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bigz28man · 09-19-2012, 03:53 PM

box is completely out now

vinyl letters...time to go soon new Emblempros black mirror letters to come

it was harder to get these letters off then it was to take off all that vinyl on my 02' what a little bastard this was.

progress being made......SLOWLY

done...a half hour was spent on that.

bigz28man · 09-19-2012, 03:59 PM

rocker panel is defiantly fubar

remember guys I bought this car in newark off a newark cop, who actually is good friend of mine now, but man this car was in a bad area.

bigz28man · 09-19-2012, 04:53 PM

So the plan is to have the quarters sanded and prepped ready for paint by the end of this week, also what is coming at the end of this week are the hood, fenders, doors, front and rear windows, rear hatch, berger panel and rear bumper cover. The car will be going into the shed as bare is it can be....completely stripped down.

bigz28man · 09-25-2012, 06:49 PM

took these the other day, the car is completely stripped down down....photos to come.

figured I'd post this photo of the car, a few days before it went into the body shop

bigz28man · 09-27-2012, 05:12 PM

some photos from the body shop, new front bumper cover and SS hood tested fitted. they looked pretty good without even making any adjustments, obviously some do need to made.

a huge piece of bondo in the rear driver side quarter

bigz28man · 09-30-2012, 10:39 PM

I'm thinking about doing a black mirrored 396 badge under the driver side tail light. I know that's not the norm as far as location goes, but i was wondering what you guys thought?

sweetbmxrider · 10-01-2012, 07:37 AM

That could be cool. Or get rid of the z28 badge but leave the bow tie and do it there under the passenger tail light.

Blackbirdws6 · 10-01-2012, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider

That could be cool. Or get rid of the z28 badge but leave the bow tie and do it there under the passenger tail light.

I like this idea better than a badge on the other side.

Jersey Mike · 10-01-2012, 07:49 AM

Ditto that. Less is more.

bigz28man · 10-01-2012, 07:59 PM

I think I'll leave it alone. I just cant wait till it's done and submit photos of it to njfboa in hopes that it makes it as car of the month.

bigz28man · 10-06-2012, 03:30 AM

here are some photos of the Z i took, i guess its something to be happy about seeing that the SS wants to have tranny issues.

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driver side rocker panel repaired

bigz28man · 10-13-2012, 01:40 PM

I took a bunch of photos of the car yesterday which i will upload later. The car should be done by next Friday or the Monday following. I also picked up a 10x20 storage unit for it so it will be put away once its done for the winter.

bigz28man · 10-13-2012, 10:32 PM

some photos from the body shop the other day

bigz28man · 10-13-2012, 10:44 PM

the hood still needs to be sanded and the front bumper needs to be primed and and sanded but its getting there. I was informed that the those two parts would be done today.

greenformula92 · 10-14-2012, 08:36 AM

looking good so far

ar0ck · 10-14-2012, 10:55 AM

God damn this project is coming along nicely!

bigz28man · 10-15-2012, 06:41 PM

some photos from today. I showed up alittle early was hopping to get there as it was being painted but Mouse told me he was giving me all the photos on a cd.

bigz28man · 10-15-2012, 06:46 PM

the car has gone a long way since I dropped it off. Still a bunch more that still needs to be prepped and sanded ie. hood, front bumper cover. I also decided to get all new rubber molding around doors, windows, new door hinges. well its getting there.

sweetbmxrider · 10-16-2012, 07:23 AM

Lots and lots of work, can't wait to see it finished!

bigz28man · 10-17-2012, 02:14 PM

Well guys the majority of the car is done. All that's left is what you see that needs to be sprayed, put back together, final wet sanding and buffing. the front bumper cover still needs to be cut into and the black gloss applied, where it was on the previous bumper.

bigz28man · 10-17-2012, 02:29 PM

Well guys thats it for now. I'll be taking more photos come friday. End of next week and the car will be completely done.

bigz28man · 10-19-2012, 04:00 PM

Great news everyone, all the parts have been officially painted and are ready to be put back on the car. Also got most of the new window and door molding in today. I'll post photos up later today. To my suprise on how over cast it was today, one photo i took still shows my reflection.

WSex · 10-19-2012, 04:38 PM

looks great!!

bigz28man · 10-19-2012, 08:18 PM

so here are the photos from today, I was not able to get photos of the hood, seeing that it was in the paint booth drying.

bigz28man · 10-19-2012, 09:01 PM

small piece of information here. seeing that GM used various sebring silver paint codes and clear coats as well throughout 95-02. I decided to us the 2002 paint codes seeing that 3/4 of the 02' car will be repainted. Might as well have them match