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Stull Grill. The old Caprice grill didn't look too good, so we decided to get something else. We didn't want to go with Impala SS grill, so we got the one from Stull. We thought that the grill would come with a plastic thing around it, but it didn't. Looks original though... |
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Push Bumper. When I got the car off the auction, the push bumper was taken off, but 4 brackets for it were still on the car. I didn't want to take them off, since it would leave ugly holes, so we found a company that installs push bumpers for taxi cabs... |
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Tail Light Blackout [?]. Blacked out the silver chrome around the tail lights, by painting it. Covered the tail lights with the night shade, which becomes invisible during the night. Gives the rear end of the car a much cleaner look. Total cost - about $20... |
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Fog Lights. Installed fog lights. Constructed 2 custom brackets for the fog lights to be attached to [bumper cover is too soft]. The brackets are screwed to the metal bumper under the cover. The switch is mounted in the place of the trunk relase button. |
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Custom Number Plate [X]. Got a custom number plate so the people wouldn't think that I'm an undercover cop. Thought a lot before came up with it. "CCCP" stands for USSR spelled in Russian. And you should know what KGB stands for. Be afraid! :) |
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Racing Stripes. Added the stripes, so the car wouldn't look like a police cruiser anymore. The stripes aren't painted, but in fact are the stickers. Before I got them installed I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but it turned out to be really kewl. |
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GTS Head Light Covers. The plastic lens on one of the head lights is very dirty, and doesn't seem to be cleanable. Other one seems to be new. So it didn't look very kewl. New lenses cost a lot, so for now I put these on. They look good with the stripes too. |
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Red Bow Tie [?]. Golden bow tie didn't look to hot on the trunk lid. The color didn't match with anything. So I used some red tape, which is normally used to fix broken tail lights, to make it red. Looks much better, and seems to be durable (tested by car wash). |
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Tinted Windows. Tinted all of the windows way over the allowed percentage. This way the car looks much better, and it feels much more comfortable to be inside. All of them have equal darkness level, except for the front one (untinted). |
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Super White Head Lights. Installed a pair of super white head light bulbs. Basically they have a blue tint over the glass, and that makes them look white. But the black head light covers actually turn them yellow again :). So not much of a difference. |
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9C1 Aero Wipers. Replaced regular wipers with 9C1 aero wipers. I installed it on both sides, unlike the 9C1 packaged cars were done (only driver side had aero wiper). These have little wings attached to them, which push the blade closer to the window. |
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Caprice SS Fender Scripts. These are the scripts which were used on the Impala SS cars exported to Middle East. Looks really great with blacked out tail lights, and black stripes. The scripts are located on both of the rear fenders. |
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Chrome Exhaust Tips. Removed a pair of old tips, and chanaged to these differently shaped ones. The old ones kept scraping the road surface all the time, and by now were totally deformed. These look better too, in my opinion. |
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17" Impala SS Rims. Switched to 17" Impala SS rims from the stock 15" 9C1 rims. Paid $600 for all 4 of them. Install them right after the sway bars, so can't really tell what affected what. But it does look good, and the car is getting even more attention now. |
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Custom License Plate. Lost the front plate in the old style, had to return the second one to the DMV. Drove a month with standard plates, and reordered my custom ones in the new style. Don't know which ones look better, but it's not like I had a choice. |
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Nitto NT-450 V-Rated Tires. Switched from 225/70/15 tires to 275/50/17 tires. These are 5cm wider then the old ones. The new ones are have a bigger diameter. The difference is only about 1%. Great performance and visual enhancement. |
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Vent Visors. Very useful during rain, when you want to have your windows open a bit, and no water going inside, or during very hot summer days, when again you want to leave the windows open a bit, and people will not see that they are actually open. |
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