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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 09:53 PM
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i am considering completly personalizing my vette kind of in an extreme way. i want to clean or replace every little piece of my car. I am planning on this taking several years to complete. The vision i have is for the car to be Admiral blue(ive almost finished that), with blue seats and carpet with black plastic where it belongs. the interior is done, but i want to put in new plastic. the hard part is that i am planing on doing all of the mechanicals with a frame off resto. i also want my valve covers, engine parts, steering rack, shocks, and a lot of other things that i find while im at it painted blue.

my ? is, is that too much blue?
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Originally Posted by vancityguy
i think it may be a bit too much blue i had a similar idea with red but quickly realized an equal balance of colors is probably a better route to go
thats what i was thinking, but i kind of hoped tha chrome rim's, lettering on the windshield, and some engine parts would balence it out
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If you have Photoshop, or some similar program, you could take pictures of the your car and play around with it to give you some ideas of how it would look.

I have a trans am that is badly rusted and I photoshopped it to see If I wanted to restore it to it's original color or change it.

Decided neither, since I got my 84 Vette.

Trans Ams for sale. Vette stays!
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Old Nov 6, 2006 | 11:27 AM
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Maybe Agent 86 can give you some perspective on really pushing a certain color...
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