Diesel Dave2

I know you guys seen this a thousand times...I'm really dating myself on the smokey and the bandit trailer..I remember seeing the trailer on TV and seeing the movie in the theator...The good old days.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30...ler_shortfilms


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...VideoID=605095

Diesel Dave2

You guys are making it tough on me....My poll is almost a 50/50 split...

wannadiesel

Black ones are everywhere. Paint it brown.

FarmboyAC

Brown!! Keep it original...

ScottNGa

Own a 79 T/A Myself White or Red interior.
Brown is rare, but never sells for more. Unless you are doing a total restoration, on a rotisserie go black. They don't make alot of brown cars any more for a reason!

PAINT IT BLACK!!

scottsjeeprolet

Keep it stock right down to the original color. That way if you ever have to sell it, it will be worth more. Too many butchered classic cars out there, that makes the original ones more valuable.

Diesel Demon

A matching numbers car keep it the original color. To many black ones out there.

BrokeSolid

someone did that to my 1970 charger RT/SE before i bought it. it is a numbers matching all original car except a color change repaint from EF8 dark emerald green with a flat black rear stripe to black with a white stripe. they just painted over the original paint. i must say i like the black on the car but how can i not paint it back to original. the green on a RT car is kinda rare and not that great to look at but since it needs another repaint it will go back to green. plus it will be the only EF8 green car around my area. So i place my vote, keep it original, stay with brown.

and another thing, i've never seen a brown TA around here either.white, red, and black. that would be cool, dare to be different.

Asher

repainting a car to a diffferent color (properly) is a real pain, you have to deal with all the door jams, trunk jams, under the hood, trunk, around the windshield frame, etc... To do it right it is a nightmare and about 3x the labor. If you don't do it right then you might as well just consider it hacked like every other one out there...

Paint it brown, put the stripes on it and it will look great... I don't know what it would look like but maybe consider a very small amount of "pearl" additive just to make the reflection a little better.

You have a great car, that is a little different... be proud of that and "run with it", why blend in like sheep.

Diesel Dave2

Thanks guys for all the input...

Rednecktastic

I'd personally grow a burly mustach, buy leather chaps and vest and paint that car black.

Diesel Dave2

Here is a video that was done by a smokey and bandit fan....It's not bad if there was another smokey and the bandit movie..Did a pretty good job..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBXpRlKt_A

mcoleman

I'd keep it the original color but use a new paint and clear coat product for a more durable finish. I had an 81 model T/A when I was a teenager. Dad and I pulled the 301 engine out of it and installed a 68 Grand Prix 428 engine. We put an HEI distributer in it and replaced the factory rear gears with 3.23s in place of the factory 2.41 gearing. Re-installed the factory air also. It was a low mileage car to begin with and was only 4 years old when I got it. You could still pass it off as a 301 to the average person that didn't recognize the raised intake of the 428 compared to the sunken intake of the 301 and 260 engines. It ran consistent 9.20s in the 1/8 on the bone stock 428 with the HEI and back in the 80s that was a decent performing daily driver. I ran the ET bracket class with it until I left for the Army. The mileage really wasn't any different on the old 428 than it was on the emission product covered 301. Although gas was less than a dollar most of the time and fuel mileage wasn't a teenager's concern.