before and after

[AndyS]

I finally found a before pic

[kikass_2002]

what wheels are those?

awsome car!! lots of work huh?!

[AndyS]

15 inch minilites all the work was done by Greg Lavalle at Lavalle's Import Restoration in Oak Ridge NC.

[PSloan]

When is it getting an s14?

[jerry]

that was a VERY nice looking 'before' picture...

sorry.

to each his/her own.

[Harv]

Andy, all your cars are too cool! I like the SC car. Are those DAP's fiberglass bumpers?

John

[oz_tom]

Looks decent before. Now it just looks amazing.

[Guest Anonymous]

One thing to remember when starting a project is to start with a great doner car. Why spend a lot of time and money putting quarters etc into a chassis. This will save a lot of money and give you a better final product.

Yes those are DAPBMW flairs, kamia replica spoiler and rear bumper on the car. we had the body shop blended them into the body for a cleaner look.

I guess andy forgot all the hours I put into that car, sigh................ jk andy

Sam

LaValle's Import Restorations

Oak Ridge, NC

merlin_m3_racing (AT) yahoo.com note the 2 underscores

[winstontj]

(nt)

[Jim_75Sahara]

Andy's car makes some wicked cool sounds, too! I like the before and after pics on your car. nice either way.

[dubois]

Do you have a picture of your current entire collection? I too like the SC one.

[Harv]

I think he's been thinning the heard.

John

[AndyS]

Not many left in the herd, hehe. a note about the super charged after vrs the before. The orginal idea was to use a 72 tii shell I had, paint it silver and all the trim was to go back on. I morphed into what you see in the after. Greg at the body shop "talked" me into the yellow. Greg talked me into no trim. The stripes are actual 2002 body colors. I don't know how many of you remember the before. I bought it out of Ga. It was an automatic,roundel on rear was on the left rear. It ran, barely. In fact my kids used to practice driving it around the house. It was solid underneath. the hood, trunk lid front fenders and drivers door all had to be replaced. I did like having a red 02 though...

the side skirts did require alot of work, I really wanted it to be flat sided. that didn't work out. The orginal car had alot of ugly mess where the trim would have gone. Extra holes, welded holes and it would have probably taken new body parts to get that to look right.