ok guys and girls sit back, get a snack its time for a story

i have a V6 3.1 1992 firebird and its been through everything

1. snow
2. ice
3. floods
4. 2 hurricanes
5. 1 tree
6. 2 front-end accidents
7. 1 rear-end accident

In short it been through a lot so I finally decided to fix her up and this is what I have on body parts 2 fenders, front & rear bumper off an 88 GTAand a 92 formula hood with the driver side crowl. The fenders have some surface rust and are burgundy I want to paint them Fire Red the same color my firebird is now. The bumpers are also burgundy

Now this is my first time sanding and painting a car so i need to know what the best way to attack this project and how to sander and paint the bumper because people are telling me I need a different type of sand paper, paint and clear coat for them since there made of plastic or something.

Now to complete the GTA look, I want to take all the ground effects off the car, the ones on the lower doors and on the lower quarter panels I just don’t see how I’m going to do that without break them off.

I also would like any input on it the fender fitting and front-end body alignment and what problems I will run into in doing this project.

And don’t worry once the body is done a nice 350 is going in this bad boy.

I will post picture on how im going

 

Headlights maybe?

 

Rust-O-Leum "Sunrise Red" is a perfect match in color if you want to paint them cheap until you get the whole thing painted.


Regular sand paper (dry/wet) will do just fine. You can use any type of paint you want. I painted my car with Rust-O-Leum, then when I did a color change I used tractor/implement paint.


All GTA's had ground effects. Do you mean Formula? Formulas don't have ground effects. The GFX unbolt from the car, but there are metal supports under them that are riveted to the car body. These holes will need to be welded up. The holes will be around 3/8" diameter all the way down the side of the car from the front og the doors to the rear bumper.

 

i have the headlight assembly to with the sleepy eye look and the Pontiac emblem on the driver side the sealed bulbs are alot bigger then my lights are is that because this car didn't have fog lights

 

really the GTA had ground effects ooo damn it well a gta look on a Formula style ....... mmm may have to rethink this .... but the fenders i have are form a GTA and they dont have the 2 holes on the back buttom for the body ground effect to bot on to them and these came off a GTA i took them off my self mmm could it have been an older style GTA ? without ground effects

 

ok the body style is 1989 Firebird Formula like this http://www.iroczone.com/Carlisle2007/firebird04.JPG i still can't tell you why these parts where on an 88 GTA its driving me crazy

 

GTA badges are easy to stick on to any car. And yes, all GTA's had GFX.

 

yea your right because i check the VIN number its 1989 Firebird Formula damn so i have a formula body -.- ewwwww
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