This makes us look bad! - Page 2

pikachuSC2 · 05-14-2005, 07:07 PM

awww see, now i feel bad. what a good point, everyone does have to start some where. not everyone can have some super flawless lovely satty right away. and i must admit the two bumpers had me thinking it was kitted. and actually i sort of admire that the guy actually TRIED.

like whoa, i feel bad

scottyr94 · 05-14-2005, 09:23 PM

I guess I don't really see any problem with it so long as it eventually gets completed. If you see the thing 6 months from now and looks exactly the same, then I would say something. You gotta make some progress on it. I see old cars and trucks and like some imports around here with half molded kits and primer grey paint jobs and my friends laugh at them, and all I see is a work in progress. Now if it never move along from that step, then I will make fun. There's an Accord in my town that is black and has had just a front bumper from from a kit on it thats been half green, half white for over 2 years. Only other thing he has is a can and altezzas, that is a car that has every reason to be laughed at.

my99sl1 · 05-16-2005, 10:41 PM

well sad part is that its not only the first time i have seen the car and the first time would have to be around 8-9 months ago and it hasnt changed

LilMunchkin325ic · 05-16-2005, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by my99sl1

well sad part is that its not only the first time i have seen the car and the first time would have to be around 8-9 months ago and it hasnt changed

I don't think that its sad at all, what if the individual doesn't have the money to do EVERYTHING at once, i'm sure they are doing what they can when they can, so big w00t if it looks the same from 9 months ago, not everyone has the money to modify an entire car in one shot - geesh

scottyr94 · 05-17-2005, 12:45 AM

Well I don't have nearly enough money myself to modify car all at one either. 8-9 months is a long time though, if I couldn't finish or make progress on something in that amount of time I wouldn't even start it. I would at least spray paint something to make it look like I was trying.

MySaturnYouNV · 05-17-2005, 12:50 AM

Psssh hes right, thats why people make fun of saturn owners. Even yestersday i saw a kid with a saturn... One head light pointed at about an 80 degree angle and one facing foward. The door was a different color then the rest of the car...everyone made fun of him...talkin about "saturns as a whole"

But hes right, if i saw a SUPRA going down the street that had 2 bumpers, diff color doors, spinner hubcaps and a huge wing, i would think he was retarded too...But saturns will always be easy targets with people riding around in crap like that,..especially trying to race.

PurdueGuy · 05-17-2005, 03:10 AM

I read somewhere (this forum or another one, I can't remember) where someone said that if you shouldn't put a kit on the car until you are ready to paint. I tend to agree with that (with exceptions of working to make it fit, etc).

I can see where someone has a daily that they don't care about the looks of to replace a panel with a non-matching one. It's an A-to-B car and they dont' care. But someone who's been molding bumpers together obviously doesn't fit in that category.

SkittleOnChrome · 05-17-2005, 01:54 PM

if you're doing THAT much work to a car, then you need to get a 2nd car. I've had 2 lil $500 cars that were beaters...nothin to gawk at; strictly a to-and-from car. I've driven around in my car when it was primered also...BUT, I was constantly making changes to mine...2 weeks hardly went by w/out somethin else being done to it, so 8-9 months? I can't see it. If you don't have all the money to finish, that's fine....but don't start until you have a considerable amount saved up. There's nothing wrong w/leaving the kit in your basement/garage until you have enough saved to get it done in one shot.

trick94sl2 · 05-18-2005, 03:52 AM

Looks like a steaming pile of feces