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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:33 PM
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Painted my firebird formula a Dodge viper color! With full videos of resto

So over the long winter of 2020/2021 me and a good friend of mine decide to paint my 1988 firebird formula! Here are a few videos and photos of my old bird getting refreshed exterior!
check out my youtube channel if you want to see more!
I Will post pics and videos on this thread as time goes on!
Definitely subscribe to my youtube channel TheWiscoGuyz doing a lot of videos with my third gen so check them out!


But first here are a few photos of when I got the car... Sitting in a field back buy some tree's in 2009.. I haven't seen it since like 2003 at that time

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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:36 PM
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I found my aunt's old firebird! Gave her a call soon after.




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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:39 PM
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My brother and I got it running and drove it home that night.
Got it in the garage and just sat and looked at it. The interior was a mess and full of junk. But it was home.



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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:44 PM
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Got it cleaned up! 2010

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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:52 PM
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So in late 2019 I posted this pic of the firebird on my Facebook...
caption was..... My camera on my phone got better.
And with that I knew it was time to do something!
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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:54 PM
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So I started tearing it apart in August 2020

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Old Apr 19, 2021 | 07:57 PM
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Here is the first video of the start of Painting my firebird https://youtu.be/-6Z92bxcabs
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Old Apr 20, 2021 | 01:48 PM
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Re: Painted my firebird formula a Dodge viper color! With full videos of resto

Is this a thread just to promote your youtube channel? I did check out a few of your videos. Some were ok, but some were not very good IMO. For instance your video on the install of the hawk's spoiler. If you don't mind the constructive criticism, you didn't show nearly enough detail of the spoiler such as every attachment point on the spoiler and the car. I also felt you spent way too much time focused on uninteresting things like showing instructions which you were also reading aloud.
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Old Apr 20, 2021 | 02:33 PM
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Thought I would share my pictures and videos on the painting of my firebird. Maybe help someone out of they have a question or need a picture of something. Maybe motivated someone to start there project? And promoting youtube is one reason but documenting some things as well to. But I can only get better with constructive criticism.

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Old Apr 21, 2021 | 06:42 PM
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I was watching some of these....i wished the hawks spoiler instal lwas more detailed. that could have been an awesome vid to link her.e.


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Old Apr 23, 2021 | 04:06 PM
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Re: Painted my firebird formula a Dodge viper color! With full videos of resto

Originally Posted by macneilbibi
Thought I would share my pictures and videos on the painting of my firebird. Maybe help someone out of they have a question or need a picture of something. Maybe motivated someone to start there project? And promoting youtube is one reason but documenting some things as well to. But I can only get better with constructive criticism.
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
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