ChelsDS

You can only do so well with a point'n'shoot and no tripod!

tmrepp

Looks good Chels!! I need to get around to getting more done and detailing mine..need to clay the whole thing and put a few coats of wax on. Maybe even buff it. Paint wasn't all that great when it was sitting on the lot. I think it was at port for a little while. It had railroad dust seemingly burned into the paint on the rear bumper and a few other spots. Luckily the rear bumper was repainted for another reason as well as both passenger doors.

Keep up the nice work.

ChelsDS

Wow... and you still took the car after it looked that bad? :? Bad dealership! My car is a bit dirty but thankfully my hands were wobbly and slightly blurred things

Thanks

FLEA

Chels, is that the business park near Wild Rivers and Power Toyota/Scion in Irvine?

ChelsDS

It's a street after the street that goes in front of the BMW dealership off of Lake Forest Dr. The parking garage is by the new apartments near the Spectrum.

FLEA

^Location stealer!

tmrepp

Chles, passenger doors were repainted because some kid put a dent in my door with a softball in the body line towards the bottom. Had to be blended with the rear passenger door. Rear bumper was repainted because while it was at the dealer getting the engine mount repaired someone bumped into the rear bumper and left the screw indent in the paint from where a front license plate would be (or was). I never tried to get the railroad dust out, but I would have eventually gotten around to trying. I'm sure it would have buffed out.

nickfury33

I get my HIDs in a week or 2. And the way im getting them installed, the ballasts will be completely hidden and they will look stock. Cant wait :D

bier9999

Pure stock but that's how I like it.

ChelsDS

Nice! Nothing wrong with a stock car what so ever. I still think the xD looks like a bug from the front if you have all the doors open and the wipers pointing out.

Are those the original cobblestone streets? God I wish SoCal had character like that!

bier9999

I live nowhere near the street in the pictures but yeah those are the old cobblestone streets from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The city haven't paved this section of the city since the 1940's when New York were making battleships and destroyers for the war effort. Infact, there is still a fully functional railyard that uses those tracks to export stuff across the factories.

I intentionally took the pictures here for the vintage setting but would never come back here since it is really bad for the suspension and streets full of debris which may puncture my tires.

ChelsDS

I got bored today and realized my battery was charged! :D

SW_08

sweet d you got there......any interior mods?

ChelsDS

Only thing I have is footwell lighting. Too poor for the more expensive mods now lol.

SW_08

well it looks good so far.....i guess im not the only one collecting my pennies.....hahaha

ChelsDS

Thankies! Yea saving up for non car mods now. Aka bills. In my eyes I'm done modding

SW_08

yea bills suck.....espically school loans and whatnot

ChelsDS

So my dad called Scion Corps PR agency to find out where in LA my billboard was and they told him it was off of Beverly and La Cienga by the Beverly Center in LA. Today we went out to LA to find it! Turns out its on a billboard behind a Levi 501 ad so you have to turn around to actually see it. Anywhos, my dad took pictures and managed to get a shot of me against my car when there was very little traffic in the way

SW_08

sweet....

pickledchang

how did you score that photo being posted on a billboard???