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Old 10-22-2007, 10:49 AM
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Default Some pics. Input on appearance mods. Silver 97 TA

I had clear corners on my old black 95 firebird, and I loved it. Not sure about clear on silver though. I want to either black out the corner lights or clear them. I also am thinking about polishing the rear filler panel black. and getting black decals for the Trans Am on the door, to replace this maroon color that does not match whatsoever. Also the front calipers match the maroon. Probably gonna do black or silver painted calipers.

So vote:

Clear, black, or stock corner lights
Polished or decal rear filler
Black or maroon decals
Black or silver calipers

Supporting pics would be great. Since these pics I have applied the black PONTIAC rear insert also.



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clear corner lenses
not an lt1 or the front lenses but shows the clear looks good on silver:

polished filler piece

I'd say get rid of the molding and soor decals but if you want to keep them go w/black
and black decals
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Clear corners
Polished rear filler
Black decals
Black calipers

gets the win for me
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keep the LT1 tail lights. Few have them now. Rare to see them in exellent condition.
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Heres what I did with my LT1 taillights. Kinda hard to see but I blacked out the reflective strip on them and tinted the 3rd brake light. I still want to black out the center filler panel but thats another day.
Go with silver calipers and smoked marker lights.
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Polish filler piece
CETA mod
Paint calipers
!side molding

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Old 10-22-2007, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by White.Lightning
Polish filler piece
CETA mod
Paint calipers
!side molding

Andy
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ceta mod and debadge/detrim it
Looks good so far man!
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Originally Posted by 98TA86
clear corner lenses
not an lt1 or the front lenses but shows the clear looks good on silver:

polished filler piece

I'd say get rid of the molding and soor decals but if you want to keep them go w/black
and black decals
totally agree. get rid of decals and molding, clear corners, blacked out polished filler panel. hhh
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Originally Posted by 98TA86
This guy turned to the dark side and purchased a new Mustang. I loved that car though.
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with that car. i would:

-silver calipers
-black CETA
-polished PONTIAC inserts
-polish up the filler panel between the tail lights
- !molding
- VHT the front markers and rear sidemarkers
-tint (if you don't already have it)

FIN! haha

and btw, the car is already beautiful. sleek lookin ride brotha.
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Originally Posted by highlander316
keep the LT1 tail lights. Few have them now. Rare to see them in exellent condition.
Yeah, there's NO way i'm putting honeycombs on now. I love LT1 tails. Mine are in great shape.



Originally Posted by tbird31
with that car. i would:

-silver calipers
-black CETA
-polished PONTIAC inserts
-polish up the filler panel between the tail lights
- !molding
- VHT the front markers and rear sidemarkers
-tint (if you don't already have it)

FIN! haha

and btw, the car is already beautiful. sleek lookin ride brotha.
It's got 20% tint on sides and rear. and thanks a lot!

I think I'll do polished filler panel, and black/silver calipers, and black decals. Not sure on CETA, !moulding, or side lenses yet

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Originally Posted by michaelg589
This guy turned to the dark side and purchased a new Mustang. I loved that car though.
That's gay. I was just about to give him props, that TA looked hot.
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Yeah, definately keep the lt1 lights. My 96 ta had the same lights as yours until some idiot hit one of them and it cracked. I had a nightmare trying to find another passenger side one that was in as good of shape as the other. It seemed all i could find were ones where the plastic was delaminating from the black underneath. In the end, I bought a nice set of ls1 tails and kept the lt1's, just in case i ever see another good lt1 tailight.

Nice car BTW, i think it looks great already. Smoke the front corners, and do the CETA if you want and that should be all.
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Did a little bit of photoshopping. I love it. I want those tips from that silver car!

And a half-*** photoshop of smoked corners. I think I'm gonna go with the smoked corners from ebay. The smoked corners should look way better, that's just a paintbrush.
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Originally Posted by HoLLo
Did a little bit of photoshopping. I love it. I want those tips from that silver car!

And a half-*** photoshop of smoked corners. I think I'm gonna go with the smoked corners from ebay. The smoked corners should look way better, that's just a paintbrush.
The tips are Corsa tips. They make clones, Joshua used to sell them on here. There are a few sets still creepin around here for like $100.

and for what it's worth I'd do the !molding...sooo much cleaner.

my car before:



my car after:

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that is one of the cleanest V6's ever, tbird31
looks awesome with the drop and firehawk's.....i love white cars
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go with the smoked
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Are yours VHTd or smoke lenses?

i want these:
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sel...RD93_SMOKE.jpg



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