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Old 05-17-2015, 08:14 PM
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Default Looking for some appearance ideas for my car.

Other then the obvious ::: needing a paint job::: I don't have 1800 to do it right now

What can I do to make my car look better

It's my dd

I'm thinking of removing the side molding.
Thinking of black wheels when I have that much funds available.
Needs lowered

I want to incorporate as much black as I can into the car



Black grill. Red and black emblem. <br/>Idk what type of lights I could do














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I have a red one also. Browse my gallery to get some ideas.

facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150146798025830.348313.620660829&type=1&l =aef5477154

your going to have to copy the entire line above and paste in browser
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Originally Posted by jaxcam02
I have a red one also. Browse my gallery to get some ideas.

facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150146798025830.348313.620660829&type=1&l =aef5477154

your going to have to copy the entire line above and paste in browser
Facebook didn't work. Says unavailable. But went to car domain link. Very nice ride. All looks great. I want the gauge overlay, lid, and painted calibers.
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Originally Posted by Uziguy18
Facebook didn't work. Says unavailable. But went to car domain link. Very nice ride. All looks great. I want the gauge overlay, lid, and painted calibers.
Thanks man, if you copy the entire link it should show up, for whatever reason the forum is shortening the link automatically so I removed the "www." it shows up for me on my incognito tabs so it should work for you. I was editing it for a while to try to get it to work. If not its all good.

For your car I would get black housing headlights and new tailights and some wheels and drop it and youll be headed in the right direction.

**** this link is not working at all. Oh well
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Headlights, whisler mod wud look great on there, and cheap to do yourself. Or a cheapnset used ones.
Under spoiler/pedistals black, plasti for 15 bucks.
Tail panel berger mod-15 bucks
Night shades on marker/corners-15

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Originally Posted by JDEP162
Headlights, whisler mod wud look great on there, and cheap to do yourself. Or a cheapnset used ones.
Under spoiler/pedistals black, plasti for 15 bucks.
Tail panel berger mod-15 bucks
Night shades on marker/corners-15
Agreed!!
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Originally Posted by JDEP162
Headlights, whisler mod wud look great on there, and cheap to do yourself. Or a cheapnset used ones.
Under spoiler/pedistals black, plasti for 15 bucks.
Tail panel berger mod-15 bucks
Night shades on marker/corners-15
better to do that panel black or to just make the camaro lettering black?
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Flat black berger panels look awesome on red cars.
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Step 1: polish those nasty foggy headlights up
Step 2: Plasti-dip the rims black for now till budget allows better rims
Step 3: Berger panel black out
Step 4: thorough cleaning and polishing of the existing paint to make it as nice as possible

or sell it and get a Trans Am, LOL.

I was down in your area 2 years ago next month (the one and only "road trip" I put this car thru), lets see if you can ID where from this photo (really wish I had this shot with how my car looks now).

maybe this shot with the black dip on the car will inspire some ideas for yours, think outside the box, use the dip to create custom graphics.
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Originally Posted by Uziguy18
better to do that panel black or to just make the camaro lettering black?
Whole panel flat or matte black. Red letter inserts if u choose to.
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And I agree with Daniel, polish her up best u can. Harbor fright buffer and some pads and supplies for 85 bucks did a world if difference on mine, and its black. I think urs will shine up nice with some time in it. Check out junkman's paint correction videos on YouTube. Heck he's on here too and knows his stuff
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Originally Posted by JDEP162
And I agree with Daniel, polish her up best u can. Harbor fright buffer and some pads and supplies for 85 bucks did a world if difference on mine, and its black. I think urs will shine up nice with some time in it. Check out junkman's paint correction videos on YouTube. Heck he's on here too and knows his stuff
The issue is the previous owner rattle canned the car..
Over the pin-striping, over defects, hell even over tools he left in the engine bay.
I bought ultimate compound and ultimate polish and all it did was turn my towels red and didn't bring it back.
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Originally Posted by Uziguy18
The issue is the previous owner rattle canned the car..
Over the pin-striping, over defects, hell even over tools he left in the engine bay.
I bought ultimate compound and ultimate polish and all it did was turn my towels red and didn't bring it back.
Ahhhh, that be suck. Sorry, in that case, maybwanna look in to plasti dip or wrap the car till u can afford a paint. Some dipped cars look great. Or make friends with a body shop owner lol
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Get rid of that plastic cheap looking antenna. Hawks third gen sales one that looks factory but it's shorter than the factory. Think it's like 25 bucks.
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Originally Posted by Tuskyz28
Get rid of that plastic cheap looking antenna. Hawks third gen sales one that looks factory but it's shorter than the factory. Think it's like 25 bucks.
I actually got it for free from a member off here that's local. It's rubber or whatever. Looks better then the stock metal long *** one.

I'll take a look at the one you're talking about because with this short one I don't get my favorite radio station anymore.
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Originally Posted by Tuskyz28
Get rid of that plastic cheap looking antenna. Hawks third gen sales one that looks factory but it's shorter than the factory. Think it's like 25 bucks.
They have a 3.5"
Or a 8"?
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Originally Posted by Uziguy18
They have a 3.5"
Or a 8"?
http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/antenna-shorty-8-antenna/

looks great on my car!!
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Paint the mirrors red and/or plastidip the car (do the mirrors the same color as the fender), get rid of the shitty looking printed spider paper cutout stuck to the lid, clean the engine bay, and paint the front upper bumper support pieces black.
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I'd say save your money on all those mods, to make the paint right on that car. Paint it.. even if it's just a maaco job.
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Originally Posted by EnergyCC
I'd say save your money on all those mods, to make the paint right on that car. Paint it.. even if it's just a maaco job.
A Maaco job would be flaking off his paint inside of a month with the condition his existing paint is in.

If Maaco is pursued it should be only AFTER the car has been cleaned of all that rattle can crap and block sanded and primed.

My last honda had a Maaco job that started coming off the hood in under 2 years from when it was sprayed and the PO paid extra for prepping the surface of the old paint and all they did was sand the edges of all the old clear coat bubbles.

Remember a paint job is 90% prep work, a trained monkey could do the actual spraying part.


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