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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 08:26 PM
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 08:36 PM
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This is an awesome shot. Did you take this picture?
Along with a good paint job award, you may win one for creative photography too.
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 09:45 PM
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Growing up in the mid eighties, my dad had a jet black 1977 Thunderbird ........we used to look at ourselves in the side of it and we looked about three feet shorter and twice as wide....

Kind of a "funhouse" mirror effect


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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 09:52 PM
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i'd like to see the whole car.
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 10:40 PM
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This is an awesome shot. Did you take this picture?
Along with a good paint job award, you may win one for creative photography too.
I took the pic., but someone else owend the car. It was taken off the side of an older mustang that I see at local car shows. It has the smoothest paint I have ever seen, but I don't think most people appreciate it as much as I do. that picture was also taken with a flash and still no marks showed. I took a simular pic off the side of an old black chevy at the same car show, but you can see marks that I could not see when I was there. I will post that pic tonight.
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 10:53 PM
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Talk about a mirror finish! I'd never have guessed this was a black paint job. Amazing!
Great photo.
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A perfect example of the difference between a $50 paint job and a $10,000 one.
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 11:05 PM
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This a full pics of the mustang


And this is from the older chevy (I thought it was perfect paint, but)
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Originally Posted by Tall Boy
This a full pics of the mustang


And this is from the older chevy (I thought it was perfect paint, but)
Close enough (perfect) for me...
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Originally Posted by Tall Boy
Nice Paint
Looks like chrome!!! Nice piant indeed. Did you ask the owner who did it? I would have to agree that the second one you posted isnt like the first but still amazing paint also. Thanks for the pics!
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I really think a moderator should put a stop to this vulgar photography! Does no one see the obvious **** on your shirt. My God people what is this world coming to!
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I really think a moderator should put a stop to this vulgar photography! Does no one see the obvious **** on your shirt. My God people what is this world coming to!
I thought the internet was made to find and post ****!! We must save the ****!
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A perfect example of the difference between a $50 paint job and a $10,000 one.
Let's see the Rustoleum roller boys try that
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Are you trying to say that this wasnt done with a couple of cans of clear, out in a Wall Mart parking lot? lol , great pic, great paint job
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Originally Posted by yellow 72
Let's see the Rustoleum roller boys try that
Does clear work on rustoleum ??
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Originally Posted by James.70
Looks like chrome!!! Nice piant indeed. Did you ask the owner who did it? I would have to agree that the second one you posted isnt like the first but still amazing paint also. Thanks for the pics!
The owner painted it, I think he said he paints car for a living, he spent 3 months on the prep.
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The owner painted it, I think he said he paints car for a living, he spent 3 months on the prep.
3 months prep and it shows

BTW the C on your ball cap is backwards.
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