A trip down Memory Lane........
12-23-2006, 09:18 PM
#1
A trip down Memory Lane........ I was looking through my 100GB of pics I've taken since 2001 of the car and seeing my car when I bought it bone stock brought me to post a few of the various stages it went through up till now. I've changed so many things though on it like the caliper color 4 different times I can't post all but here's a few:
November 2001 a week after I bought the car
January 2002 - Front bird decal/door decals
February 2002 - Damage from a 24ft Budget Rental truck backing into my car while I was behind him at a stop sign
Stripe Kit I designed - April 02
April 02
June 02 - Foglight decals
July 02 - Rear bird decal
Nice Dent compliments of stupid ex - Aug 02
Dent repair, also new firehawk wheels & Bear Eradispeed Rotors - Nov 02
Flames taped - Nov 02
Base for Candy Paint
Candy Flames
Repaint with regular Paint - Late May 03
November 2001 a week after I bought the car
January 2002 - Front bird decal/door decals
February 2002 - Damage from a 24ft Budget Rental truck backing into my car while I was behind him at a stop sign
Stripe Kit I designed - April 02
April 02
June 02 - Foglight decals
July 02 - Rear bird decal
Nice Dent compliments of stupid ex - Aug 02
Dent repair, also new firehawk wheels & Bear Eradispeed Rotors - Nov 02
Flames taped - Nov 02
Base for Candy Paint
Candy Flames
Repaint with regular Paint - Late May 03
. It will go through one more change on the outside hopefully come spring time. 
12-24-2006, 07:45 AM
#7
Thanks for the compliments. The reason I had to change from Candy paint to regular was first I got a chip in the hood about the size of dime and it cost $400 due to how candy paint is. For those that dont know as I didnt Candy paint is transparent ....kinda like a Jolly Rancher. In order to get most of the colors you see they lay a base coat on it and depending on the color of the base coats as you see in the one pic of my car, the color of the top color changes. So when you go to do a repair it's very hard to get it to blend....edges will get darker and darker the more you lay on top. The painter did a pretty good job on the repair and you could barely see it was darker. A few months later I tapped...and I mean barely tapped a cement parking lot thing with the front gfx and it scraped the paint off across the front lip about 12". Of course if he tried to repaint/fix that the orange would end up looking brown so I said to just repaint all the flames. I wished he'd told me about candy paint knowing it was a daily driver and going to get chips/scratches....it would've saved me $1400! 
. He left the candy paint in the tips and the rest he repainted. It was totally awesome when all the flames were Candy. The paint just had this 3 dimensional look and just looked like it was "one" with the car. Wished I could've kept it that way
. He left the candy paint in the tips and the rest he repainted. It was totally awesome when all the flames were Candy. The paint just had this 3 dimensional look and just looked like it was "one" with the car. Wished I could've kept it that way Trending Topics
04-12-2007, 12:04 PM
#9
Very nice and gutsy to go that far w/ the car. I like it...
I'm curious though, why do you have "Michelle's 2000 Trans Am" when that is not a Trans Am? or do you have a Trans Am in adition to the Formula.
I'm curious though, why do you have "Michelle's 2000 Trans Am" when that is not a Trans Am? or do you have a Trans Am in adition to the Formula.
04-12-2007, 02:54 PM
#11
Originally Posted by CAMAROZ28SS
nice car. paint looks good. get a TA spoiler now
and TTMs...i think...pretty sure.
amazing the changes isn't it michelle.
04-12-2007, 03:15 PM
#13
That's a cool montage, I enjoy seeing stuff like this. I don't see much of a difference between the candy paint and the regular paint anyway, so it's good to save a few bucks huh 
It looks really cool. Pewter is such a hard color to coordinate with, but you did a killer job with the orange/maroon. Who would have thought that would have come out so good. I love the firehawk wheels too, that would be a great upgrade for my car.
It looks really cool. Pewter is such a hard color to coordinate with, but you did a killer job with the orange/maroon. Who would have thought that would have come out so good. I love the firehawk wheels too, that would be a great upgrade for my car.
