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griffo20022
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by griffo20022 » 22 Mar 2008 11:27 am
Do the photoshop! Looks sooooooooo badass!!! If you don't do it i'm eventually going to do it lol! Just mount the indicators behind the grill theres tons of space!!!
Looks like a proper euro brum!
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MJ
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by MJ » 22 Mar 2008 02:59 pm
Must admit, I'm not keen on indicators behind the grill, they're too near the middle of the car. I know it's legal, but I really dislike indicators inside of headlights - it looks cross eyed, and it's confusing as to which way it's indicating.
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Cloud
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by Cloud » 22 Mar 2008 04:04 pm
lol yeah like a 206...looks abit funny when they blink away in the middle.
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MJ
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by MJ » 22 Mar 2008 05:21 pm
I think I'm a careful pedestrian, but I've accidentally stepped out in front of a few cars because of that, assuming they were turning the other way and had to jump back quick!
You see an indicator on the right of a headlight and assume it's turning right, or on the left and it's turning left... Very dangerous and misleading at busy junctions, particularity if vision is obscured and you can only see the one headlight and indicator...
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by SteveP » 22 Mar 2008 06:25 pm
Hmm not overly sure on the bumper, it's a bit rounded for the rest of the car
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Cloud
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by Cloud » 22 Mar 2008 11:26 pm
Lol, got bored again, just a quick one...perspective is wrong and the scaling is probably WAY off, but it does suit it.Now...What bumper should we stick on there?
(Picture from the web, no idea whos it is, if you know ill puts a thanks yous in it.)
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griffo20022
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by griffo20022 » 23 Mar 2008 01:26 am
Nah, not too keen on the ranger front, defo defo love the no indicators though
Hopefully when I tint out my indicators it'll be nice n dark to match the bodywork n look like they've been taken out anyway yay lol!
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MJ
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by MJ » 23 Mar 2008 03:54 am
I'm liking the Landy look
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by jtbo » 23 Mar 2008 08:32 am
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by MJ » 23 Mar 2008 10:53 am
I tried a photoshop with RR lights, but it turned into the ugliest 300 ever
Anyway, I ended up messing around and came up with this...
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by Cloud » 23 Mar 2008 10:59 am
Oh, I like that...I wouldn't mind something like that in 2 tone black and white
wonder what that would look like without the indicators aswell
Whats the bumper from?
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by jtbo » 23 Mar 2008 12:15 pm
MJ, loose chrome strip from bumper and paint top of bumper to body colour, could be bit refined look? Or then not, my eye is sometimes bit odd
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by Tourinki » 23 Mar 2008 01:31 pm
Cloud wrote:
Blimey. I had to double check what i have been drinking and after that take a another look of the pic. But it looks odd but not so bad.
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by Chris_C » 23 Mar 2008 06:18 pm
I love the rangey front lights
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by classicswede » 25 Mar 2008 10:42 pm
Personaly I don't like the range rover front but it would not be good if we were all the same.
The idea of removing the indicators and making the front end like a chevette. I would put the indicators in the headlamp and repeater in the wing frenched in.