Truck - Part III (Work in Progress) - Page 3

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ORIGINAL: 3hummers

Hopefully it comes off easy.

3hummers (Why do I keep forgetting your name ); It DID in fact come off easily It is now a high-gloss acrylic black with two coats of clear-coat, quietly drying in my 70 degree living room for a week.

I have one of those Garmin GPS V's too but the window is so small I can't see it well enough from my seat.  I only use it now as a portable and someday will buy a bigger street pilot so I can see than stupid thing. I HATE being visually impaired!

Then you would have laughed to see all the crap I had on my dash originally. I have since got rid of it all and just kept the radar detector. The NOAA weather radio emergencies come on automatically on that thing and in my area it's great to have.

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ORIGINAL: Trey124

GPS was a great idea, have to give that a try on mine.

You'll have to get an external antenna. You won't get very good reception if you don't.

I wonder how many months and pages this will be until I get this thing done

I painted the hood panel AGAIN gloss black with two coats of clearcoat. I know, I've said this in X other threads, but oh well.

I put the hub caps back on because it's just not the same without those things. I spent too much time on those to let them sit on the garage floor, and I missed that Hummer signature look, even though I still don't thing the hood panel should be on there

I may paint the chrome air intakes and possibly the chrome grill to match the gloss black. We'll see.

If anybody wants to volunteer their photoshop skills to help me see what it would look like like that, I'd appreciate it. I'll have to take a pic of it with the hood panel installed on Sat. and then you can make the air vent covers black to match, I think!

I like what you've done. I really like the interior............nice job.
 
The chome hood vent looks good, but I think it would look better with the lower profile handles. And I'm with Muddy on the chrome vents............Leave them red or paint them to match the rest of the black on the H3.
 
Just my $.02
 
Nice job so far!

Thanks Chris. That was my plan. The chrome covers may not come off without some prying, and then I may damage the actual covers. I'll probably just paint them black. I'm still amazed how well the hood cover looks with that paint. I'm getting better at this painting thing.

Damn HG, 3 posts in a row. You have been around Bob to long
 
I like the idea of painting the air vents black to match the hood vent. I just don't like them chrome, but that's me. I don't have issues with chrome, just don't like it there.
 
And I agree with you about the hub caps but I didn't want to hurt your feelings
 
Overall, good job so far

Hey HG!
 
Heres my 2 cents...chrome vent covers have to go, keep em the same color as your truck. chrome or black hood vent is fine but you gotta pick one or the either..no combos.  Some black roof rails would look good, and keep the hub caps.  I'm not a fan of the window rain vent thingys but thats just me.  If you wanted to paint the grill black that would look good.  And finally, but not cheaply ( maybe down the road )  get either some off road tires or some street tires depending on which way you want to go.  The stock tires you have just dont look right ( on anybodys rig ).  And I cant tell if your leveled out or not but if you go off road style lever it out, if you go street either one would look good.
 
 
Good luck.
 
 

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ORIGINAL: rhill20

Damn HG, 3 posts in a row. You have been around Bob to long

 
You say that like it's a BAD THING???

Get the Predator black vent covers with the built in offroad lights. That'll take care of the chrome issue. And if you don't like them I'll buy them off you for pennies on the dollar. 

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ORIGINAL: HummBob

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ORIGINAL: rhill20

Damn HG, 3 posts in a row. You have been around Bob to long

You say that like it's a BAD THING???

I'm being taught by the master, or it's just rubbing off on me

or, I'm creating the art of talking to myself online

Hey mfish! I'm right there with you. The reason I change so much is because I get ideas from the rigs I see here and see how great some of the things look. I make the impression I'm making it look nice for others but my tastes have changed seeing the ruggid looks as of late, so I've changed with it.

I'm planning on getting some MT's either this fall/winter or the spring, depending on the condition of these when the next winter hits. I'm trying to milk them for as long as I can, but honestly with all the off-roading I'd like to do, I'm going to TRY to get some this summer. Our club has affiliations with local tire places that give us rediculous deals on off-road tires.

As far as the chrome, It surely doesn't fit into my scheme anymore. Thanks for the advice though, and don't anybody be afraid of hurting my feelings I'm a big boy, so that's why I ask.

Here's a couple of not-so-good pics of how the vent cover turned out painted gloss black with clearcoat:









I'll take some better pics this weekend. I'm hoping I can get the vent covers to match. It's almost a mirror finish when you see it in person.

I think it was either you or alrock that said with all the money i spent on the add-on crap I could have bought new tires. You're right, but I can't justify it when these still have half their tread, especially when money is a little tight most of the time. Sometimes you have to experiment and improvise and hope for the best!

Don't mind me. Just post-whorin'

I'm going to paint one or both of the vents tonight when I get home. I'm not sure if I should sand the chrome covers first or just clean and paint right over them. I'm just lazy I suppose

I should have enough paint left in that can to paint both covers. I'll just have to tape some plastic over where the covers went for a few days. It's supposed to rain alot the next couple of days. It should look great once it's done.

And another thing....

Factory Chrome Grill
Red color-matched Grill (well, as good as paint can do)
or
Black color-matched to the hood and vent covers....

What do you think?

The hood vent looks good!
 
Ideally I would say paint the grille red to match the truck. But being that it takes the brunt of everything going down the road you may want to consider the black, would be easier to repaint if needed I think.

Thanks Rich. I thought about that. I'm still debating it. The problem is for it to dry properly I'd probably have to drive without the grill for a few days, so I'd have to do it on a Friday after work and put it back on Monday morning before I leave. I can't do it this weekend because it's supposed to rain and I don't want the humidity to affect it. I'll think about it.

In the meantime, here's some pics with the vent covers painted to match. I did it last night. Hopefully they dried enough to be water-resistant for the storms later.

I just realized the black paint looks a little grainy in the pics (Blackberry camera) but it's actaully very smooth and glossy.

Looks SWEET Mike!!!
 
I can tell it's Gloss!!!

Thanks.

Should I paint the chrome Antenna cover to match or leave it chrome? That piece is actually stainless steel with triple chrome plating. I thought it would be a shame to paint that

I'm still debating painting the front grill considering how much of a beating it gets from the weather. I'm going to take a pic this weekend and have somebody here photoshop it with diff colors and see how it looks before I do it.

If not, then I may be done

My KITT plates should be here any day also! Finally 20 to 25 business days after they are shipped is what they told me. WTF!

black vent covers look 100 times better than the chrome ones.... wise choice...

Thanks. I'll be de-chroming 1 of 2 last chrome parts tonight. Then, the only thing left is the front grill.

wow....

Gotta love Google

Looks great Mike! Looks MUCH better that way.
I would probably paint the antenna cover black to match, unless you have the stainless somewhere else. Just would look funny being the only thing that color, IMO

Thanks.  I painted the Ant. cover this morning.  Looks great! Time to go out with the wife.  Have fun today fellas