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Old 07-09-2010, 10:14 PM
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Firebird Paint Project

Last yea around September i bought a base firebird from a guy around the corner.being where is snows and useing salt on the road it was kind of a good find being garaged in the winter. well now its time to paint it because it has one of the awesome gm paint jobs (just kidding). pics go up tom. i wanted to start a thread to show the progress.

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this is it as of now.
Old 07-19-2010, 08:51 PM
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this is the car as of now. going to paint it dark metallic brown. i think the color is dark chestnut. then i am thinking i will do the bottem the gold. and the spoiler also gold i havnt seen that on any other third gens and cant wait to do it. will have more pics by the end of the weekend.
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Old 07-19-2010, 08:57 PM
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does anyone have pictures of a differant colored spoiler? or t top cover bars. i would like and idea of it.
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Good work! It took me about 3-4 months to have mine driveable again.
Old 07-24-2010, 12:53 AM
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Well i went to get paint today and i got my codes done and found out the car was not originally brown and gold. i had my eye on meduim quaser blue metalic so that what i went with. ill be shooting next nice day
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finally done with it. just some wet sanding and putting the decals back on. came out good.
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finally done with it. just some wet sanding and putting the decals back on. came out good.
is this a rattle can job? not trying to be a d1ck or nothing, maybe the angle but the paint looks uneven.
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yea the paint looks really uneven
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