Appearance updates

Discussion on body issues/mods, appearance, interior/trim, and detailing (i.e. how to keep your car looking showroom new, or a reasonable facsimile thereof...).
YenkoCamaro427
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Re: Appearance updates

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Did you use overlays on the bowties?
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No Moa
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Re: Appearance updates

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Damn sharp!
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Re: Appearance updates

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Initially I used plasti-dip to paint the grill surround and trunk trim. Worked great on the trunk, but not the grill. Does not hold up well to rocks, bugs and scrubbing. I have since removed the dip and scuffed up the chrome with a 3M disc, then painted them a semi gloss black. Looks better to me and holds up better than the dip.

The 6.0L emblem is a custom emblem bought from Emblem Pros. They can do just about anything.

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1975 Pontiac Grand Am L77 - 14.82 @ 92.89
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Re: Appearance updates

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On the bowties I just painted the whole thing with plasti dip, than came back with an exacto knife and cut a line along the natural transition between the gold and chrome then peeled it back off the chrome leaving the black bowtie with chrome surround.

On my patrol car, I separated the chrome and gold parts of the bowtie, plasti dipped the gold black and chrome red then put them back together to make a black bowtie with red outline. Its looks awesome. Ill post a pic soon.
Garner Ames



1975 Pontiac Grand Am L77 - 14.82 @ 92.89
1991 Chevrolet C1500 L31 Vortec/5 Speed
2002 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 LM7
2014 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 L77 - 13.60 @ 105.87
2019 Chevrolet Express 3500 L96
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yargnits
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Re: Appearance updates

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I did these when I wrapped the door inserts. I thought I'd share them here. Yeah, the car is dirty...

I'd like to try having the a bright red gloss as an outline rather than the chrome. Remember the old "Beware of the guy with the red bow tie" ad campaign? I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
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