Its hard to be original and is frustrating at times.

[CAMAROBOY69]

I was about to buy some rear bumper brackets on the Classic Industries site when I noticed the Cammotion camaro. I took a closer look at it and I see that it has a similar 2 tone paint scheme to what I want to do. Mine will be black on top silver bottom with orange stripe. The Commotion camaro has silver bottom, orange stripe, but dark red top.
Well at least mine will have some sort of flames at the rear of the orange. But still with doing that I feel like I am copying other members rides. Just cant win. I am sticking to my paint job even if 20 other people get it done before me. :hammer:

[toofun]

Well Adam,

With all the creative little things you have done to your car already, Im sure copying someone elses paint scheme is not going to make your car a carbon copy!! I can say that you have raised more than a few eyebrows on this site though, so dont be surprised if many copy YOUR ideas for their own rides.(yours truly included!!) Love what you did with your exhaust,bumpers, and license plate. If my car was not already painted I would copy that in a second!!! Just dont have the stones to cut into it now!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

Mark
TOOFUN

[Jim Nilsen]

Hi Adam, Your car is looking great and your ideas are innovative to many that have never seen what you do. These cars are very old and so many creative people have done things to them that being original is very difficult. No 2 cars are the same unless you try very hard to make them that way. Many stock original cars are still different from one to another in some little option or another even though from 20ft they look identical

I too am like you and try to have something noone else has done but don't get too discouraged if you see that it has already been done.

LeVan Prothero went 200 mph when the Camaro first came out. I wish I had a dollar for every person that has said the aerodynamics of a Camaro have to be altered a lot to do it. He didn't even have a rear spoiler on the car he did it with,just a front one. So many things have already been done but they weren't always as refined and engineered the way we are today and Bob Johnsons Cuda points to how far we have come.

So keep raising the bar one more car at a time and eventually many others will see something they can relate to from another car style they like and finally accept what we do here.

Keep up the good work and don't let it get you down, remember there are many of us trying to be original here and if we all help come up with new ideas in a different time frame no one will be like the other .

Jim Nilsen

[JoshStratton]

No doubt. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen someone asking about putting a 4th gen interior in a 1st gen car. Each time I point them to your car. You are by far the earliest person I know of who has done it. Not only that, but those cool-@ss dash plates you make...mercy. I just cant wait to see it painted! LOL.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and all on what I assume is a limited budget. I only assume because I think we are about the same age (28-29), have a house and a woman to keep happy, and dont have the backing of a major corporation in our builds.----> This isnt assuming you older folks dont have the same issues. Just trying to represent the new breed :)

Keep up the excellent work man! Give all us young whippersnappers something to strive for.

[CAMAROBOY69]

Thank you guys for the positive feedback. I have been working on this car on and off for over 3 years all by myself and everything I have done to it since I saw this site has been in a positive direction. I had many of the ideas 3 years ago of what I wanted, 4th gen dash and interior, 6 speed tranny, Viper/Lamborghini exhaust. However its like you said Kuhlryde, im on a budget and I really dont make much money at all a year. My girlfriend makes mabey a 1/4 of what I make. I spent the last 3 years buying whatever I could afford to piece this dream together.
I am extremely flattered that I get soo many e-mails and questions on the interior and the exhaust I dont mind at all. It actually feels great knowing that people are interrested in what I do. The exhaust set up is turning out so well and I am excited to get it all finished up and covered in primer.
I really really want to try and paint my car this year and as everyone knows its one of the hardest decisions. Soo I will stick to the silver black 2 tone paint scheme and just accept the fact that in a world of thousands and thousands of talented car builders, my car WILL be very unique. Even if others finish the ideas I have before I do. :twothumbs :grouphug:

[astroracer]

I wouldn't worry about it Adam... Do what you have to do. Your car looks great and you are well on your way to becoming a good fabricator.
NOW, if you still want to talk original ideas, you should build an Astro Van... EVERYTHING has to be an original idea or it doesn't get done...
To me, Camaros all look alike... :help!: :help!: :help!: No! Wait! I was JOKING!
Mark

[CAMAROBOY69]

Mark I have said this many times that your work on the Astro is probably the most inspiring build I have seen in my life. Not only did you design the entire build top to bottom on the PC using unigraphics, but you are actually building it too!! Next to a build like that, most of us are just dirt in the tread of your van. Even if I could design something like that, I would not be able to afford to build it. :hail: Mark and Bad Ast
Oh BTW I thought you were going to make a site for Bad Ast? When you make it let me know and I will link to it on my site with your brackets.

[BonzoHansen]

Your car is great. Paint faster. :)

[vanzuuk1]

No matter what colors you choose , its been done. I painted my bike a bright orange and then the "orange wave" hit..dont worry about it, paint it how you want.

[speedster]

Adam -
Paint the car the way YOU want it to be. Nothing personal, but heck with what everyone else has done...it's YOUR car. And if you can't decide, I can always stop by and help you paint it with a brush and some POR-15 until you do... :scared:

[Steve68]

Adam, copy Smokey before everyone copys your idea!!!

[shmoov69]

Try having a red 69 Camaro with TTII's!! :nopity:

[DarkBuddha]

One answer: don't build a Camaro. j/k, but it really does seem that everything good that can be done with a first gen Camaro may have been done by now. Maybe time to find a nice alternative... maybe you can start a p-t trend with a Vega or a Chevette.