RS Reaper

Ok I was looking at the rules for some shows and one thing that kept coming up was that if a car "looks like a SS and had SS emblem that I would be signed up as a SS". Do you guys think this is fine that anyone could throw SS emblems on there car and the people would declare it a SS.? While I am pretty sure GM didn't make a SS third gens I keep seeing people put there cars as SS third gens on youtube and cardomain. So do you think this is not a big deal?

cameron7710

i think that as long as it looks and proforms like an ss than its ok to do but if u take a stock camaro and put ss badges on thit its just wong

campin1983

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I think that if you take a car and make it perform and look like a different version, then you may be ok labeling it as that. The problem here I think, lies in the fact that there was no SS third gen to speak of, thus the person is making up their own model. It can't perform or look like a car that does not exist.

I guess I'd say its ok as long as the car is a clone of the real thing, but aside from that, just leave it be. or if your ashamed of your RS badges, just shave them off and leave people guessing. My own car will look like a Formula soon, but I don't plan on putting any new badges on it.

RS Reaper

Dude I'm proud of my RS emblems I'm getting stainless steel ones to go on mine this week but I do think SS emblems would be sweet on a thirdgen but my view also is you can't really hide your car in with cars that don't exist. So how can you enter a version that never existed. dam GM..why? lol

cameron7710

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or if your ashamed of your RS badges, just shave them off and leave people guessing.quote]
i dont see why people would be ashaed of the rs badges i mean if ur car is an rs its an rs theres no changing what it is i for one like them cause once i get my car as fast as i want it to be it will shock people can enyone say sleeper

campin1983

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Didn't mean to dis the RS versions! I just assumed that if you want to go from RS to SS badges you didn't like having it labeled and RS.

My point is that a car should be labeled for what it is, or not labeled at all. I see the SS emblems abused all the time, stuck on everything from Chevy Aveo's to 1500 series truck with nothing more than straight pipe exhaust to differ them from a standard 1500. I've even seen SS badges on Honda Civics.

In reality, I think alot of vehicles that came out of the factory with SS emblems don't even deserve them, as Chevy seems happy to stick the badge on any car, truck or SUV with any sort of performance upgrade these days. Lets leave those SS badges for the few cars that really deserve them.

cameron7710

so meany cars dont deserve to be called ss and as far as people puting it on hondas and things people r just stupid just like iv seen a civic with ferarri emblems people r stupid

RS Reaper

i said RS to SS cause that what most of the guys on the web change there car from. i have to say i have never seen a honda with a SS but i guess there is a 1st time for everything. yea i didn't get a SS stuck on my car guess it was a off day or years are somthing.

GTAwheelman

i'm sort of in the same boat with my S.C. i wanted to add the 85 Z28 GFX, but then i knew i would be a poser. So i thought about adding the later S.C. GFX with the Camaro emblems instead of RS or z28.

i have no problem with putting SS badges on a car as long as you try to make the car like GM would have made the SS version. try to keep things stock appearing, but yet different than what was offered. you know what i'm trying to say?

if i ever have the money i want to make a yenko 3rd gen camaro. not sure if i'll have the cash to though.

okfoz

IIRC the most of the SS's in the 60's started life as a Base looking car, they did not get the RS appearance package, unless they were an RS/SS. For some reason I want to think that the Z28 was above the SS in the early years, in the later years it was the SS with the SLP package, I say do what you want its your car.

John

ryan91rs

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putting an SS on a third gen is wrong. The SS badge is just way over used anyway. Keep the RS and surprise them with the SS performance. Or you might end up being laughed out of a car show. For me it's the first step in making a F body like an import with a fart muffler.

campin1983

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I didn't want to word myself that strongly, but I have to agree. Cars on the road are often much more bark than bite. I'd rather err on the side of sleeper and surprise people, than be like the guy who thinks each sticker he slaps on his car is worth 5 hp.

RS Reaper

Wait! Wait! Wait! How is putting the American Super Sport on an American car make it more importish? .There is no way you can say that a '67 camaro with the SS 350 emblem on the front grill taking off down the road doesn't scream American. While I am with you on not putting it on a car that not a SS I see it as a impostor not a import and yea people well know that it fake. There was a guy that did this and on his cardomain was full of comment about it.

campin1983

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I think we stereotype people like that as "import tunerz," but its just the attitude that alot of people have that we're talking about. You can slap badges, stickers or any sort of junk you want on any cars. Around here you see college kids with 4th gen Camaro's with a wimpy V6 in it, front bumper cracked and the thing is all scratched up. But it will still have racing stripes, SS badges, fart cans, etc. The idea is not to have people think of you in that category.

RS Reaper

Well I'm about to get my car painted black with flat black rally stripes and it's got a V6. I bet that pisses you off. I'll think of you at the gas pump.

campin1983

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LOL

Again, my examples don't fit everyone, I think you know the people I'm talking about, whose cars are so over the top that its not even funny. If you stick 22"s on it, and a couple of fart cans though, I'll be jamming grapefruits up your exhaust.

All in good fun, all in good fun... lol

RS Reaper

I know whom your talk about; I'm just giving you a hard time. Believe me I hate the tuner exhaust as much as anyone one else that why I love my deep exhaust, more pleasant on the ears lol.
I think a better example is the people that pay 1,000's of dollars on rims and the car paint is peeling off and the front bumper is held on by tape and the car has to be started a few times to get it running.

campin1983

iTrader: (4)

Hmm, so like the 86 Mercury Grand Marquis I bought that had huge bling rims, a ripped vinyl top and was leaking fuel?

The car's punishment for such a display was being run in a demo derby

Slouch

My $0.2, Its OK to do if your doing a clone. Unfortunately as stated above there are no SS third gens. This is border line poser-ish but I think you would be OK IF you were to take an SS and move as many parts over as possible. This would be a major project, interior (Would have to be modified to fit a third gen, or even custom made to mimic the original while fitting in the third gen) paint scheme with the stripes and original paint color, engine and transmission from the SS, Wheels from the SS and the list goes on.
I don't agree with trying to clone a newer SS because I think they look like ****, unless of course you are talking about the brand new not released yet camaro which would be cool for just too many reasons to list.