrip sealed down. He even mentioned doing as much of the engine compartment as he can - at least the shock towers. Hopefully he won't run into any issues. I know firsthand since I sanded it down to bare metal myself that it's bondo-free.

I also have a set of the older aluminum Crager rear window louvers I'll prep and paint myself while the rest of the car is in the shop.

-I'll post pics when the big day arrives!!