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Old May 7, 2015 | 11:23 AM
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tell me what you think

After a long hard winter of body work I saved this rusty old firebird and made some modifications to the body most on the hood let me know what u think of it, its got a couple more coats of black to put on now and it will be ready to go
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Old May 7, 2015 | 12:39 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

I think I'm missing what modifications you're referring to. What exactly did you do?
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Old May 7, 2015 | 12:46 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

Well its a trans am, no pop up headlights and I removed the antenna and filled the hole
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Old May 7, 2015 | 12:52 PM
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oh, the lights! DUH!

looks like good work.
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Old May 7, 2015 | 03:33 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

how are you going to place the lights?
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Old May 7, 2015 | 04:32 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

Cut out a 1" by7" for the LEDs in the old plastic of the pop ups and Mount the plastic to the actual bumper, and put small halogens in the fog light holes
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Old May 7, 2015 | 07:49 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

Wow, nice work! I'm very interested to see the finished product
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Old May 7, 2015 | 08:28 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

I will post some Pics when done!
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Old May 18, 2015 | 11:11 AM
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Re: tell me what you think

Paint is done going to start putting it back together hopefully today after work
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Old May 28, 2015 | 08:36 AM
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Re: tell me what you think




Just have headlights left will work on those while my heads are in the machine shop
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Old May 28, 2015 | 08:52 AM
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Re: tell me what you think

Looks pretty cool. I'd do away with the red screens, seen that on a lot of backyard paint jobs, not a fan.
I assume you know the headlights won't pass an inspection, but it will prob look really cool.
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Old May 31, 2015 | 09:47 PM
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Re: tell me what you think

If you tie that red in with other aspects of the car it might look alright...
I did mine in a matte gold (same VHT high heat gold I used on the motor) but it doesn't really stand out due to it not being such a heavy colour, plus the car is a black and gold scheme to it.

That angle also really shows the screen more than most angles so it is probably more defined that it really is.
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