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Not gonna win any car shows with my car looking like this, lol.

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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 06:21 PM
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Not gonna win any car shows with my car looking like this, lol.

This is most likely how my car is going to look. I still plan on doing the TA front. I used 88WS6TAs for this photoshop.
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 07:17 PM
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DOOD!!! You dropped it! Sweet, anyway I could talk you into sending me a copy of the pic with just the drop?
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 08:11 PM
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DOOD!!! You dropped it! Sweet, anyway I could talk you into sending me a copy of the pic with just the drop?


I'll send you a copy of it later, since I would have to drop your car in the picture again because the one I did, I took the groundeffects off.
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 08:31 PM
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what's wrong with it?

i love that color as well, they have a new prismatic paint that is so metallic it looks chrome just like that. that would be a beautiful color.
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 09:31 PM
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Looks really good.
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 11:07 PM
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i think his title was sarcastic......by the way...i like it
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 12:06 AM
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Title wasn't really that sarcastic. I was thinking that the TA front may have been a little to low and flared out on the sides. I am wondering if I can do something to the side groundeffects, to give me that lower front end look, but make it kind of blend in better.

Basically, I am wondering if I can take the flare out of the sides, then it would be perfect.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 07:54 AM
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it looks good in the picture.

In person, that's another issue. There was a guy around here with a base firebird, but with a TA front bumper and hood. It looked retarded.

If you're going to do it... put all of the TA ground effects/bumpers on.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 08:05 AM
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I would go with the ground f/x all the way around. The color and stance looks nice, but I think the shadow under the door fools the eye. Make you not notice the side ground f/x missing. Just my .02 cents.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 08:22 AM
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i think the car looks fine, the color is cool and being dropped like that makes it that much better. i think the car looks fine.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 09:08 AM
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looks good to me.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 09:45 AM
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Yea I say get some side gfxs then you'll be set.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 08:38 PM
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Yea I say get some side gfxs then you'll be set.

You know what, I am going to put the rear ground effects on too. I know 91-92 Camaro side skirts would look good.


I love the look of my car with no ground effects from the rear, but at any other angle I think my car just looks plain, especially since I don't have the aero wing, T-tops, or a different hood. Gfx will make my thirdgen look a little less generic.

The kicker is, although I will be getting TA gfx now, I don't want it too look exactly like a TA. I wonder how the pre 91 Iroc Gfx would look with the TA gfx?
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