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Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: gatbird on March 11, 2006, 06:11:31 PM
Here's my car, all re-done and cleaned up. Thanks for looking and let me know what you think.

(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/p1d9ed61d54677f854ae0789e7a09c0d9/efdfae12.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/p661900a5b5b9f62a7b529e17b9137520/efdfae22.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/p3f57aa2d331f60a632890b0a02f9acbb/efdfae30.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/p9991c1a106b7164efd60ab53c37a935b/efdfae3d.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/pa09c7319511ee75d34c788b8be67e401/efdfae4d.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid202/p04c9233024e569c5f53c996a14f3b46e/efdfae70.jpg)
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: DakotaEpic on March 11, 2006, 06:25:42 PM
OOOh, love the color.  Grille looks sweet too.  Nice ride.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: 5.0willgo on March 11, 2006, 06:31:45 PM
Ohhh, I can smell the freshness of the paint. Very nice :D
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Clayton on March 11, 2006, 06:33:24 PM
looks awesome bro..... even the smoked headlights

very awesome
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: CougarSE on March 11, 2006, 08:13:32 PM
You need sum neww RimZ For yo ride Dogg.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: DerikWayne on March 12, 2006, 07:45:04 AM
Dark blue is always a good color to go with! lol... nice ride!
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: hundred_dollar_5.0_t-bird on March 12, 2006, 08:59:35 AM
ok . that there is one badass looking car . sweet .

Z
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Funky Cricket on March 12, 2006, 09:42:54 AM
nice color. and the grill is nice.

is the hood on striaght?
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Ether947 on March 12, 2006, 10:30:41 AM
yeah that grill is nice. and those wheels seem to be popular with birds. i had a set... didn't like em though. your paint looks fantastic though. i can only dream of a decent paint job. :)
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Carpimp1987 on March 13, 2006, 03:28:08 PM
looks clean you think about black rims yet?
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Tbird232ci on March 13, 2006, 08:18:51 PM
Black would look like shiznit on his car.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: gatbird on March 13, 2006, 08:48:15 PM
Thanks everyone for the compliments. Its all PPG global paint and me and my buddy did all the paint and body work, even the shaved emblems and antenna. The car used to be dark grey but I wanted something different. Its a dark blue that Lexus used to use (Code 8k8). We jambed out everything (Inside the doors, quarters trunk etc).
We smoked the headlights with a custom black candy and did the grill in a semi gloss black. I also blacked out the chrome mouldings around the windows and re-sprayed the mirrors to freshen them up. The car still hasn't been sanded and buffed, right now its still straight out of the gun.


Funky Cricket: The hood is a bit off but theres a decent reason for that. I had a complete turbo coupe front end on it and about 3 days before we were going to paint it I rear ended a camry and screwed it all up. After pulling the core support on the frame rack and swapping on all the original sheet metal the front corner of the hood sticks up just a bit. I'm sure I could fix it, but its not bad enough, and I'd rather be driving in the cleaned up car than still working on it, know what I'm saying?

I do want a new set of wheels, the old 15" five stars are definantly out dated. I am however looking for a set of darker rims, maybe not black, but graphite. Thanks again all.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: Cougarcruisin on March 13, 2006, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: DerikWayne
Dark blue is always a good color to go with! lol... nice ride!

:iagree: :tetas:
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: DerikWayne on March 14, 2006, 12:02:29 PM
Quote from: Cougarcruisin
:iagree: :tetas:
Couldn't have said it better myself!


I guess we'll always agree on the color! lol
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: BlondeThunder on March 30, 2006, 12:33:49 AM
Hey, your bird looks pretty nice. Mine is in the process right now. I can't wait to get it back.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: jareh80 on April 05, 2006, 07:31:50 PM
hey the car looks great;in picture #5 i can almost see what in the
garage..............................:)
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: gatbird on April 10, 2006, 10:12:41 PM
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=7874 (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=7874")

Thanks for the compliments.  Here are some more pics of my car at the show.
Title: gatbird: 87' 5.0 Lx New paint and other
Post by: thunderjet302 on April 10, 2006, 10:41:44 PM
Nice :D