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04-23-2025 #61
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I haven't worked on the much at all lately with selling the house and moving/working on the new house. The good news is that we're getting ready to start on the new garage (pretty stoked about that, I'll post some pictures of that when it's going up too).
On a side note, the car isn't on the back burner completely. It's currently at the body shop getting a couple things put on that I think that it should've had put on when it got painted the first time! Sneak peak below
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04-23-2025 #62
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Much better.
Red Forman: "The Mustang's front end is problematic; get yourself a Firebird."
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04-23-2025 #63
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Thanks! Haha, I think so too. Since I bought this car, I never have understood why the guy painted it like a Trans Am and left the base hood on it and put a Camaro spoiler on... Putting the right parts on it has been on my to-do list for a while. Hood pictures will be on here soon!
Originally Posted by 68Formula
Much better.
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Thanks! Haha, I think so too. Since I bought this car, I never have understood why the guy painted it like a Trans Am and left the base hood on it and put a Camaro spoiler on... Putting the right parts on it has been on my to-do list for a while. Hood pictures will be on here soon! Originally Posted by 68Formula
Much better.
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04-23-2025 #64
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Gorgeous car; I always thought the '69 T/A was the best-looking version of the first-gen F-bodies.
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04-24-2025 #65
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Agreed, just so much better
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04-25-2025 #66
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Thanks guys! I knew I was going to change a couple things when I bought it. If it was going to be a clone of any type, I wasn't going to let it be bad clone Originally Posted by Bulletpruf
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04-30-2025 #67
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The stripe layout on the car wasn't spot on to begin with so I wasn't extremely set on making it match "what it should've been from the factory" but it's not far off from it. The roof isn't getting repainted so the width of the smaller stripes is going to stay the same. I played with lining everything up to my liking and came up with this. Dimensionally, it actually isn't far off from the GM manual specs on spacing and such (the outside stripes on my car are 1/4" whereas the OE ones were 1/8"). From looking at the survivor cars and textbook restorations, it doesn't even seem that those cars were consistent with how the layouts were. Some look straight from front to back and some are angled worse than mine are. I think these will be just fine for a counterfeit Trans Am.
PS - the cowl panel is getting painted as well so it'll all line up properly.
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06-02-2025 #68
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Got the car back from the body shop last week and put a couple hundred miles on it on Saturday. I'm loving the car more and more especially with the new hood and spoiler
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06-07-2025 #69
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Fabulous, I've always loved those Gen 1 Firebirds.
Cars are meant to be driven.
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3 Weeks Ago #70
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Thanks! I'm very happy with how it came out! Originally Posted by jaybee
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