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Old 08-14-2006, 02:10 AM
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so i finally got off my lazy butt and basicly finished my painting...just have the scion emblem left and then door handle and door um...i guess the door grabber? i dunno the thing you pull to close the door lol.









and i BARLEY fit in my driveway as is...





scratch that...i scrape in half of it....



let me know what you think? the good the bad and deffinetly the ugly.

feel free to give suggestions of things to paint and or change..im open to everything i love new ideas.
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I think it's super clean, look's great. Even the stock hubs, if that's what they are, look awesome.

My mom would love this car, she love's the Saints.
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Old 08-14-2006, 02:50 AM
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looking awsome!!!!! really like the paint job with the 2tone, good job........
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Old 08-14-2006, 02:54 AM
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Looks great man, I like everything about it so far!
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That would be very popular here in Steeler country!
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Old 08-14-2006, 04:13 AM
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whoa, dayumn sexy!!
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Wow - you even manage to do something cool with the stock hubcaps! Definitely sharp.

The one wee thing I don't groove on is(/are) the inserts on the left and right side of the bottom grill. They're painted solid gold, but the bottoms of the honeycomb-shaped wells need to be black. But that's a nitpick.
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Old 08-14-2006, 04:28 AM
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Not feelin the lower grilles or the hubcaps, but the rest is killer!
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Originally Posted by Gsnorgathon
Wow - you even manage to do something cool with the stock hubcaps! Definitely sharp.

The one wee thing I don't groove on is(/are) the inserts on the left and right side of the bottom grill. They're painted solid gold, but the bottoms of the honeycomb-shaped wells need to be black. But that's a nitpick.
i agree...i noticed that after i did it cuz my lip doesnt line up but im a poor poor man right now so i cant get new grills or wheels or anything of the sort so i just made due with what i had lol.

i'll be taking out the bottom grill again and painting the bottoim pieces black again so they dont stand out as much. ''

as for the sides, they are going to be removed as soon as i "requisition" some projector fog lights that i think will fit perfectly in there, from work.
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Just making due with what you've got is how some of the coolest stuff gets done - especially in terms of coolness-per-dollar ratio.
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Old 08-14-2006, 07:40 AM
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lol, just by looking at the houses and the driveway's, I just KNEW it was either Washington or Oregon lol.
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Tight...clean job, I like it!
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Meh.....
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Looks awesome to me!
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Bling bling?
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Looks realy good for the most part. Like someone else mentioned I would paint the lower grills black again and I"m not really feeling the hubcaps. I would either paint those black as well or get rid of them and get some beauty rings for the stock steelies if you can't get rims right now.
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looks good. whats that thing in front of the shifter? looks like a screen of some sort. how did you go about painting the interior parts? they look really good.
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looks like a bee to me. i like it, its different. some bronze work wheels would set it off!
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Originally Posted by raceronabudget
looks good. whats that thing in front of the shifter? looks like a screen of some sort. how did you go about painting the interior parts? they look really good.
Looks to me like some beads or something similar wrapped around the shifter.
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Old 08-16-2006, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by raceronabudget
looks good. whats that thing in front of the shifter? looks like a screen of some sort. how did you go about painting the interior parts? they look really good.
its just my xm radio reciever display thingy....and yeah thats my gf's necklace wrapped around the shifter.
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