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Umm seats, glass, steering wheel, door handles are a few things I noticed.Rack said:Ok... what is missing from this picture?
Ok last one... Car Restore Poll...
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Those look like shaved door handles and alot of people spend alot of money to get that done...Yeagermeister said:
It's very much practiced by sport truck rebuliders...
The doors open with a remote and there is likely a safety release under the car somewhere in case of battery loss... it is a very stealth look...
It appears that the previous owner of this car went stealth and shaved the handles and removed all decals and emblems...
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trickblue said:
The side mirrors as well.
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trickblue said:
It doesn't really cost that much. It won't for me cuz my car doesn't have to have paint removed. Just have to weld over the holes and sand it down.
They're called "Poppers". And I will be one of those people that spends money on it, although it's not that expensive (unless you have a newer car and have to strip the paint, weld, sand, repaint, etc...). You can get a popper (with a car alarm) for $150. An alarm by itself is about $100. Plus since I'm restoring a charger I might of ended up having to buy new handles anyway so it could possibly end up cheaper for me in the end.
It wasn't the previous owner. The current owner is the one that shaved the doors.
Check out this link.
It's a site dedicated to the progress of that guy restoring that charger. On the front page click "When I first got the car". Look at it. Then click "Body" and scroll all the way down after the page loads the 400 pics. Work your way up the pics to see his progress. Amazing job. And that guy had never restored a car before. F'in amazing job for anyone. Absolutely miraculous (IMO) for a first timer.
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BrAinPaiNt said:
Not sure if that guy intends to keep the side mirrors off. I like the look, but it's probably illegal. Although he's in the netherlands somewhere so the law's are different.
I'll have side mirrors on mine but I haven't decided yet if I'll go with chrome (I don't like chrome) or paint them black (not the mirror part obviously).
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Rack said:It doesn't really cost that much. It won't for me cuz my car doesn't have to have paint removed. Just have to weld over the holes and sand it down.
They're called "Poppers". And I will be one of those people that spends money on it, although it's not that expensive (unless you have a newer car and have to strip the paint, weld, sand, repaint, etc...). You can get a popper (with a car alarm) for $150. An alarm by itself is about $100. Plus since I'm restoring a charger I might of ended up having to buy new handles anyway so it could possibly end up cheaper for me in the end.
It wasn't the previous owner. The current owner is the one that shaved the doors.
Check out this link.
It's a site dedicated to the progress of that guy restoring that charger. On the front page click "When I first got the car". Look at it. Then click "Body" and scroll all the way down after the page loads the 400 pics. Work your way up the pics to see his progress. Amazing job. And that guy had never restored a car before. F'in amazing job for anyone. Absolutely miraculous (IMO) for a first timer.
Shaved handles (I'm an old-timer
)... can be a sweet look on the right car... especially a black one...The Charger would carry that look well!
Here where I live some guy drives a late 70's Caprice Classic (the one with the bent back window on the sides)...
It is silver (oxidizing) and every time I see it he has done something different... the latest was shaving the door handles (obviously on his own)... and it looks ridiculous...
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Slightly off topic.
However my Uncle in PA used to always get old road runners and chevells, fix them all the way up, then sell them and start with another one.
He said it was just something he enjoyed, now he is working on an old vette.
Anyways he had this one road runner that was just wicked.
The thing IMO that made it stand out was the paint job.
If you only glanced at it, it appeared to be painted like the charger above, a nice glossy black.
However if the light hit it a certain way you would see it changing colors.
They used a base black and then added different colors of metal flake in a few different sessions. Not too much metal flake, but just enough so when the light hit it just right you would see different colors.
Really was an amazing car.
However my Uncle in PA used to always get old road runners and chevells, fix them all the way up, then sell them and start with another one.
He said it was just something he enjoyed, now he is working on an old vette.
Anyways he had this one road runner that was just wicked.
The thing IMO that made it stand out was the paint job.
If you only glanced at it, it appeared to be painted like the charger above, a nice glossy black.
However if the light hit it a certain way you would see it changing colors.
They used a base black and then added different colors of metal flake in a few different sessions. Not too much metal flake, but just enough so when the light hit it just right you would see different colors.
Really was an amazing car.
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Yeah I've seen those paint jobs. Pretty cool looking, but not really my style. I'm an all one color type of guy. The only way I'd add a different color is if it were ghost flames or ghost something else. Which is basically a different shade of the same color.
Here's a cool looking hood, but a bit overdone. The car and web address ruin it.
ghost flames...
What would ya'll think of something like this on the roof of my car?
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Here's a cool looking hood, but a bit overdone. The car and web address ruin it.
ghost flames...
What would ya'll think of something like this on the roof of my car?
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Rack said:
legal scheagle
when I had my 68 firebird i had seatbelts...in a brown paper bag in the trunk LOL.
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trickblue said:
I think you are right.
Been a long time he had that back in the early 80's.
I tell you that was a bad car.
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Yep, I can testify to that theory. I was almost killed when I was rear-ended by a 1975 ford pick-up truck while driving my little red toyota tercel. Only split timing that God was in charge made the difference be between severe injury or death and being able to walking away with only a small bump on the head.Yeagermeister said:I like the 70 GTO but not in red. Every red car my family has owned has been involved in a wreck. That's why I stick with Blue or Silver
Anyway, yeah restore the Charger that would be sweeter the the GTO's.
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It's been a week since I paid to have the charger shipped from Fresno to Laredo. The guy I talked to told me they would call the guy they were gonna pick the car up from a 24 hour notice before they showed up to pick up the car. They showed up 4 hours after he told me that, and there was no one there to release the car to them.
I've called that place at least 10 times throughout the week and haven't even been able to get a person on the line. The guy that did the deal hasn't returned any phone calls (coincidentally, his name is Gary Gibbs and that company is based in Dallas. Weird, huh?).
If anyone ever has to have a car delivered anywhere I recommend you DO NOT use Dependable Auto Shippers (DAS). They aren't reliable and their customer service f'in sucks.
I've called that place at least 10 times throughout the week and haven't even been able to get a person on the line. The guy that did the deal hasn't returned any phone calls (coincidentally, his name is Gary Gibbs and that company is based in Dallas. Weird, huh?).
If anyone ever has to have a car delivered anywhere I recommend you DO NOT use Dependable Auto Shippers (DAS). They aren't reliable and their customer service f'in sucks.
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