I must send Pat some pictures of the car like that , but not until his health is a bit better , probably finish the old boy off lol,
but hey , its saved it from the crusher so I aint gonna knock it

looks a whole lot better now ive lowered it (and removed towbar, siide mouldings, etc), but no pics yet.

but paint totally transforms any car.

my S13 is matt black, this is going to be satin, so shinier.

i like matt paints, and besides, im better at painting with them, lol.

some very dusty (so far less black than it really is) pics of my S13...





but like said, the car is rusty as fook and fit for the scrapper, the old guy was lucky he sold it when he did.
its purely my usual stupidity that ive decided to make a cool car out of it....

While I like the current colour, I think the Satin black might just work, actually. Isn't the tiny-tyres-on-13s look getting a bit played out now? I guess 10" wide rims are a fresh take on it

cheers

James

Stavros wrote:

I've always liked matt black on a car, as long as it's not been done with a painbrush.

Not so sure about that chavved up Bentley though!

At least S13 has no hugely oversized wheels

For such race car such colour seem to be working as it works for that Elite that was in video in earlier page.

You need to change appearance of 300 quite a bit to get black really work, and not just to sides but front and back, angles are so wrong for aggressive look in standard form that putting tape to lamps is not going to be enough, imo

one thing ive always learnt over the years with cars is, when it comes down to matters of taste, to do exactly the opposite of what the general concensus on a car forum is

always seems to work flawlessly

Stavros wrote:one thing ive always learnt over the years with cars is, when it comes down to matters of taste, to do exactly the opposite of what the general concensus on a car forum is

always seems to work flawlessly

I believe that is what these people where thinking too, excepted they missed that good taste completely
http://www.topgear.com/content/timetobu ... ages/0525/

Stavros wrote:one thing ive always learnt over the years with cars is, when it comes down to matters of taste, to do exactly the opposite of what the general concensus on a car forum is

always seems to work flawlessly

Yeah, unless the car in question looks like this:



Absolutely f*****g hideous

But add bad 4wd system to that and we have modern SUV thing

I believe that the above 3 door is currently on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Custom-Volvo ... dZViewItem

Clare

It has gone unsold with the reserve not met.

Ive been watching for the last few days

That's pretty pimp when you see all the pics! It looks a bit odd with the big alloys and stock ride height, but once lowered, I reckon that'd look tidy.

cheers

James

Well its got 4 days and 23 hours to go!!!

The other half suggested that buying it and putting some standard wheels on it and sell the alloys to cover the cost!

Well if we haven't got space for all the bikes he wants there is definately not enough space for the volvo?

Clare

Clare wrote:The other half suggested that buying it and putting some standard wheels on it and sell the alloys to cover the cost!

Two issues here.

Firstly those wheels arnt worth bugger all anyhow.

Secondly the car is being aucitioned without the wheels included.

Why you should put 17's under your 300?