ok guys so im getting the car painted by the end of this month and here is what im doing. i have an 89 formula and im painting it back to the origional paint since you can see in my avitar that its not the same color. but what im going to do is put one of the 78ish birds on the hood. i measured it out and it will fill the hood perfectly i think it will look beautiful. im going to post some pictures. one is going to be the bird before the wreak and the second of the bird going on there. so tell me what you think. i think it will look wicked coming towards you with that big bird on the hood.

ok i got the first picture but the second one i already posted in a post so i cant get it on here. so go to this page ( https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...ecreation.html ) and it is in there right before the line of big third gen bandits.

 

Honestly, I would not do that. I think that getting the correct factory decal kit would be the best way to go. Personally, the Formula is my favorite of all the Firebirds, and they are sweet just the way they came from the factory (appearance wise anyway). I think that sticking a bird decal on that nice powerbulge hood would look really tacky, and further reinforce the trailer park, you-know-what-haircut, image that many people have of these cars.

 

I'm very partial to the bird on the hood (as you can tell by my avatar). I was totally stoked to replace my hood with one thats got a bird. I say put it on there as long as you can get it on well. I thought the pics looked great. Thats my two cents anyways.

 

I put a 2nd gen gold and yellow bird on my buddies 85 TA. It looks KILLER!!!

******? Trailer Park? ABSOLUTELY!!!! ...after all these are thirdgens!!!! Decal or not, no one is out pickin' up chicks in their thirdgen!!!!!!!!!!

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HA, they (we) bleeped out "that" word! LOL

 

Im not sure how its gonna work with the power bulge hood, maybe if it was a flat hood then yeah. Don't forget the birds forthe sail panel.

 

I think its definitely doable and would look killer. I'm going to consider getting some sort of bird decal on my cowl hood once I get it painted. Most likely vinyl just incase I don't like it. But what I've thought is getting sort of a smaller bird near the front of the hood, and having the wings come up and "wrap around" the sides of the cowl along with racing flags or something...

 

go for the bird man!!!! i have thought about finding someone to airbrush a bird on the hood. i need a new hood though first. but definitely go for it. the more you love your car the more custom you should make it. that way the less likely you are to sell it!!!!!!!!

hcr13 did you post pics of your idea?? i thought i had seen some before.

 

i actually have the flat hood on there now. i had to replace the hood after the acciedent and i had to replace it fast because of this is my daily driver and i could get pulled over for no hood im my area. so i got one from the local junkyard. so it would fit nicely. and i wont forget the sail panels. i plan on turboing my car so our car club had a lady that does custom decals im going to have her make the formula stickers for the side that look exactly like factory but im going to have her make them say "turbo formula" i think it will look great.

thank you guys for looking at this. ill be posting pictures for you with every step this month and when she is all done

 

no, I don't have any pics...not yet...after I get my hood painted, I'll start messing with photoshop...

 

Use a thirdgen bird instead of the second gen style logo it will look better imo.

 

yeah ive looked at that. but i think that the bird looks realy small. i think it would look better with the hood filled more than what those stickers do.

 

ok guys let me know what you think!!!

 

Awesome!!!!!!!

Love it, love it, love it!!!!!!!

 

thanks man as you can see i have some alignment issues i have to fix with the front bumper but the car is really a head turner now i love it too. i need to post one of my newer pictures with the snowflake wheels on.

 

would look sweet with a shaker hood!

 

LOVE IT!!! man thats one sexy bird.

 

yes. now get to cutting up that nice hood


looks good without it but i think it would look even better with the shaker.

 

I've always thought it would be cool to try to incorporate a shaker with TPI... I'm thinking of buying a spare firebird hood and try to fab a shaker that will bolt onto the tpi intake....

 

....my buddies 85 that a mentioned in thread a few months back has a shaker. I'll see if I can get some pics.

 

awesome man i love it also. that bird fits great. Incredible work man -Matt

 

My buddy John's TA. Hoodbird with Shaker!

 

that is wicked how did he make the shaker?

 

I like this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...a/ta_001-1.jpg

 

It looks awesome!!!!

 

I'm really liking that shaker too!

 

sorry to get off topic but what kind of rims is he running? they look sweet!

 

A girl living across the river has a 2001 formula with the bird on the hood looks really good too.I like yours as well.

 

ROH Rt's painted black. He custom painted the red line on there.

 

theres a guy around where i live and he has a purple trans am with silver gfx and a silver hood bird the car is absolutely beautiful i have to take a pic of it sometime

 

I like it! Looks good!

 

thank a lot for the comments guys, heres another one... i have two more ideas for my car but i dont know which one i should do. here are the two themes i guess you could say. i was origionally going to do a back and red theme by tinting the front and back side lights, the tail light and the front turnsignal lights next to the flip up lights. the second is making the front turn signal lights clear, making the front side marker light clear and basically doing a red with clear lights theme. let me know what you think and if someone could make a photoshop of the two that would be awsome. unlit then heres a picture of her with the refinished wheels on there it looks even better now!

 

It does look good, way better than I pictured. Later.