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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 06:31 PM
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Here are some pics of what two solid days of work did for me


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What do you guys think.
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 06:40 PM
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Looks good.
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damn not bad at all. looking good.
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what did you use to paint the wheels with?
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 07:05 PM
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Looks good, but when i did it i polished the spokes and lip and painted the rest black including the center caps..
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paint came out great!
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Great job man the car look very nice.
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Looks awesome. Great Job!
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Nice JOB that looks sic!!!! Time to Lower that badboy.........BB
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Car looks good man. Real clean
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Yessir I like it....

Looks like you masked the wheels off perfect. Good job.
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 09:36 PM
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Thanks guys, i realy busted my *** to make sure i masked correctly! actualy took me 3 hours per wheel to sand/mask/paper each one. As far as the paint, i used VHT caliper paint, and VHT satin black wheel paint. Another member on here reffered me to this stuff.
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Looks good. Now you need some more black accents to go with the wheels.
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damn that looks clean..its obvious u put in the time
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 03:17 AM
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Looks good. Now you need some more black accents to go with the wheels.
agreed. berger panel is next!
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Great job! That's effort well spent
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That looks a 100x better man. Looks really really good.

Oh and I have a Red tool box.... I want a black one like yours! Looks badass lol
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Awsome job. Those wheels look great painted like that. GM should have done that to start with.
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damn that came out really well, you can definitely tell you took your time looks great.
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Old Nov 11, 2007 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BlkBird2000
That looks a 100x better man. Looks really really good.

Oh and I have a Red tool box.... I want a black one like yours! Looks badass lol
lol yeah the black matches the rest of my garage!



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