To re-apholster, I'd say about $200 per seat (left, right, rear bench) and about $150 for carpet and same for headliner, plus shipping, taxes, duties if any... sounds about right.85Supreme said:
Muscle, donk or lowered. Whats your choice
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I was gonna say that sounds really reasonable, I looked at prices for seat covers for G body cars, :shock:, needless to say but my intereior stil doesn't match, lol.
lookin at alot of lowrider styles i think they are ALMOST the nicest looking done up gbodies, i stil prefer the muscl look but for admireing the low riders are verry nice especially all the detail and time nd effort put into them
I like the stock look with the performance and handling hidden.
My car is riding on spoke caps with all the trim hiding a 403. Only way I'm getting rid of the spoke caps are for gnx/gta 16" wheels, otherwise 15" caps on steelies here I come.
Then I want a little 1" or so drop and a full suspension rebuild done with parts to make the car handle better than a vette.
Here's a pic of what it looks like now.
I've got all the trim, just gotta put it on. Gonna do a complete restoration on the outside to look showroom new. The tires will probably be Firestone F380's (only whitewall performance tire I know of).
Want to get a culmination of parts from many places for the suspension. Tubular upper and lower front and rear control arms, bigger tubular sway bars, higher rate springs front and back, dropped 1-1.5" (maybe spindle drop up front to keep the alignment right), polyurethane bushings, and anything else I can think of and afford at the time.
It currently is powered by a mild 403 with 9.1:1 compression, th350, and 2.14's in the stock rear.
I want 3.08-3.73 gears posi in either an 8.5" or built 7.5" rear.
Then comes a 4 or 5 speed manual swap (haven't decided yet) and a new set of ported #5-7a heads and a compression bump up to 9.8:1 or so and a nice new lunati cam. 12's would be nice.
Oh baby, thatsa what I like.
My car is riding on spoke caps with all the trim hiding a 403. Only way I'm getting rid of the spoke caps are for gnx/gta 16" wheels, otherwise 15" caps on steelies here I come.
Then I want a little 1" or so drop and a full suspension rebuild done with parts to make the car handle better than a vette.
Here's a pic of what it looks like now.
I've got all the trim, just gotta put it on. Gonna do a complete restoration on the outside to look showroom new. The tires will probably be Firestone F380's (only whitewall performance tire I know of).
Want to get a culmination of parts from many places for the suspension. Tubular upper and lower front and rear control arms, bigger tubular sway bars, higher rate springs front and back, dropped 1-1.5" (maybe spindle drop up front to keep the alignment right), polyurethane bushings, and anything else I can think of and afford at the time.
It currently is powered by a mild 403 with 9.1:1 compression, th350, and 2.14's in the stock rear.
I want 3.08-3.73 gears posi in either an 8.5" or built 7.5" rear.
Then comes a 4 or 5 speed manual swap (haven't decided yet) and a new set of ported #5-7a heads and a compression bump up to 9.8:1 or so and a nice new lunati cam. 12's would be nice.
Oh baby, thatsa what I like.
All original...right down to the wire hubcaps and whitewall tires. Basically exactly like my car is now. Except I'm getting the windows tinted haha.
I take back that 1200 cost, it was more in the 800-900 range. It was totally worth the cost as all the pieces came from Legendary and their products are top quality! Look at my pics, no way in hell I'm re-using the stock seat cover lol unless i pulled a joe dirt and use some duck tape
axisg said:Qdub24 said:
meh ! one persons "boring" is another persons "classic".
I have seen a lot of car fads come and go. Early 80's Candy Paint with huge metal flakes, late 90's ricers with huge wings on the back, 70's drag race wannabe's with rear ends jacked up to the sky on shackles to fit huge tires with little skinnies up front, everything from sunroofs to curb feelers.
All of them make me appreciate a "clean" & "stock" looking car. Would you rather own the car from Corvette Summer or an all orig '78 Corvette. The answer is pretty clear to me, all-orig "looking" to overcome the obvious faults in power and braking when new.
