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Old 01-23-2007, 06:52 PM
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Old 01-23-2007, 06:54 PM
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Old 01-23-2007, 07:45 PM
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another freaking orange camaro... but A DAMN BITCHING LOOKING ONE!

love it , mine will be painting in a year
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I like it. Not normally a fan of the ram air hoods on Camaros, but it looks real good with that orange
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slick looking paint job! still don't know what color i'm gonna go with on mine...

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Is that Hugger Orange? Great job, now get it together!
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72 hugger orange
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Looks nice!
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Wow! That looks great! What wheels will you be running?
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honestly, I needed to get my sun glasses out to look at those pics. Nice job bro
Old 01-25-2007, 04:37 PM
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Wow! That looks great! What wheels will you be running?
these in 17x9 hyper black.
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Old 01-25-2007, 04:52 PM
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cant wait to see it put back togeather
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cant wait to see it put back togeather
you and me, my wife,dad,brothers and the rest of my family as well..
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i love the ram air hood. i have one i am waiting on getting it painted
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Where you getting those rims at?
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Where you getting those rims at?
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Nice jub dude, did ya do it yourself? How much of an investment was it for paint and bodywork?
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Looks good man. U going to use some black accents? ( headlight pockets strips)
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Love that hood
Love that colour
Love your car.

Wanted to do mine hugger orange, maybe i will next year
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I'm thinking black racing stripes. Don't like the hood on a camaro. I would check out group A wheels website for those Snypers first. Might be cheaper. Oh, Make sure to tint the windows and try to break up the color with something, thats alot of orange there.

Still good though.
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wheels are bought and paid for, the hood is what sets it apart, and i love orange and am undecided on stripes as of now. GO VOLS & Tony Stewart.
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looks like the color I'm going with but with some flat black somewhere to break it up a little...not sure yet though.. Cant wait to see all together good job!
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Hugger orange is an awesome Camaro color, however Pontiac hoods are a no no for Chevy cars!
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Originally Posted by jay92,85,79
Looks good man. U going to use some black accents? ( headlight pockets strips)
needs some black to break up the orange, but it still looks killer
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My likes that truck too.
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are there any stripe design sketches posted anywhere on this board?
any custom pics of stripes?

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Re: New paint

a few updated pics...had shoulder surgery so couldn't do anything for some time..
http://picasaweb.google.com/stephanne.dennis/Camaro/photo#5119154418333165410 http://picasaweb.google.com/stephanne.dennis/Camaro/photo#5119154465577805730
http://picasaweb.google.com/stephann...54405448263506
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Re: New paint

Good job...
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Paint looks great. I would recommend a hockey stripe like this one:

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Re: New paint

awesome paint job, been debating on hugger orange for my sport coupe, already have the hyperblack zr1's, haha...
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i like the car. good job. all the work you put in to doing it the right way the first time paid off. my only suggestion would be to add black stripes and paint the head light recesses black.
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Gorgeous! Gotta love an orange Thirdgen hehehehe

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Re: New paint

I like the orange, I agree though needs to have some black accents somewhere. Go TONY STEWART!!!!!
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definitely black the headlight wells.. it looks meaner.
Old 10-19-2007, 10:17 PM
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thanks to all for all you great comments and suggestions, i really do appreciate others who love a clean third gen car.......i will be putting some type of stripes on it bua don't know what as of yet and i still haven't seen any camaro's with the ram air hood and stripes but i'll keep looking.......thanks again
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Re: New paint

just painted a fourth gen that exact same color, it does look totally bitchin on any camaro.
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wow, car looks awesome, love the color dude.
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