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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 06:03 PM
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My transformation

Old picture:




Then it got painted a year ago:




And then added some ZR1 wheels a month ago:




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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 06:31 PM
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LoL not to be mean, but one suggestion, give us some pictures to look at please
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 06:37 PM
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I can see the Pics and it looks really good I especially like the corvette wheels.
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 06:42 PM
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i see the pics, it looks awesome man! white wheels ROCK
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 06:47 PM
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It looks awesome!! I wonder if it would look better with blue gfx. Good Job!!
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:00 PM
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:06 PM
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Those wheels set it off. Great lookin car. Congratulations on a car well done.
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:14 PM
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awesome! looks sweet man
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:18 PM
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You've done a nice job man. Where did you get your wheels from?
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:19 PM
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Looks great with those wheels.You should have brought it to the gathering yesterday.
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:26 PM
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i see the pics, it looks awesome man! white wheels ROCK
Actually they are painted silver, the color of the picture isn't that great. Don't know if it's me or the camera

TransAm12sec - bought them from a guy in NY who owns a 98SS - you can visit his site at www.blackhawkss.com They cost me $600 shipped with new Kumho in front a 1/2 worn Nitto DRs in back.

Steve86TA - I planned on going, but something quite important came up


I have a couple more:


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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:39 PM
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How come I see no pictures?
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:49 PM
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Looks good....awesome color
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 07:51 PM
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Originally posted by BadBird84
How come I see no pictures?
Go here then:

http://members.aol.com/schitt17/camaro1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/schitt17/camaro4.jpg
http://members.aol.com/schitt17/zr1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/schitt17/zr1-2.jpg
http://members.aol.com/schitt17/zr1-3.jpg
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 09:28 PM
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Looks much better than before, I like the rims a lot.
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 09:34 PM
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Where were you on Sat? Nice pics too.
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Old Sep 22, 2002 | 10:53 PM
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Glad to see you ditched the moon discs for some new rims...

Good progress so far......
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 10:18 AM
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Where were you on Sat? Nice pics too.
I planned on going, and was really looking forward to it. But Friday night I had another issue to take care of... You know how GF's are... She made me an offer I couldn't refuse

I was in no shape Saturday morning to go to a car show.
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 10:20 AM
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Originally posted by Marc 85Z28
I planned on going, and was really looking forward to it. But Friday night I had another issue to take care of... You know how GF's are... She made me an offer I couldn't refuse

I was in no shape Saturday morning to go to a car show.
Dude, that is weak, unless another girl was involved.
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 10:24 AM
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The silver rims with the silver gfx looks SOLID. Nice job man. Love the blue color too.
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 10:31 AM
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nice clean car man. Keep up the good work.
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 11:05 AM
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:hail: I love the colors! looks like mine.. hehe
those wheels finish that car appearance wise, all i can say is ... BAD A$$!
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 11:17 AM
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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 11:48 AM
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That's a great looking car.
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 06:03 PM
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The paint on your car before it got painted still looks better than mine. I really like your decision to have the Camaro painted dark blue with silver groundeffects. I don't like the light blue over silver that much. The ZR1 wheels look good also, and since they are silver too, it almost looks as if they wer color matched to ground effects.
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 07:08 PM
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Thats pretty sweet.. I can't stand the ******* rims you had on their before.. awesome transformation.
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Old Oct 7, 2002 | 01:07 AM
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Sweet....maybe drop it an inch or so would be all I would suggest, but it looks great as is!
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Old Oct 7, 2002 | 01:24 AM
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ZR1 wheels Looks great.
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Old Oct 7, 2002 | 03:10 PM
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The ZR1 wheels look good also, and since they are silver too, it almost looks as if they wer color matched to ground effects.
That was the plan!

TTA115 - already did drop it 1" all the way around. It's low enough for me. I don't like the "lowered" look, I just wanted to fill the wheelwells a little better.

And thanks go out to all those who agree with the silver GFX. A lot of people give me flack about it - what do they know. It's good to see others around here have good taste After all, that's the ORIGINAL paint scheme. Just like SMURFN' Z28's car. I tried to get our bodyshop to match the original colors, but after they couldn't I decided on 2002 Corvette Electron Blue (only offered on 2002 Vette's) and 2002 GM Sebring Silver.
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