henry172

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I am having my 1997 TA painted in a couple weeks. I am going to buy some vinyl overlays for the bird on the top of the front bumper, the TRANS AM on the doors, the PONTIAC on the rear, and a decal for the center tail light section. I am not sure what color to go with on the vinyl; the car is going to be all white, I am thinking about doing all red, all black, or a combo of both on the vinyl overlays. What colors sound best to you guys?

Zlow28

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i dont really like how red looks on white IMO, but it might look nice if the red vinyl had a black touch to it. Maybe like an outline of some sort. Or even better, id make a black vinyl with a red outline

henry172

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Here is where I am going to order them http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/vinyl/vinyl.htm. I don't think he makes a black with red outline; but that sounds like it will look good.

99'CajunFirehawk157

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Brent will make them any color you want, very nice guy and does great work too.

dubga

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Silver or chromed would look good against white. It shows but it's subtle, not such a stark contrast.

Hartje

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I'd go Black. White cars with black accents always look good, get your windows tinted too, if they aren't already.

Houdini

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Black vinal overlays on my white T/A... I also have the "Pontiac" filled in out back, but no pictures.

Since these shots I've pulled off the side mouldings.






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henry172

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Good looking car, just like mine except I have t-tops. I am going to do black on the doors, the bird on the bumper and on the pontiac on the rear. I am going to go with white on the rear center section bird/trans am. Car is going to paint in two days as long as there is no rain.

99'CajunFirehawk157

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Sweet ride, now ditch the pinstripe too, IMHO

Houdini

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Haha... it's actually on the list of things to do while she's in the garage this winter.

I never really liked the pinstripe, just havn't gotten around to taking it off yet.

JOHNNY59

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Brent is the best!

henry172

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Yes it has to go, depending on how long it has been on it might show in the paint if he removes it. That's why I am doing a repaint; I had a 30th black stripe down the center of the car. I am taking my car in Monday for paint; hopefully if this rain decides to finally quit, then I am going to contact Brent for the overlays. I decided to go reflective black on everything except the rear center section between the tail lights is going to be white.

VinR1

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If its not too late, consider having your BC base white with no tint mixed in. For whatever reason, GM white variants have a hint of yellow. My friend just had his '94 painted straight base white and it makes my wife's brand new white suburban look like smoker's teeth

henry172

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I told the painter I want it as white as they can get. I just dropped the car off today and will post pics this week end; I hope it looks good only paid $600. I did all the sanding/prep work and I also removed the lights, mirrors, molding door handles and more.

henry172

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O.K I went to pick the car up and they screwed up. They tried to pass it off like it was good, but the hood turned out like crap; there are fish eyes and a large run. I pointed it out and they say bring it back in a week and they can buff it all out 100%. I don't think it can be buffed out; the run is built up high and is really rough, the entire hood looks like it has tree sap on it. I guess that's why it was only $600, they cant do a perfict job the first try. Don't get me wrong the paint looks really nice except for the hood. I am sure they will fix it, or I will just have to make the hood peel and get it repainted using my five year warantee. The hood was a new never painted truefiber ws6 hood, what could be the reason for such a crap job only on the hood?

Houdini

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Sorry to hear of the paint troubles.

Good luck to them buffing it out, I can almost picture the hood in my head and it makes me cringe.

henry172

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Thanks, yes its a nice fitting hood looks like the factory ws6 hood, but the paint turned out like crap; I don't think they primed it. I am going to tell them screw the buffing it needs to be repainted and offer to sand it out myself; then I can fix a couple small dings I see in the hood also. It will look really nice when it's all done, but it is just going to take a extra week to finish now. I just got all my vinyl from Brent, but I am going to wait until the paint is done to install them.