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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:29 PM
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Well I finally got around to taking some pictures of my new (to me!) T/A. I traded in a 2003 truck with 1/3 the miles to get this puppy I just couldn't resist passing up having an LS1 car of my own. Its a 98, with the "rare" Red-Orange Metallic paint and tan/black interior.

I am in love with this car. Only mods I plan on doing to it for now are a WS6/SLP H.O hood and repaint the front bumper when I get the hood painted. I just dropped $650 on new tires so there went my hood money. For the year it is and with the miles it has its in amazing shape. Well, on to the pics!













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well im tired of figuring out why photobucket decides to resize the pictures whenever the hell it wants to so excuse the different sizes
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:38 PM
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beautiful car man!!
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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Beautiful car! Are you sure that isn't Cayenne Red Metallic?
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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very nice car
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 08:51 PM
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Yeah its Cayenne red metallic although the pontiac name for it is red-orange metallic (at least that's what my searches led me to believe). I know there's a few hardcore guys here that might jump on me for saying its cayenne red although it does sound a lot more exotic

But thanks!
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 09:24 PM
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man, if you were gonna spend $650 on tires, you should have got some rims, you can get ZR1's for cheap like 400-500 bux
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 09:42 PM
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Nice car man.

I would definitely save up for some rims though, the stock ones really detract from an otherwise beautiful car
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 11:26 PM
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Yeah rims are definitely on the list but of my other project. I also own an 81 Firebird, a 91 s10 blazer with airride and a channeled body (current project) and a 68 Chevelle. Right now I need to get the Blazer finished to drive it to next year's Texas heatwave where i'd like to show it. I know some of you won't care for it but here's where its at right now
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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 11:50 PM
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Nice to see another ROM T/A around. Congrat's on the car! Looks good!
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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 07:52 AM
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Nice car I thought it was a SOM.
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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 11:29 AM
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i saw a firebird that was the same color the other day and i was trying to figure out what the hell color that was, its right in between being SOM and MRM. it bothered me so i had to look it up and found that that color was only an option on the 98's. very interesting. u should throw a WS6 hood on there and it would look really good.

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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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Nice lookin T/A.
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Old Aug 17, 2006 | 09:39 AM
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just ran the RPO codes and found out it comes with 3.23s. One less thing I have to worry about changing later. These are perfect
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Old Aug 17, 2006 | 11:00 AM
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Nice find! Definately wheels/hood/tint/lowering springs and that bitch would be bad *** looking! Just my .02.. Very cool car man!
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Thanks! All those mods in due time my friend

Right now I have one project I'm in a hurry to finish, then I'll worry about the mods for the T/a
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Old Aug 17, 2006 | 01:14 PM
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Very good looking T/a man. Keep it clean!
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Camaros are "Cayenne Red Metallic", but Firebirds it's called "Red-Orange Metallic". Having a taupe interior makes it a pretty uncommon car. They made 149 Trans Ams in that color in '98, dunno how many of those were taupe.
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Old Aug 18, 2006 | 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by DrEvyl
Camaros are "Cayenne Red Metallic", but Firebirds it's called "Red-Orange Metallic". Having a taupe interior makes it a pretty uncommon car. They made 149 Trans Ams in that color in '98, dunno how many of those were taupe.
But its still actually the same color though right??
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Yeah, places like paintscratch.com listed it under cayenne red and my local paint place said the formula table calls it cayenne red as well
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