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Old Oct 30, 2006 | 01:14 AM
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So Im Thinking About Painting My Lt1 Camaro Cherry Red Metallic And Im Kinda Wondering What Else I Should Do To It? Should I Paint The Ss Scoop Black With The Black Berger Or What? Does Anybody Have Any Ideas?
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So Im Thinking About Painting My Lt1 Camaro Cherry Red Metallic And Im Kinda Wondering What Else I Should Do To It? Should I Paint The Ss Scoop Black With The Black Berger Or What? Does Anybody Have Any Ideas?
I would paint the mirrors body color but leave the roof and headlight buckets gloss black...

A satin black berger panel would be cool... A gloss black manta w/ stripe on hatch would be cool as well
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Old Oct 30, 2006 | 11:35 AM
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Yeah definitely do a red/black theme, you cant go wrong with that......
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i would do that cherry red metallic, with charcoal gray SS scoop, Black and Silver emblems, no berger with Stainless Steel inserts, black roof, powder coated, paint matched callipers
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thanks for the ideas, keep them coming!
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Go with a metallic black/candy red
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