Been working body and paint in my new garage since late Summer. Finally drove it yesterday. Before:



Today (in the garage):



Hope to do the final buff and polish tomorrow. Supposed to be mid-60's and sunny. Can't buff worth crap in the garage (and it slings all over the tools and stuff). There's a bunch of compound still showing in this pic that hasn't been cleaned.

 

love the black an gold theme...great look for the TA's
Is that a Pontiac Gold- looks closer to the Mopar/maybe the pic

I used theMopar gold before to just have a slight darker gold and so i wouldnt actually match any stock combo....kinda lil step to just be a lil different.

Sweet look though

 

I hope my own looks that good some day.

That gold definitely is darker than the stock. Looks slightly copper-ish. Could just be the lighting in th garage though.

I look forward to seeing more pictures. I'm still undecided on whether or not to replace the stripes along the bottom after I get around to the body work. Seems to look fine plain.

 

hey sweet car there, I myself have an 85 but i never got a chance to look at the rpo sheet before i just bought it back, did the 85's also come with the gold as a primary color and the black around the bottom? not 100% sure, I can't figure out if mine came stock like that because the center console is now gone along with the rest of the interior. Someone used it as a doner before i tracked it back down

 

The gold was the same match to the factory but the more you applied the darker and deeper it got. In my before pic you can see the darker under door gfx against the door gfx. I replaced the under door piece with a used one from a later, either 86 or 87, a few years back.

I'm not going back with the square dot fade striping along the bottom and I'm trying to find a kit that excludes them but still has the solid 'TRANS AM' decal. All I've found so far is the '87 kit that has the outline 'TRANS AM'.

 

looks good and for further reference, theres really no reason to quote an original posts pics...

 

my bad half asleep here been under my le mans all day.... i was just curious if my car could have come stock with the color combo it has

 

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I found the tail lights at the JY a few weeks ago. Scored a decent leather steering wheel the same day.

 

Old tail lights:



Sweet deal for under $25 and the left over head light polish stuff from doing my wife's VW.

Random pic from trip to FLA in October:



How COOL...

(That was taken from my Camaro.)

 

What a beautiful 85 TA. Black and gold color scheme defines 3rd gen TA's for me. I'll have to settle for my dark red monochrome bird.

 

Gorgeous car. The color combo is fantastic.

I don't think you'll find anything like that. From the factory, 85-86 had the solid lettering, but they came with striping. 87-90 had no striping, but came with the outlined decals.

Try giving Phoenix Graphix a call, I'd bet they'd be willing to assemble a custom kit with exactly what you're looking for.