turbojimmy
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Originally posted by troGNman
Wow, that was a major undertaking! I'm glad you had the patience to finish the job. I never could have pulled that off.
I noticed the front grille of the car looks a little different than stock. I see what looks like two Caddy crests, hood/grille. The grille 'hole' was usually reserved for cars that got the "nightvision" option.
See if you can scrounge up the chrome rims for that car. My neighbor has the same year car in red with the chrome wheels and it is stunning to say the least.
Enjoy the car and excellent job!
Good eye. The car originally had night vision. At some point in its life, however, the camera must have failed. Since it's $3,000 to fix they removed the camera and replaced the night vision grille with a standard DTS body-colored grille. When I got the car the LCD screen and heads-up display were still installed. Since it is part of the dash, but useless since it was flooded, I gutted the heads-up unit so now it's just an empty black box with a clear plastic cover. I could put a hinge on it and stash stuff in there I guess.
I'm going to remove the emblem on the hood because it's redundant with that grille emblem installed.
The car I originally chose from the lot of flood cars was an identical car (white diamond DTS) without the carriage top and with chrome rims and the vogue tires (wide white wall and gold pin stripe). It was not a night vision car, though. They dragged it in, cleaned it up and when they went to change the oil they saw a connecting rod through the block. It got sent back to auction - I should have swapped the rims and tires while I had the chance. I prefer the car without the carriage top, but he only had the 2 DTS', the others were base Devilles. Once you see a base and a DTS side by side you can really tell the difference.
Anyhow, thanks for the kind words. I may put a set of chrome rims on it eventually but they're pretty pricey. The first mod is going to be a Corsa exhaust system - they sound really nice and perk it up a bit.
Jim