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Dec 4, 2003 | 12:36 PM

darrensls1formula

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Is this rice or is this cool?

I have a 99 Pontiac Formula. I got a great deal on the car but unfortunately it was white. I like my cars to have some color. Blue, Silver, Red are all nice. And of course Black looks good (just hard to keep clean). After awhile I looked at repainting the car but I could find so many better ways to spend $3000 on my car. So after lots of searching I found this decal kit. It was designed for the Pontiac Firebird line. I choose the same color that GM used in the 30th anniversary TA decals. I have gotten lots of compliments but my brother n law says I riced out my car. First of all they are not stickers, they are vinyl. The kit was $200.00 and I installed them all myself with the help of a friend.

Please look at all the pics and tell me what you think. I thought it gave the car some much needed color but what do you think? does this look riced out? should I have left the car alone or do the decals look nice?

Thanks in advance for any and all opinions and sorry for the poor quality of the pics.

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Dec 4, 2003 | 12:55 PM

Sheomet

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WTF is he smoking? It looks good.

Dec 4, 2003 | 12:59 PM

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Before I opened the link I said "I can already tell that this car is going to look bad."

When I opened it my co-workers and myself said "That looks pretty Good!"

Nice job.

Dec 4, 2003 | 01:07 PM

darrensls1formula

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Thanks!

There was a lot of glare from the sun so believe me whan I say the decals are a brighter color of blue then the pictures indicate. I especially love those little birds on the sides. They look so cool.

I used some left over decal (it was designed for a TA so I had the spoiler secion left over) to light up the badges. For a couple of rookies I though we did a great job of installing them straight and without creases or bubbles. Maybe we can open our own decal installation service, hmmm. Nah it was a royal pain to install them and I was glad when it was over. Took three hours but taking our time was key or it might have been real ugly.

Thanks for the kind words

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Dec 4, 2003 | 01:22 PM

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I like it too

Dec 4, 2003 | 02:02 PM

DanoHB

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That looks great. I used to have a 98 firebird before I got my T/A and it was white too. I like the way that turned out for ya. Good job.

Dec 4, 2003 | 02:12 PM

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Looks good! Can't go wrong with blue on white.

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Dec 4, 2003 | 02:32 PM

Steve1969LS1

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Looks good to me

"RICE" is one of most overused and misused terms on earth..

Dec 4, 2003 | 02:43 PM

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I was thinkin the same, that if someone has to ask "is this rice?" that majority of the time, it probably is.

Least i can say, in this case it aint true. Its definatly different, and looks pretty good. Good job

Dec 4, 2003 | 03:28 PM

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Tell your bro-inlaw to put down the glass pipe and slowly walk away. That looks really good.

Dec 4, 2003 | 04:05 PM

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darrensls1formula

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Thanks a lot guys.

I agree the term "rice" is thrown around way too much. I think he figures decal=sticker=rice. I have seen an older Toyota Supra in town here with a huge commando wing and at least 50 different stickers all over the car. Now to me that's riced out. But what I did was a decal set that was designed for a pontiac trans am. It has the classic hood bird with racing stripes but it all looks uniform and in place. Heck I have another brother-n-law that actually thought it came from the factory like that. I had to explain to him that I bought a kit and did that myself.

Thanks for the kind words. I thought it looked real sharp too. He just doesn't like any look but the natural paint I guess.