Pizza, you asked for pics. Here's the resu"wrex"tion :)

[bottledbird68]

Ok, I know it's an fbody forum but hey, there's other stuff here and there, and I was told pics or ban lol.

This car is my other halfs baby. We originally picked it up after the previous owners brother put it into a wall at a racetrack. Car had 27k on it at the time and had been a road race car it's whole life.
We put a new passenger side on it, put a full interior back in it, and drove the hell out of it for 2 years.
Well, then it happened. Back 2 Decembers ago we had that really bad ice storm. Thanks to falling trees and large chunks of ice the car got pummeled.
Here's how it looked then:

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Anyhow, car had full coverage on it. Worked with the insurance appraiser and got them not to total the car. Wound up about $200 away though lol.
Anyhow, here's a few more to show what a number falling chunks of ice can really do:

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So, we decided to take the check, pay off what was left of the loan, and slowly gather parts. Well, like any other project, life set in and it took a LOT longer than it should have to get back to it.
When we originally bought the car she loved everything about it, except that it didn't have a sunroof. I told her I refused to put an aftermarket one in but if the car ever needed a roof we'd find a factory sunroof roof.
As you can see from the pics, I ate my words on that one lol. Ever realize how rare factory impreza sunroofs are? After a 4 month search we wound up driving to long island ny where we picked up a complete sunroof roof.
While we were at it we decided to put the rollbar back in, with a few tweaks to make it more livable on a daily basis.

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Now, bear in mind, this is a girls car, and she's tired of being asked if it's her boyfriends car. So, the rollbar went the closest think we could find to sti pink

And the new parts along with some body work. All said and done we replaced both front fenders, the hood, the roof, the trunk, and both passenger side doors. That along with the cars prior history means the only original panels left on the car are the drivers front door, drivers rear quarter, and the front bumper lol.

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Finally, in the booth ready to go:


And the black base coat

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Now, still with me? Here's your extreme rice warning lol.
Again, keep in mind this is a female owned ride.
This:


Plus this:


Equals this:

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And, along with some other odds and ends, and a full 05 sti interior swap, here it is almost all back together. Tomorrow I'm going to button up a few final odds and ends and swap the clutch, tranny, and coil overs. Keep in mind 90% of this has been done in the last few weeks. I'm beat lol. Feel free to comment away. Now let's see if this finally gets her to post lol.

[irockidz28]

wow that car has been thru quite a bit in its day lol looks good tho!!

[Batman]

Awesome except the graphics, but just not my thing. quality wise it looks great!

[irockidz28]

i dont think the graphics look bad on the car i think it works...just not crazy about the hood but i think it al lworks together