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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:58 pm 
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Have you decided on Pro Tour or Trans Am for the look ? I got to admit although the PT look is awesome I got some early TA DVD's and I'm sold on that nostalgic race car look.
At the moment I'm leaning towards the Trans Am look like my white T/A (pics posted elsewhere). I just can't make up my mind :lol: I'm torn between keeping it looking like a nice clean Z/28, red with black stripes & just the Superlite wheels as a deviation from stock looking, OR,... going the T/A route with the period decals, race number 37, similar to those on my T/A, or possibly white roundals, with the name SoLoCo Camaro in gold leaf lettering (pinstriped in black) emblazoned down the rear 1/4 panels.(similar to the Penske/Donohue '69 Sunoco Camaro. The centres of the wheels would be painted dark charcoal with polished rims & it'll be slammed down to the ground. Either way the car's gonna be red :lol: :lol:

Either way this thing should have plenty of grunt (around 500+ hp & torque) & circuit racer handling. Whatcha all reckon, nice looking Z/28 or balls out racer?
Cheers..Nige
forgot you had an original Z. Maybe just do the stripe (have you thought about doing them in white instead ?), white roundals, superlites and a slammed stance. Either way you shouldn't do anything you can't return to stock. Just my 1p worth :)


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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:26 pm 
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Have you decided on Pro Tour or Trans Am for the look ? I got to admit although the PT look is awesome I got some early TA DVD's and I'm sold on that nostalgic race car look.
At the moment I'm leaning towards the Trans Am look like my white T/A (pics posted elsewhere). I just can't make up my mind :lol: I'm torn between keeping it looking like a nice clean Z/28, red with black stripes & just the Superlite wheels as a deviation from stock looking, OR,... going the T/A route with the period decals, race number 37, similar to those on my T/A, or possibly white roundals, with the name SoLoCo Camaro in gold leaf lettering (pinstriped in black) emblazoned down the rear 1/4 panels.(similar to the Penske/Donohue '69 Sunoco Camaro. The centres of the wheels would be painted dark charcoal with polished rims & it'll be slammed down to the ground. Either way the car's gonna be red :lol: :lol:

Either way this thing should have plenty of grunt (around 500+ hp & torque) & circuit racer handling. Whatcha all reckon, nice looking Z/28 or balls out racer?
Cheers..Nige
forgot you had an original Z. Maybe just do the stripe (have you thought about doing them in white instead ?), white roundals, superlites and a slammed stance. Either way you shouldn't do anything you can't return to stock. Just my 1p worth :)
Whatever I do to the car, it can always be put back to a stocker anyway, so I'm not concerned about that, it's just work to do it that's all :lol: ;) . The car's gonna be a keeper so I'm "building it "for me". I'm not over struck on white stripes as there's a lot of cars running them ( as if there's not a lot of red '69 Camaros out there anyway :lol: :lol: ), but thanks for the input, greatly appreciated ;). Either way it'll be red with the Superlites, just gonna have to make a decision...........Mmm... oh I dunno!! ;) cheers.....Nige

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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:53 pm 
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I know what you mean about the popularity of white stripes but I love the way Big Red (RIP) looked. Even the gold splits didn't look out of place.


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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:42 am 
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I know what you mean about the popularity of white stripes but I love the way Big Red (RIP) looked. Even the gold splits didn't look out of place.
Why the RIP, it's not dead is it :o ?? It was running only a few weeks ago at the Ultimate Street Car Challenge, here's a pic of it in action at that event. I love this car,.... 220 mph in a Camaro, who'd have thought it?? :lol: :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:26 am 
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:D thank goodness for that, I love this car too. I'd read on an American forum the car got totalled in the La Carrera Panamerica race a few years ago :?:

just goes to show, you shouldn't always believe what you read.


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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:59 am 
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:D thank goodness for that, I love this car too. I'd read on an American forum the car got totalled in the La Carrera Panamerica race a few years ago :?:

just goes to show, you shouldn't always believe what you read.
Yep, Big Red was totaled, but that was a few years ago. It's since been built bigger, better, faster ;) . here's a link to the Big Red web site loads of pics articles & a few videos too,..enjoy, cheers.....Nige

http://www.bigredcamaro.com/newsite/


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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:16 pm 
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It was the original Big Red that got totaled :)

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 Post subject: Re: inspirational cars
PostPosted:Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:04 pm 
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It was the original Big Red that got totaled :)
yeah, there's some very ugly pics of it totaled on their web site :o ;)

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