Shadow_D
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I guess I should show everyone the car I have in my sig LOL
I bought a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am almost a year and a half ago and have been working on it a lot lately.
The day I bought it...
I've been adding things to it over the last year to bring it to where it is now...
The first thing I did to the car after I bought it was tint the windows. After that I bought a custom overlay for the 3rd brake light...
After that I added the "eye brow" to the windshield then black racing stripes on the fenders and installed black reflective inserts for the "PONTIAC" labels in the back bumper as well as the front plate filler. Next I got reflective overlays for all the badges on the car.
I then decided it was time to make some big changes to the car. I bought an Andy's Autosports fiberglass nose, "War bird" hood scoop and a donor hood. The nose and the hood took a lot of work to get them to where I wanted them. The nose had 4 openings that were a looks kind of thing that I didn't like plus one was broken. I learned quickly how to work with fiberglass and other fillers to "shave" the openings. As I was going along, some members of the Grand Am Owners Club (another forum I'm a member of) suggested I "shave the plate area as well to give it a "finished" look. so I did that as well... Here is a picture of how the nose looked stock.
Looking at the other pic above you can see the difference.
Next big project I took on was mounting and forming the "war birds" on the donor hood. this was a trick due to the fact I had nothing to measure from, i.e. nothing was square. I finally had to eyeball the scoop and tape it to the hood then I could drill the mounting points. I used rivets and panel adhesive, fiberglass, bondo hair, bondo then finishing bondo to form the scoops to the hood. I did all of this in a week :huh: .
This project will be finished this winter. I worked as hard as I could to have this done to this point for the annual GAOC Meet in Albany, NY back in August. This meet starts Thursday evening and goes to Sunday morning, I was bolting the hood and nose to the car that Thursday night and was ready for our car show the next morning.
I will update this page with new pictures after I finish the body kit and paint it.
Thats all for now...........
I bought a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am almost a year and a half ago and have been working on it a lot lately.
The day I bought it...
I've been adding things to it over the last year to bring it to where it is now...
The first thing I did to the car after I bought it was tint the windows. After that I bought a custom overlay for the 3rd brake light...
After that I added the "eye brow" to the windshield then black racing stripes on the fenders and installed black reflective inserts for the "PONTIAC" labels in the back bumper as well as the front plate filler. Next I got reflective overlays for all the badges on the car.
I then decided it was time to make some big changes to the car. I bought an Andy's Autosports fiberglass nose, "War bird" hood scoop and a donor hood. The nose and the hood took a lot of work to get them to where I wanted them. The nose had 4 openings that were a looks kind of thing that I didn't like plus one was broken. I learned quickly how to work with fiberglass and other fillers to "shave" the openings. As I was going along, some members of the Grand Am Owners Club (another forum I'm a member of) suggested I "shave the plate area as well to give it a "finished" look. so I did that as well... Here is a picture of how the nose looked stock.
Looking at the other pic above you can see the difference.
Next big project I took on was mounting and forming the "war birds" on the donor hood. this was a trick due to the fact I had nothing to measure from, i.e. nothing was square. I finally had to eyeball the scoop and tape it to the hood then I could drill the mounting points. I used rivets and panel adhesive, fiberglass, bondo hair, bondo then finishing bondo to form the scoops to the hood. I did all of this in a week :huh: .
This project will be finished this winter. I worked as hard as I could to have this done to this point for the annual GAOC Meet in Albany, NY back in August. This meet starts Thursday evening and goes to Sunday morning, I was bolting the hood and nose to the car that Thursday night and was ready for our car show the next morning.
I will update this page with new pictures after I finish the body kit and paint it.
Thats all for now...........
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