Is it me or does the hood look like its slightly misaligned with the nose? I just ask because its the same on my car...

 

Wet sand that car man i see orange peel :P

 

Nice Job Bro! Love the color.

 

'87 I'm with you on liking the decals towards the back, but it is an '87 so we figured they should go back on the front side.
It was like that when she bought the car, and we tried to re-align it when we put the hood back on the car after it was painted but we couldn't get it to come down anymore. It doesn't really bother her or I, and besides she's getting an SS hood in the spring so this one will come off soon anyways.


We have wetsanded it, it's dang near impossible to get rid of all the orange peel on a garage paint job.

 

wow that didnt take long. Good job and get some more pics

 

Wow man I remember you posting pics of that car when you guys got it, I know how much work it takes to do a transformation like that, Congrats to you guys, nice work!

 

Yea I think we got a lot done since February when she bought it! Thanks for the kind words

 

copy cat...

looks good man, tell your girlfriend i said she has a nice taste in styling.

 

Those are two very bad*** rides, man. I'm loving the colors on both of those 3rd gens. You guys did an amazing job! Now if I can just get my girlfriend interested in old camaros..

I like the portable 'vert cave' in the 5th pic of your last picture post.

 

They're pretty close aren't they? You have the 17's right? And yours is maroon, her's is some metallic red Ford color

Thank ya, yea that's my sweet Z-tent.

 

Looking goooood..........

 

yes 17's and mine is actually flame red. but i think the paint mixer guy put too much pearl in it. it is really orange in the sunlight at the right angle. i actually have the stripes and iroc-z stickers to put on my car at the house but i like the smooth look a lil better i think. i might throw the iroc-z decals on the back of the door to see how i like it but idk. her car looks very good man. done any drivetrain work?

 

Man I thought the same thing about the paint when we did that '89 IROC-Z hardtop. THis was supposed to be "Flame Red" but it sure looks orange in the sunlight to me



Her car has full exhaust and that's about it...well K&N's too but that doesn't really count. I put PaceSetter shorties on it and it goes to a gutted cat, and a 3" Hooker catback, it's loud and kinda raspy at WOT, sounds great.

 

Excellent job....you should be proud

Seeing the dark red makes me think of painting my car back to that colour.

 

i have been contemplating switching to that hooker muffler. i have alot done to mine and the flowmaster has a nice sound to it but it just blends in with the crowd i want something a little different my dad has heard the hooker before and he said it was more high pitched sounding, he says it sounds alot better than my flowmaster. i just gotta fiqure out what i am gonna do with the thing b/c i just bout a 67 rs. that is on the verge of being badass, so i need to start fixin that up. its got a ford 9" that is shortened, detroit speed and engeneering mini-tub, rear coilovers, 4-link suspension. full custom floorpan, bodydropped. all custom trunk with a 20 gallon fuel cell sunk down in the back. all hotchkiss front suspension, 4 wheel discs, and 17x9.5 with 27540/17 front tire and rear 17x11 with a 315/35/17. so it is coming along i just gotta find an ls1 t56 doner.

 

That's pretty sick to have a 1st gen like that at your age (my age). Does it look pretty nice or is that part of the project?

 

its coming along. check my myspace page for the pictures. i am still undecided on the motor. i want to run a modded ls series motor with a t56, but i might go with a serious sbc with a power adder and backed with a t56. i want to go ls series we will see. i should be getting it back soon so me and dad can thrash on it to get it runnin.

 

that thing is sexy! very impressive!