Clip from Corvette Summer below
That thing is hideous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_yxNf1Cxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CM3nwC0 ... re=related
cdg1984 said:
Amen. Nothing wrong with adding a couple little things here and there, but the stock look is timeless. At least until you get to the 90s, but that's a whole other mess...
For me, it’s really hard to choose just one but I’d say my overall pick is for the sleeper; stock look but with “goodies” hidden underneath, with only those in the know realizing what the vehicle really is. Not sure if the yuppie term “restification” fits. I like them clean, understated, not a lot of added on chrome this, billet that, mismatched parts , like those stick-on portholes and spinner hub-caps… But I have come across a couple of large-wheeled g-body Regals and Cutlasses that I like, like deezy’s and it looks like Qdub’s is coming along. And like them I don’t really go for calling a car a Donk (or Box or Bubble for that matter) simply because it has 20” or larger wheels on it. Hell, I remember when folks were jacking these cars up when 15” wheels were an upgrade / stock, looked like sheeot!!!
For me a slightly lowered g-body looks good, not so much a low-rider (my favs are the 61-64 Impalas so I’m way biased) but at the same time kind of like a Regal or Cutlass with 100 spoke Ds (Daytons). As long as the pieces “flow” together & not look like they’re just thrown on I’m ok with it. Things I really don’t like, and no offense 454, are vehicles with overly done bodywork, flares, wings / spoilers, wheels that stick way out from the fenders. I think my main reason for this, and it actually help get me return from the dark side of the force, is I spent a time working on / running pocket-rockets and kats / kittens would do this stuff WRONG. Parts wouldn’t fit, most were hack-jobs at best, they never painted these parts, and most kept the stock wheels because they didn’t save money to complete the mods they way they should. So the cars ended up looking like Aunt Esther instead of “Fast & Furious” good-looking (and even then most are gaudy as hell). Was never really a Pro-Street fan mainly because I remember a lot of those cars “looked” the part but couldn’t back it up. Plus they were a b*tch to drive on the street, grumpy, couldn’t handle. Pro-Touring is ok but does darn near every car HAVE to either be totally blacked out, or run the same blacked-out wheels?
But in the end build it the way you like and take the compliments for what they are and brush off the insults.
For me a slightly lowered g-body looks good, not so much a low-rider (my favs are the 61-64 Impalas so I’m way biased) but at the same time kind of like a Regal or Cutlass with 100 spoke Ds (Daytons). As long as the pieces “flow” together & not look like they’re just thrown on I’m ok with it. Things I really don’t like, and no offense 454, are vehicles with overly done bodywork, flares, wings / spoilers, wheels that stick way out from the fenders. I think my main reason for this, and it actually help get me return from the dark side of the force, is I spent a time working on / running pocket-rockets and kats / kittens would do this stuff WRONG. Parts wouldn’t fit, most were hack-jobs at best, they never painted these parts, and most kept the stock wheels because they didn’t save money to complete the mods they way they should. So the cars ended up looking like Aunt Esther instead of “Fast & Furious” good-looking (and even then most are gaudy as hell). Was never really a Pro-Street fan mainly because I remember a lot of those cars “looked” the part but couldn’t back it up. Plus they were a b*tch to drive on the street, grumpy, couldn’t handle. Pro-Touring is ok but does darn near every car HAVE to either be totally blacked out, or run the same blacked-out wheels?
But in the end build it the way you like and take the compliments for what they are and brush off the insults.
I prefer muscle or sleeper in appearance. Some of the body kits that are sold by Lauren Engineering don't appeal to me. I really dislike donks. I think they are ridiculous. Not even a good paint job makes them look good, IMO. Lowriders can be cool or ridiculous looking. I prefer a normal paint job as opposed to graphics and multi-tones (2 tone is okay). I like the chrome 100-spokes with white walls, but dislike gold spokes. Hydraulics (hoppers) seem like a waste to me.
But that's just my opinion.
But that's just my opinion.
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