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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 01:02 PM
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hugger orange??? yes.. no..

i have a white 90 rs. I am thinking of painting my car hugger orange with the white hood and lid stripes.. but i have red interior... think it will come out nice?? or will it look tacky ??? please post picts if you happen to have a orange camaro and inputs are welcome
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 01:23 PM
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Sounds cool to me, might not match but it would be original. If you do send me some pictures, sure do love hugger orange with white stripes .
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 01:32 PM
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yes yes yes thats an awesome color to go with
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 01:57 PM
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I've seen a few hugger orange camaros, and didn't like any of them. The color just doesn't work on thirdgens.

And red guts with orange paint? Nasty.
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 02:12 PM
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If the car is well done, it could pull it off quite nicely.

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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 03:00 PM
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Oooh, I think it would look awesome. Do it.
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 03:09 PM
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definatly do it, and watch the movie super troopers, theres and orange camaro with the stripes your talking about if you want to see what its gonna look like.
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 03:20 PM
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yes yes yes get orange. i have red interior also and was going to paint the body orange despite the interior. i mean, how many people are you actually going to show the entire car too? 99.9999% will only see the exterior, which will look badass. but i think you should go w/ black stripes. below's a pic of a guys camaro on ebay (I think he's a member on here actually, i've seen pics of his car on here before).

oh, and btw, you should see super troopers whether you want to see the camaro or not:sillylol:
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 04:03 PM
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Zupman has a BADASS Hugger Orange Camaro. That ****er is beautiful.
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 06:48 PM
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go for it....seen a few camaros hugger oranger & they look good
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 07:30 PM
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I thought so.. I never saw the black on orange, i like it im gonna look in to it... Any other paint scheme suggestions combos? what about keeping the white and running the orange stripe??
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 08:50 PM
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Do it!

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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 09:30 PM
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CamaroRS385hp, do you know what kind of wheels those are on that Camaro pic you posted?
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 09:34 PM
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i have a orange camaro. its in the events page under the f-body gathering. take a look!
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 09:39 PM
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theres a guy by me up in hugo with an orage camaro... looks sweet!
Originally posted by CamaroRS385hp
oh, and btw, you should see super troopers whether you want to see the camaro or not:sillylol:
Thats a funny movie one of my favs... but the guy driving that camaro was dumb, one of friends said thats how all camaro owners are.. let it be he only has a pusstang...

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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 10:45 PM
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I thought that car on ebay was red, its just the pics make it look orange.

Anyway, I think hugger orange with red interior would look ugly. It would look great with black interior.

Make sure it gets painted right though (door jambs, under the decklid and moldings, engine bay).
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Old Aug 5, 2003 | 11:52 PM
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Originally posted by tpiroc
If the car is well done, it could pull it off quite nicely.

That car looks sweet minus the orange around the headlights
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 12:08 AM
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i think it would look sweet black strips on orange with the head light pockets black too
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 12:44 AM
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Nate86.....they're triple chrome plated C5's.....it was something like $1200 for the rims, $4-500 for spacers, and then a good amount on tires also......looks great but a crapload of $$
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 01:24 AM
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What rims are those on the car that tpiroc posted?
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 04:34 AM
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 06:14 AM
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tpiroc how much $$ were they ??
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 08:31 AM
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hugger orange doesnt look that good on a third gen, maybe if it had some stripes on it it might look better .
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 01:37 PM
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Originally posted by twolfe
tpiroc how much $$ were they ??
Summit has them for $275.95 a rim (17x8) so $1103.80 for a set. They have them at 8.5", 9" ($305), and 12" ($458) wide too.

BTW that's not my car... when it was on eBay if it hadn't been SO expensive it might be
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 02:11 PM
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you would have had some competition with that one tpiroc i was looking at it too, but the buy it now was $8500 or something like that
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 02:22 PM
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Hugger orange, good choice, but a bad luck color, lol. I only say that since mine was totalled a few years ago.
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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 05:09 PM
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Ever concider reversing that color scheme and making it look something like this one? or even doing it hugger orange with the hockey style stripes I think that owuld look cool too.

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Old Aug 6, 2003 | 07:08 PM
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I actually had saw that on another 3rd gen.. i was looking in to the hockey stripe.. But i think just a stripe would not look very good with the red int.. I can do red but everyone has that ....
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Old Aug 7, 2003 | 04:25 PM
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Sounds like a great looking color scheme to me. It's also VERY original. The only set-back (to me) would be the red interior. It may look tacky, but there's no telling how it might come out. Let us all know what you're plan is. I'm sure everyone is gonna wanna see it after it's done.
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Old Aug 7, 2003 | 07:43 PM
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yea i think its gonna tack the car up... i think ill go with the red hockey stripe on white. i will post picts as i get the car painted though..
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 08:01 AM
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Nate86.....they're triple chrome plated C5's.....it was something like $1200 for the rims, $4-500 for spacers, and then a good amount on tires also......looks great but a crapload of $$
Look very nice though! :hail:

It goes well with orange, although I'm sure it would go well with any other color also.
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Old Aug 9, 2003 | 11:31 PM
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in the end, the wheels, spacers and tires where like $2100 for all. My car is actually a 2000 Corvette Tourch Red color, but for some reason, some of the pics it looks more orange. Thanks for the praise though. ttyl
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Old Aug 12, 2003 | 01:26 AM
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i say go for it!
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Old Aug 12, 2003 | 01:27 AM
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here's a shot of the wing.
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Old Aug 12, 2003 | 01:35 AM
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here is a picture of a car with it reversed.
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Old Aug 12, 2003 | 10:41 PM
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Id say def go wit it!!!!!! as soon as i get the money im deffinately doing my car hugger orange. i think it looks sooo bad ***
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Old Aug 13, 2003 | 09:02 PM
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sounds good

Sounds good, my buddy painted his 88 gmc truck with huggar orange lowered too looks nice idn about the red interior though, but i guess you could give it a shot
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Old Aug 13, 2003 | 11:07 PM
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I had the red and black interior as well. But I solved that problem with new seats and about 15 yards of sandstone/tan tweed, lol. It looked great. I'm thinking of an orange based color for my Firebird also. Actually the color on "Project Copperhead" on Trucks, "Copperhead Metallic" from PPG. It's just a '00-03 Ford Ranger color with a bit more metallic, tints and pearls added.
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