The Guz Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Well my Camaro is all done. I have been making some slight changes to the appearance. A little background. I bought this car about 10 years ago. I am the second owner. The previous owner was a car collector that passed away. This car went to auction where another guy bought it. I bought it from that guy. At the time the odomoeter read 3K miles. It is currently sitting at 14K miles. I only drive it on the weekends. This is the list of things that I have recently done: -Installed a new vinyl hood scoop to replace the old one that had seen better days -Installed a set of 35th anniversary replica wheels -The 35th anniversary center caps have been discontinued for sometime now so I found some silver ones that I painted black. Followed that up with a set of OEM sized vinyl bowtie emblems. Finished everything off with clear coat which was wet sanded and compounded/polished out. -Compounded the car with a non Adam's compound and microfiber pads. Foam pads would not make a dent with the hard clear on this car -Polished it out with a non Adam's polish -Sealed with Adam's New Liquid Paint Sealant - about 2-3 weeks ago In the meantime I waterless washed it until I got my other Adam's products (brilliant glaze, buttery and Americana) This past Friday, 3/28 I applied a coat of brilliant glaze over the car and followed that up with buttery. I used Americana on the black sail panel. Buttery on the rest of the car. I have to say brilliant glaze works great. Really brought out the shine even though the car is white. Buttery smells good. Easy on and off. Americana was also easy on and off. On to the photos. A couple before with the previous wheels: These were taken with my phone. Reflection while it sits in the garage. Another reflection off the sail panel. You can see the garage door. This has Liquid paint sealant, Brilliant Glaze and Americana. I was working on the daily and took this reflection shot off the rear fender. It has Liquid paint selant, brilliant glaze and buttery. Pulled it out of the garage. For those that are curious the car has the following mods: SLP Cold Air Intake SLP SS front grille Black headlights Custom SS front emblem Magnaflow cat back exhaust that was later converted to the center mount style set up SLP rear center exhaust valence Full audio system Full hotchkis suspension (lowering springs, trailing arms, front and rear sway bars, front strut bar) Koni adjustable shocks 35th anniversary replica wheels Black painted calipers with Camaro vinyl Tinted windows Future mods: Computer tune Black euro corner lights. This is still up in the air. I do like the look of the factory yellow corners. Feets31, Redbeard and PaintTech 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fear Ls1 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 As a fellow 4th Gen F-Body owner, I love that car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHL88 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Beautiful car! Its nice to know some people still take good care of their 4th gens. All the ones I see around here now are people driving them in town with dented body panels, horrible paint, mis aligned rockers etc. Either that or no taste at all. Numbr3t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Nice .........she looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holder Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Love it. Beautiful car! Its nice to know some people still take good care of their 4th gens. All the ones I see around here now are people driving them in town with dented body panels, horrible paint, mis aligned rockers etc. Either that or no taste at all. All the nice ones around here have 20k miles on them and have been stored since 2002. Very rare to see a nice one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen9Rolla Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Great car, must be a joy to drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatluver Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Very nice. Black '02 TA WS.6 car here. Gearing up to get mine shining as well. PaintTech 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2quikta Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Very nice! Good to see it doesn't have any bubbling on the sail panel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMMJAY Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Not of fan of f-bodys, but yours looks good but whys it so damn long and stretched? lol keep up the good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyfox Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I have to echo what has already been said here and commend you on such a beautiful 4th GEN. Good to see there are still some nice ones out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GXPaycheck Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Very nice! I would like to have one for track days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 As a fellow 4th Gen F-Body owner, I love that car! Thanks. I have liked the 4th gen since I first saw them. Beautiful car! Its nice to know some people still take good care of their 4th gens. All the ones I see around here now are people driving them in town with dented body panels, horrible paint, mis aligned rockers etc. Either that or no taste at all. Thanks. I see many around here that have seen better days. I actually had someone pull up to me in another 4th gen Camaro complimenting the look of mine. Nice .........she looks good! Thanks. Looks better than when I first got it. Love it. All the nice ones around here have 20k miles on them and have been stored since 2002. Very rare to see a nice one out. Thanks. I drive it as much as I can. The good thing is that it is always sunny here in Southern California so it gives me the opportunity to drive it more. Great car, must be a joy to drive Thanks. I do enjoy driving it. Very nice. Black '02 TA WS.6 car here. Gearing up to get mine shining as well. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing yours all cleaned up. Very nice! Good to see it doesn't have any bubbling on the sail panel! Thanks. It is starting to bubble. There are a few on both sides near the fenders. It's not as bad as my dad's 02 Z28 that has a hard top on it. He's going to need it replaced sometime down the line. Not of fan of f-bodys, but yours looks good but whys it so damn long and stretched? lol keep up the good work Thanks. lol the photo might be deceiving. I will tell you this, from inside the car the front end looks very long. I have to echo what has already been said here and commend you on such a beautiful 4th GEN. Good to see there are still some nice ones out there! Thanks. Very nice! I would like to have one for track days. Thanks. The good thing is that these can be made fast for cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 A couple more photos. These are high res photos from my good camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylander Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Very nice! That's got to be about as perfect as an F-body can be found these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHL88 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Noticed your CME. Im guessing a factory SLP car OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 Very nice! That's got to be about as perfect as an F-body can be found these days. Thanks. Noticed your CME. Im guessing a factory SLP car OP? Some SLP's came equipped with the 345+ HP package which included CME and the intake. Mine did not come with either. What I did is that I bought the rear valance from SLP when they discontinued them. I was lucky enough to buy the valence for $99. The tips and bends were already gone by the time I bought the valence. I ended up finding a guy on ebay who sold custom CME tips which is what I have on their currently. In the meantime I had a magnaflow cat back installed on the car and I converted that to CME by having custom bends made at an exhaust shop once I got the valence painted and installed. Here's what it looked like a few years ago with the magnaflow catback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHL88 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I had the same cannon tip magnaflows on my 98 Z lol. Nonetheless, CME's are awesome IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egott_91 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Nice! Just curious why you didn't use Americana on the entire car? And CME is the ONLY way to go on these cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 I had the same cannon tip magnaflows on my 98 Z lol. Nonetheless, CME's are awesome IMO. I agree. The rear looks complete with the CME. Nice! Just curious why you didn't use Americana on the entire car? And CME is the ONLY way to go on these cars. Thanks. No real reason. I was just playing around with buttery and Americana. The next time I will use Americana. Actually I'll be using Americana on my dad's 02 Z28 to show off his navy blue color. It will be an early birthday gift to him. blcksilv08 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNader07 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Very nicely done! The best one of those I have ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted April 1, 2014 Author Share Posted April 1, 2014 Very nicely done! The best one of those I have ever seen Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaintTech Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Good looking 4G. Before I bought the charger last week I was looking at 2 '02's, 1 SS Convert... 17k mi... Was bright red (not a fan of red) and the other was a blue coupe. Low miles but some db had it and 'blinged' it out. Was asking $10k for the convertible and $14k (woah!) for the blue coupe. After finding a low mileage 04 comm edition vette (17k) and my inspection of it found evidence of nitrous being used, I decided to get a new model so I would avoid other peoples modification mistakes. That is a clean, well done 'Maro. Props for not making it a daily driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13dgmwrx Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Cars look good brother... The gtp still looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 Thanks. I do my best to have both of my cars looking great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now