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Derek! I see you found us.
Glad to have you over and always a pleasure to work on a non-W body. Right until you reminded me about that bolt hitting the body where the Bonneville can pull right out.
Odd that you didn't lose any mileage with the 3.29'*. I did lose a little on the highway and noticed it cut a little off the car'* long legs. The other side of the coin was when not already running 70mph, the car does get up and go a lot better.
Glad to have you over and always a pleasure to work on a non-W body. Right until you reminded me about that bolt hitting the body where the Bonneville can pull right out.
Odd that you didn't lose any mileage with the 3.29'*. I did lose a little on the highway and noticed it cut a little off the car'* long legs. The other side of the coin was when not already running 70mph, the car does get up and go a lot better.
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Put together some pics:
I've been taking an auto body class at the local voc-tech, and some of the pictures show new paint, some look like crap, and they change as the pictures get newer. I have been repainting one area at a time due to the short timeframe of the class - it'* very hard to paint an entire car in a 3 hour class! So far I've redone the pass. rear quarter panel, trunk lid and most recently did the roof in galaxy silver metallic.
Here'* one from before my most recent paint, just after adding the rims: (they are borbet Type E 17x8s)
![](http://homepage.mac.com/derekcunningham/Pictures/RivBorbet17s.jpg)
Here'* some photoshop fun from before the new paint:
![](http://homepage.mac.com/derekcunningham/Pictures/riviera_4inch.jpg)
and here'* a couple from after the new paint:
![](http://gallery.me.com/derekcunningham/100089/PB030010/web.jpg)
![](http://gallery.me.com/derekcunningham/100089/PB030003/web.jpg)
-Derek
I've been taking an auto body class at the local voc-tech, and some of the pictures show new paint, some look like crap, and they change as the pictures get newer. I have been repainting one area at a time due to the short timeframe of the class - it'* very hard to paint an entire car in a 3 hour class! So far I've redone the pass. rear quarter panel, trunk lid and most recently did the roof in galaxy silver metallic.
Here'* one from before my most recent paint, just after adding the rims: (they are borbet Type E 17x8s)
![](http://homepage.mac.com/derekcunningham/Pictures/RivBorbet17s.jpg)
Here'* some photoshop fun from before the new paint:
![](http://homepage.mac.com/derekcunningham/Pictures/riviera_4inch.jpg)
and here'* a couple from after the new paint:
![](http://gallery.me.com/derekcunningham/100089/PB030010/web.jpg)
![](http://gallery.me.com/derekcunningham/100089/PB030003/web.jpg)
-Derek
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