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Old 12-30-2001, 11:53 PM
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Sould I paint headlight buckets yellow to match car???

I am getting some paint work done to perfect the body and am respraying the front end and was thinking of going all yellow,will it look good???
Old 12-31-2001, 12:17 AM
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man, do it...im my opinion it makes the car look really clean
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I think IROCs should leave the buckets black. Unless you are planning on modding your car more extensively, leave the body color ones to the RS's and modified cars. Besides, imho yellow is one of the colors that the black buckets look the best on.
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paint em black
Old 12-31-2001, 02:28 AM
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black all the way, their are many reason's. best put is the pic above; who can agree with that?
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I say paint em black too. I think it looks way better that way. But its your car, do what you want with it.
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I liked it so much that I did it to my Trans Am.
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I say keep the black too!!! It is just part of the IROC look. If you paint them yellow it will be just like any other Camaro. But the guy above said it best about it being your car.
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t is just part of the IROC look

its a z28 and IROC only look
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keep ´em black man
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Another vote for black here.
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Re: t is just part of the IROC look

Originally posted by nagga
its a z28 and IROC only look
I don't know how true that really is, My '87 SportCoupe V6 originally had grey headlight buckets (the car is black) but after the front end was written off the shop painted 'em black


I say keep them black, looks cool
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Re: Re: t is just part of the IROC look

Originally posted by CanadianCamaro
I don't know how true that really is, My '87 SportCoupe V6 originally had grey headlight buckets (the car is black) but after the front end was written off the shop painted 'em black.
Good point. All '86 sport coupes had gloss black buckets.
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