I finally bought a car - time to start working on it

[barrrf]

Im strongly considering painting hood and trunk to match the car...............at one time I thought about painting stripes silver.

Opinions?

 

[BOO5TED]

I dont know. It will definitely be an accent color. I think I want the over all color scheme to be silvers/aluminums especially in the engine bay area. I was strongly considering the lower 2/3 of the car be silver and the top 1/3 be arrival blue. But the more I see monochrome cars the more I love them.

Single color cars are nice on the older ones but a buddy used to have a 72 Nova and he painted it blue on the top and silver on the bottom and also had a small 1/4" orange stripe between them to seperate the colors. Car looked awesome.

 

[barrrf]

Single color cars are nice on the older ones but a buddy used to have a 72 Nova and he painted it blue on the top and silver on the bottom and also had a small 1/4" orange stripe between them to seperate the colors. Car looked awesome.

Someday, when Im not a broke dick, I will paint the whole car. But now Im only talking about doing hood and trunk.

And thats EXACTLY the color scheme I was thinking about doing - except red stripe, not orange. Silver on bottom 2/3, Arrival Blue on top 1/3.

 

[barrrf]

Got a few wintery things going on right now. Im going to attempt to make new door sill protectors out of real carbon fiber. I have the resin and cloth - just need to do it.

I started on those side panels. Need to make small arm rest cap and have them covered with 1/4" of foam and the same material I used on the dash. Still considering where to put the stitches tho.

Also doing an experiment with the tail light bezelz and smoothing them out to see how they look.

Oh and bought some of these -

Theyre 18x8 and 18x9.5 TSW Snettertons with Continental ContiSportContact 3s. 245/40F and 285/35R.
Meaty?

 

[Jared]

nice move fgt, kinda wish they were a tad larger diameter...but should look good!

 

[barrrf]

Me too. But tire selection is mucho greatero in 18 variant vs 19 (and cheaper). And 20s just look donk.

 

[Fiesty]

SO jelly. I love late 60s/early 70s Chevelles. I'd love to have an LS swapped one someday. Beautiful car man.

 

[Jared]

yeah, no 20's, still gonna look good imo

 

[mike.]

 

[Ginger]

i would rather have a stout big block than a ls motor in something like this.

 

[barrrf]

Well that makes 1 of us.

 

[Dakota]

Looking good man..those wheels will look great on the car imo

 

[Fiesty]

Well that makes 1 of us.

Imo

 

[Tylers88]

What are you going to do with the suspension? Ridetech stage 2

 

[barrrf]

You mean other than what I already did?

Upper adjustable control arms in the rear and upgrade the front and rear sway bars. Maybe do coil overs someday but Im never going to go on air.

 

[Andrew.]

hnng.

awesome car dude. do you do shows or just cruise?

 

[barrrf]

For now I just cruise. The paint job, bumper fitment, other things I don't think are show worthy. I mean I don't think it needs to be perfect to show it but Im not happy with the way it is now. Granted there are worse cars at the shows.

I could put a sign on it that says "Please don't touch. I don't want you to get dirty."

 

[barrrf]

I mounted them. I don't love it. I don't hate it. It'll do for now. Thinking Im going to space the fronts out 1/2" or so.

I wish I had the dough to paint the whole car silver.

 

[Jared]

needs more "dish", or something. Can't say I feel them right now, but who knows, with the right stance and color, they could grow on me...but it's more what you life than anything! I'd like to see it about another inch low all around.

 

[barrrf]

Def needs more lip. I don't love it. I'll run them until some nice 2/3 piece forged jobs pop up in the pro touring classifieds.