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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:14 PM
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Who has a silver thirdgen?

I know there's Flynlow89's GTA that is Chyslere Platnum silver and there is a sport coupe that is silver too, but does anyone else have one? I want to have my car painted silver and I wanted to see all the different shades it came in.


What is the brightest silver I can get without looking like white?
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:19 PM
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Hey...I got an 87 Pontiac Firebird its silver...But I have no pics..Its a nice silver but not as nice as that ones guys..Its been recently painted.I do like it..great color!!

I'm going to get some pics asoon as it warms up a bit...to cold to wash car..na mean?

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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:20 PM
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This is iroc_cragg's 85 IROC.. I like the red on silver
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:30 PM
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Here is my silver...just silver metallic
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:31 PM
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one from the rear...
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 07:47 PM
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that car is awsoem

i love the lookes of the gost flames and teh tips and those tires look liek they have liek 5 miles on them.
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 09:32 PM
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this is my 1984 Trans Am:
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 09:33 PM
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and in the 1/4:
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 09:41 PM
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Mark Frouhar has a gorgeous paintjob on his 434 Firebird. He used a VW silver, IIRC.

http://www.geocities.com/Legoland0/
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 10:07 PM
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Oooh, that VW Silver is nice
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 10:41 PM
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That silver makes the car look like a new car. Very sweet. I was still trying out different colors, but now I am dead set on silver, like in that TA pictured above.

Having my car painted is no big deal, I have the money and time for it, the only thing holding me back is all the body work I need done - that's the difficult part. I can't wait to get it done so I can have my car shot with silver.
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 07:42 AM
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there is one drawback to having cars that nice though....

it makes it feel even worse when you bump something with em.





http://www.geocities.com/Legoland0/crash2.htm
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 01:05 PM
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Originally posted by theSteve
[B]there is one drawback to having cars that nice though....

it makes it feel even worse when you bump something with em.

Oh no, What happened. I thought the damaged body was bad enough, but exactly happened in that engine bay. Did it explode or something? That's very sad.


Bad things always happens to nice cars.
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 01:26 PM
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That was at the f-body.org Memphis event last year. Mark's crank self destructed 2/3's of the way down the front stretch on the road course. Crank balancer went bouncing under the car, breaking things, and the !oilpan pretty much greased up his rear tires at 130 mph. Mark did a great job slowing it down to where the car finally tagged the jersey barriers. It's since been fixed, looks great, and the engine was replaced with a Musi 434 I fwd'd this thread to Mark. Hopefully he'll chime in on Monday. He did some of the body repairs himself and did a good job.

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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 05:59 PM
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I dont know how late I am for this post. But I'm going to show my car anyway.
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 06:06 PM
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85 IROC.

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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 07:35 PM
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I'm actually thinking about painting my car silver. I've only seen one other firebird the same year as mine in silver and I liked it. I'm either gonna go with Pearl White, arctic white, or silver.
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 07:45 PM
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Originally posted by JamesC
85 IROC.

JamesC
mmm prettttty.

nice car!
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 08:12 PM
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I found this on GMHTP's site (I think) It's a sivler from Lexus
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 08:14 PM
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OK maybe it was Chevy High Performance (just seen the lisence plate)
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 10:34 PM
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Heh, yeah, Chevy High Performace, I have the issue with that car in it.
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 11:37 PM
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Thanks for all the pics. I like all those shades of silver, but I think I am going to go with the brightest shade. There is something about silver that makes a car look newer.
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