Volvo X (1967 Pro-Touring Amazon) by Iamtheonlyreal1

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I have considered using the 1st Gen Camaro air dam before, and I have had one on hand for awhile, but I didn't really give it a full try, so I think I will take another look at it after seeing the potential here?

By these posted pictures, I think that it has potential if it was situated several inches further back.? Luckily I have a custom metal one instead of the typical plastic, so I can take just a bit more liberty with the alteration and modification to get it just right, so I guess we will see how it works out.

2-19-2014

Here are a couple of pics of the event decaling, and I think I like it overall... I have a couple of more smaller items like event numbers, but this is the overall theme.









The decals are right and left side so the red blocking works out correctly, and I think the color spectrum works great, and the red parts of the decals actually make the red brake calipers pop inside the wheels for some reason.

3-2-2014

The car was a hit at the Plano Texas Cars and Coffee event this weekend, and what a great monthly car show of Exotics, Muscle Cars, Classics, ect, plus there was such a huge turn out of hundreds of cars that they quit letting them in at 7:30am. I got a visit from the Discovery Channels Fast and Loud Crew from the Gas Monkey Garage to check out the car, and found out that I am competing against Aaron in the upcoming Ultimate Street Car Challenge... And after that show, I went to eat lunch at the Gas Monkey Bar and Grill and pulled up into another afternoon car show I didn't know about, so I decided to pay the entry to have awesome parking, and I won Best Street/Race Car and Best of Show... LOL

3-7-2014

I enjoy the show myself, but I hope that I am able to beat their 63 Falcon in a few of the judging category's at the Ultimate Street Car Challenge.. LOL Here is a YouTube video about the event...  

For the guys that are not familiar with the Ultimate Street Car Challenge, there are several categories of judging during a 3 day event that range from Engineering/Styling, a Road Rally with spotters and check points through city to see if the cars make sense for real world driving by not having to do special maneuvers during normal driving task, Autocross and Speed Brake Challenge, along with the Hot Lap Challenge on a full road course.. From there, they put together all the scoring to find the best over all Street/Performance car, so you can kick ass on the Road Course and suck in the real world and still lose.

I have worked out some trunk close out panels to hide the fuel tank and clean up the appearance a bit, and I think it will look great as soon as it is all covered in leather, and it really quieted the car down a lot also.. I have also been working on the custom carpet, and as you can see in the pictures, all the floor panels are completely covered in the Hush Mat and Carpet insulation, and this has really transformed the overall quality of the cars noise and comfort..

Here are some pics of the interior before the carpet install...

3-9-2014

I still have to send the carpet out to have the black vinyl borders added to them, but these pics offer the overall appearance for now until the interior is changed at a later date.. I just needed something in it so it has a basic interior for judging and to take the race car appearance out of it.. I will do some sort of darken up or black out of the back of the gauge panel at a later date, because I haven't found the solution to what I want to do for that yet.