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[Rat Kulture]

Hey Mud! Had a great time that day. Glad you made it home safe. Thanks for the nice words, I will post more pics when I can take it out of the garage. For now maybe I can get some interior and engine shots.

And talk about a neat car- Real deal comes to mind mud on your 68. Anyway, dont know what to do with myself since the show season ended!

Hope to post some more pics soon and did anybody catch the all steel RS nose?

Seasons Greetings to all

Rich

[mudjnky]

Yes, it turned out to be a really nice day. Hopefully we'll make it back up there to that cafe again, sorry, don't remember the name.

Parked for the winter, you could always get those stripes painted on...

[Rat Kulture]

That would be the Whiskey, in Lyndhurst. Always a good time there.

Since you mentioned the stripe, and nobody else asked, i will just say that in addition to other mods that I made solely because Joel Rosen came out with a modern day version of his 69, well then I thought if its good enough for him then its good enough for me. And that is to build a modern day version of what a 71 might be.

So I went with the Baer brakes, at all four corners, which necessitated the use of a 17" rim. Never considered billet but liked the 17" cragars, they are really opened up and with the small offset are still ol skool but moderen looking.

That set the tone for the rest of the car, of which I made many modifications.

But the side and trunk stripe was deleted for 2 reasons- First because i talked to "gary the Stripe" the man who i understood painted all those Motion cars. He told me there was no "right" way, that some were thick, some were thin, some were dual and some were delete.

So i took that info and thought about it for when the time came to stripe.

First wanted white- but thought with a black interior, car would look too cluttered

But when i saw my car in the booth, http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72020 I thought there was no way i was covering up any part of that paint, especially in the sunshine. But it was in there, and i had to make a decision, so I opted for a gloss black stripe on the L88 hood and a rear panel backout treatmant cause it was an SS car.

You can also see in the pics my took all winter to build dash, all the moon gauges were put in the highly dremeled, sabresawed, aluminum and epoxy gussed original pod. I sent the bezel out to be chromed, and the lighting on the little gauges are red. All the gauges are suspended in rubber mounts to eliminate vibration.

So thats the stripe story.

Changing gears here, there was a post about Chucks day 2 tunnel rammed camaro and his thinking on putting Gasser spoked rims on it.

While I agree they dont have a place on a motion tribute Camaro, here is what they look like on a Rat Rod canmaro, this is my 71 that I built on a budget while waiting for and spending big bucks on my 72.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Speedshiftcrunch/Camaro1971

Anyway, again, thanks for letting me share my cars