Not to sure if this was ever asked before. I didnt find to much on it when i searched....But anyone with a formula please put up a pic of you can. Im just curious as to how many of them are still out there. Preferably 87-92. But if you have any others....post em anyways. Thanks. Heres mine to start it off.....My baby "Lucy" with her 2 day old paint job, moldings, and decal kit with stripe accent.

 

Buying a 90 Formula on Saturday... took a couple pics when i was looking at the car(pretty crappy weather but what do you expect from NJ in the beginning of feb)... been posting under nickyg but that was my dad's user name so now i got my own bird and my own name...heh

 

wow thats pretty crappy lets try this



http://www.geocities.com/s24adida/Derek_Formula_1.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/s24adida/Derek_Formula_2.JPG

 

i have one

 

here is my formula

 

Thats great guys.....lets keep em coming.

 

Here's mine on Pike's Peak

 

My 1991 Formula

 

 

here's mine



can you guys see these pics?

 

awsome! love Ronal firehawk wheels. Nice to see people with formulas out there taking good car of them. Keep em comin! BTW....erik......man...Love your license plate man......made me laugh histerically. Nice to see someone with a sense of humor with a nice formula. Nice work.

 

Gorgeous cars guys. I want a formula so bad it hurts. I wish I never put the ground effects on now.

 

Here's mine.

 

 

Formula!!

 

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it's a scanned pic but here it is last year before it died on me

 

my 1990 formula 350

 

Nice cars. One of these days I'll take a pic of mine and post it.

 

I love Formula post!! Here's mine

 

 

deadbird...thats a formula? looks like a TA.

 

If I'm not mistaken, deadbird has added the 85-90 T/A ground effects to his formula.

 

He's got the TA ground effects. He's too good to have nothing around the bottom like the rest of us formy guys.

 

No more stickers.. but I like it without now.

 

lol, ok, j/w.

 

wow....some really really nice cars guys. Nice to see so many still out there. Chevymad:: Is that the new c5 vette blue? I think its called "dark navy metallic? Well whichever it is.......i think it looks really nice. Keep up the good work everyone!

 

Here's my 91

 

www.geocities.com/admrlam/Bird.html

Its been off the road for some time now.... Waiting on new rims, TA bumpers and GFX (to replace the funky kit thats on there now), and a spoiler.....

 

thats great guys. Thanks for keeping the post going. Some really nice cars. It would be something if we all met up sometime and took a cruise someplace....have like a huge caravan of formula's go down or up to someplace. I did that with my brother with a vette crew. Bout 500 corvette's in all. C3's, C4's, and brand new C5's. Talk about alot of fun. We all drove down to Bowling green where the aseembly plant is.
Its just a thought....im going to try and see bout going and meeting up with the new england f-body club somtime this spring. Dont know for sure yet...got to wait and see how long its going to take me to get my car all done.

 

If any f-body club passes through the southern central plains region, I'll be there.

 

Heh... very funny

I was gfx-less at one point but, somebody graciously ran a red light in front of me fixing that problem...



Seeing some of your cars does make me wish I had just put a new formy front back on (or change to a 91-92 nose) and left it at that at times though.

 

Sig

 

Here is mine...nothing done to it yet but have big plans as soon as the money comes. Pretty grizzly under the hood huh? I hope this forum is around a few years from now becasue this car is going to be great.

 

Sorry, other picture did load onto other post.

 

Fyrelance, I dont understand your car at all.

Im confused because it has some qualities of a formula, then many that do not.

First of all, is that original paint? If its not, that would explain why "Formula" is not on your car on the doors or rear, as well as the 5.0 liter sticker is wrong. It would be a cooler font that says 5.0 LITER FI (For example my old bulge hood said 5.7 LITER FI)

Also, did the original owner have a different set of wheels on it or did you damage the stoke ones? Stock formula wheels are 16" as well has not having the insides painted black. For example, look at Tom Kelihers original wheels in this post.

Also, the Aero Spoiler is missing. Maybe the person you bought it from stripped the car or something?

 

Here's my '92 Formula.

 

Very close to that color actually. I was trying to pic between that color and 2002 midnight blue pearl metallic, which is what i went with. They're very hard to tell apart. And I did that paint job myself!! In a hay barn in fact! Turned out really sweet.. especially now that its been wetsanded.. Now if winter would end so I could keep it clean.

 

Yeah i heard that about winter ending. Everytime i go to put my front tires back on is starts to snow again. Man, i cant wait for summer to get here. I got a list of things a miles long to do on her......at this rate i wont have any time to drive her....lol. LOve all your guys cars though...really nice. Thanks for keeping the post alive. Its nice to see so many formula's still out there. Take good care of em cause IMO but there getting really hard to find....especially ones with low miles and that have been taken care of.

