well happy holidays to everyone! hope everyone has a wonderful time with there family and loved ones. but on the side not. i had a great christmas this year, not only getting to be with my whole family, but getting a few things.

ipod touch. projectors, new fogs, hid kits for heads and fogs, overlays, inlays, sunpro trans temp, oil guage, guage bezel, new grilles, mounting brackets, alot of clothes, and a couple other car things and i few other detailing things. but what was the best was giving my GF of 3 1/2 years a promise ring, she has been the most faithful, wonderful, understandable girl out there. and i love the fact that she loves cars just as much as me.

Happy holidays to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!

lucky guy.

lets see some pics of the new paint job. I want to see how the car looks with door handles but no door ding protectors.

man ide love to see the paint too. lol! but i had to fix the motor first, its done and the final coats of paint are going on friday and he said i could come get it monday god i cant wait!

Ahh. Cause I am getting paint this spring/summer and am thinking about maybe removing the door ding protectors.

Here. You'll have to scroll down. Its also de-ribbed.

http://www.gpona.com/forums/major-bodywork-and-customization-final-pics-pg-6-t8582s125.html

i know i cant wait man. lol. the paint i choose looks awesome. its black metallic. i just went ahead and painted the lower fiascas black. then if later on i can paint em silver or what ever color i wish. lol.

mmm, not feelin it. Or the de-rib.

Also don't like how he cut the front bumper fascia.

To each their own, but I think I will stick with my door dingers.

i love the look smooth doors.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/show_image.pl?bg=000000&image=http://memimage.cardomain.com/member_images/2/web/2486000-2486999/2486734_34_full.jpg

That tint strip is rediclous on that car...Looks almost retarded how low it is.

Yeah, that is Blown 2000 GTP or something. His car is sick. I love it.

I just don't like the look of no door ding protectors AND still having door handles. It's either all or none.

I was same boat as you r.s.hutchinson. Next year, I will bring my car to Flip's place for major body repair.

1. Fix all scratches
2. Install roof rail
3. Install lower door molding and side skirt
4. Install SD front air dam
5. Shave keyhole trunk (I want to leave it alone but I'm tired of leaking inside my trunk lid during raining. No matter how much they seal the spoiler like 5 times. Same thing happened. It gotta be keyhole bad seal. When I open it and the water pour into trunk mat. If it is shave then I don't see any water again then it will be worth it.)
6. remove the door ding protectors (but I think I will cancel that)
7 re-dibbed (I will cancel that too because I like my stock bumpers look better than smooth bumpers.)

When I saw his red car at GPONA. It looks awesome but I'm not feeling at all. Shave door ding and re-dibbed is perfect for him for "smooth look". I would leave it alone for my car.

Blue car with tint windshield. Wow, that's stupid. How hell can you drive that in night? That's dangerous. He would get easy bust by police because it is easy to notice for "half tint and half stock windshield.

I'd like to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas. I thank all of you who have been there for me when I was in desperate need for help and had to come here. Always seemed to find the answer in the end and its been a good year. Hoping 2009 will be just as good and will get just as much help from all of you:D

Merry Christmas/Happy holidays to everyone, thanks for all of the advice. Before I found this site I knew my car had a 3.8 liter supercharged engine, it was black, and i had bose speakers. That was about it. Now, I can talk to people about knock retard, the reasons for getting a downpipe (which i will hopefully be getting this year), and why i'm not just throwing on 3 inch pulley without other modifications. I've learned a ton about these cars so far, and I hope to continue learning more and appreciating what i have (a clean black gtp with well less than 100K that hasn't been beat on in the chicago area). Thanks again, hope everyone is having a great holiday season.