Before/After pics

[Blackened300a]

First week I got the car. Tint was the only thing I did to the outside and a PHP intake under the hood. These was taken in April of 2005.







Currently I have the Mach1 chin spoiler, rear deck spoiler, S55 taillights, SS inserts, and red calipers on the outside, and a polished upper intake with billet etched coil covers.

[gadget73]

Colin: wash your ass, your seat is dirty Not that I can talk, I got buckets of black sludge out of my little green clean machine when I did my seats in the truck.


Before, this was about 2 weeks after I got it:






Now


the headliner and the B pillar trim has been replaced since this pic was taken

There is an insert in here now

[marquisman]

this is when i picked it up at the car lot




then when i put it together

[Mr. Land Yacht]

sorry gadget
it's prolyl since I wear dark pants and got dark jackets...that's prolly has something to do with it...and I haven't shampooed that car ever...I really should.

nice pics Blackened300a.
hmm...I know I have seen one of those pics in a video before...I'm sure of it...it was in black/white tho...aha! I knew it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WMTIABf02Y

22 seconds in

oh, Marquisman....great Mark VI...love that rear angle shot...those tips look grreat!

[1987cp]

The day I brought her home.....
First good detailing....
As pictured in my Fall clean up thread........

WOW, that's clean. Don't think I'd actually seen those shots before. Nice detailing work!!

[1987cp]

Bone stock in 1998-1999:



In 2001, with painted stock wheels, billboards, driving lights, and no tailpipe, badges, stripes, or side moulding:



In 2002 with US Wheel 75 Series and a trailer attached:



And finally, recent shots from the same set as the current PoTM photos. I really wouldn't have minded getting a really nice set of steel wheels, but these old Westerns kind of crossed my path and for $175 including a set of Comp T/As I didn't need, they were awfully hard to pass up!

[torquelover]

I wonder how we grew up in the same area and both cruised in uncommon Panthers at the same time in the same small town, yet never ran across one another? Mine was parked at the old Spot-Not car wash on Calumet a lot.

[1987cp]

Dunno ... of course, I only had this car in that area full-time from Nov. '97 to Sept. '98, and I didn't really go cruising much... pretty much drove it to school and work, and that was about it. Rest of the time it was in my mom's garage on Parke Street in Lake Station. It's remotely possible I noticed your car back then but don't remember now; boxes were a lot more common ten years ago!

[Mr. Land Yacht]

great pics Mike...sure looks nice and mean now...but I sorta liked the chrome wheels and RWL tires more. for obvious reasons.

[1987cp]

Yeah. Oh well, maybe one day I'll have the cash for an extra set of wheels. Maybe an argent-painted Chrysler cop wheel, or a higher-quality chrome one (whenever you finally see the car, remind me to show you the nasty rust on the spare wheel!). But I did get a lot of compliments on the wagonspokes when they first went on. In the meantime, these alloys won't RUST!

[88Vic]

I think a set of RWL tires on the wheels you got on the wagon now would look great.

And if Marquisman is reading this, those a real wire wheels right? If so, what size are they?

[1987cp]

I think a set of RWL tires on the wheels you got on the wagon now would look great.

Yeah, I've been thinking that too. I had these Avid S/Ts mounted with the OWL side in, but that was before I realized the blackwall side has this postmodern swoopy-patterened appearance. If I ever buy one of those home tire mounting machines I might switch them around, but I can't see paying 40 or 50 dollars to do it.

[Mr. Land Yacht]

I wonder how some RWL tires would look on those turbines of yours...hmmm...*scratches chin*

[1987cp]

Why, you know someone with a tire machine I can use? :p

[Mr. Land Yacht]

not really.
well..actually...there is a CVNer I know...but I havent talked to him in a while.