 

Don't worry, it's not just you.

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First of all, is that original paint? If its not, that would explain why "Formula" is not on your car on the doors or rear, as well as the 5.0 liter sticker is wrong. It would be a cooler font that says 5.0 LITER FI (For example my old bulge hood said 5.7 LITER FI)

No, the paint is not original. In fact, this car has been restored, information I acquired via Carfax. (Imagine my surprise ). The thing that really gets me is that there is a very defined, noticable line where there is an extra layer of paint that you can see and feel with your finger... it's like they repainted the lower half of the car! What's up with that? So, yes, this does explain the lack of "Formula" written on the car, as well as the Bulge sticker.

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Also, did the original owner have a different set of wheels on it or did you damage the stoke ones? Stock formula wheels are 16" as well has not having the insides painted black. For example, look at Tom Kelihers original wheels in this post.

I imagine that these were changed with the restore, though one of the rims has a big chunk taken out of it, I don't even WANT to know how that got there....

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Also, the Aero Spoiler is missing. Maybe the person you bought it from stripped the car or something?

According to the previous owner of my car, he tried to remove the spoiler (for G<x>od knows what reason...) and broke it, and that's why it's not there. Yes, my car has had a lot of idiotic previous owners.

Though many people on this board seem to love the look of my car with no spoiler (and I kinda like it too since it makes it unique), I am going to be replacing it with a fourth-gen style wing. I am also in the process of doing body work, and the hood is going to be replaced with a Ram Air II hood. The rims will probably be replaced with ROH Snyper's, 17". So all those little issues aren't much of a problem... it makes me feel better customizing the car a bit as opposed to tearing into a perfectly good, stock Formula.

Every time I take something apart on my car I find something IDIOTIC that a previous owner did. Don't even get me started.... :: sigh ::

 

You painted that car in a barn?
Would you be willing to describe the process you used, what type of gun, hong long it took you, a ballpark cost, etc. My daily driver could use paint, but being a daily driver it doesnt have to be anything real nice. I thought about trying to paint it myself this spring. Thanks a lot.

 

I love these threads ....

These are all old pics from last summer. Now he's got 95 T/A Rims with Kumho ECSTA 712's. I can post more, if needed.

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#3 - My favorite pic of the car

 

Brett, theres over $1k in materials there. I partially disassembled the car. Sanded everything down, primered with eurethane primer, sanded, reprimered repeat, sealed, laid the base coat down, then clear. It's all dupont products. The plastic bumper covers and spoiler I did seperately. They were sanded down to the base material. Sprayed with adhesion promoter, sealer, base coat, then clear. The plastic parts use a different sealer and have flex additive added to the clear.

You'll find if you buy paint products that everything comes in a minimum of quart sizes. Whether you need it or not.. and quarts always seem to run $50 or better! My paint was bout $150 a gallon. Clear was a bit more. So the cost of paint isnt too bad. It's all the reducers, hardeners, cleaners etc that start runnin up the price. Every component(paint, clear, primer etc) uses different hardeners and reducers.

As far as equipment goes. I have a 5hp craftsman compressor, dual action sander, inline sander, long hand board, cheap touch up spray gun for doing jams and small parts, and my trusty Binks 2001 spray gun(not hvlp), oh and of course a breather!! You definately need a water/oil seperator for the compressor, and use a disposable filter at the gun too. Nothin worse than sprayin moisture in with you're new paint.. Learned the hard way once.

 

Hey I appreciate that info a lot. I think a few others on here may have painted their cars and also said they had a little over $1k. Buddy of mine got his mustang painted, clearcoated, and a new fender put on for 900 bucks. And it looks pretty good. So I may just go that route since its a daily ride, but thought I'd check with ya first anyways. Thanks again.

 

yeah i got to give you credit chevymad....car look awsome considering the fact you did it in a barn. hey...whatever works right? Looks great though.....keep up the good work. Nice cars guys...really nice.

 

One more pic of mine

 

wow! i had my heart so set on getting a TA but after seeing these pics, i want a formula! let see some more pics! anyone have a pic of a formula with crager SS rims?

 

Fyrelance-

Thanks for clearing that up. I didnt want to call you out as not having a formula I just was confused because of the circumstances. Your plans sound badass

 

Today I saw the nicest 92 formula I have ever seen, it was white very very sweet. Ive seen it twice before once in the autotrader and then once at a school, and its for sale now for 5,900 ( so im trying to work things out so I can buy it) wish me luck guys. Its a 350 92 with t tops!

 

Good luck!