dutch animals project - bye bye neon, you've been good to me

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Post by Jenni » Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:53 am

i like it how the grille looks now!

the stock chrome is somehow gay...

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Post by dutch animal » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:48 pm

LOL

yeah i like it better this way ;)
whitout the "gay grome" :P

about the snow thing .. i'm glad it's about gone now .. it's fun for 2 days, then it's just anoing.
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Post by Tam » Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:44 pm

I actually like the grill painted black like that. I might have to do that to mines too. LOL

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Post by dutch animal » Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:52 pm

i hope it isn't because we said grome is gay :))

you do that tam ... paint the sucker right up ;)
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Post by dutch animal » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:26 am

he people i'll place this here because i'm not allowd to post in the sale topic yet.

i know now how much you guy's and girls over there love the chrysler grill.

i'm willing to buy a few over here ( second hand ) and ship them to some of you over there.

the price im not sure of yet ( shipping cost ect )
but there are lots of people here that dig the dodge grill... so there's always a way.

just let me know if there is intrest for this over here ... if there is enough intrest, i'll arrange for somthing like this.

let me know please.
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Post by dutch animal » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:46 am

ok little update here ;)

went to a meeting from our dutch neonsonline forum.

got my xenon bumperlip there :D

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did a little photo shop with it .. it's gonna look somthing like this ( have to do somthing to the plate though )

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Post by LilSparkPlug » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:47 am

Yeah the plate opening on the bumper and the plate opening on the rear lip don't line up right. If you elongate it, it may look much better.

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Post by dutch animal » Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:59 pm

yeah it's what iám about to do, but i just fixt the lip .. so i could see how it looks ;)

i have to re mod it .. and spray paint it .. but it will be summertime before i do it, to cold outside now :D

there will be a lot more mod's in the summertime :D
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Post by Speeder » Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:17 pm

i like that lip...
good luck with the rest of the build
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Post by Jenni » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:14 pm

puuuh - try to find an american bumper!
with that different licence plate openings it looks odd....

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Post by dutch animal » Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:41 pm

yeah i know .. would fit and look a little better.

but the shipping cost of the usa bumper is killing :(

and ill have the problem of fitting the license plate, i can't just put on a us plate ( the law here :( )
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Post by LilSparkPlug » Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:29 am

I can't wait for warmer weather either! It shouldn't be too hard to fix, I'm sure it will come out just fine.

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Post by UriahRR » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:13 am

Damn, I can't wait until summertime... car's coming along well Mr. Green. That lip wasn't bolted on in the pics was it, because it was pretty lop-sided as well?
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Post by dutch animal » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:14 pm

:)) no it's just hanging on .. im gonna glue it when it's done.

@crystal do you mind if i steel an idear of yours ?

i was checking your ride, i love the black you've used.

im thinking of doing, my top , trunk , hood , skirts( when i have them) in the same black you've used.

you wouldn't mind do you ;)
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Post by Jenni » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:45 pm

dutch animal wrote:yeah i know .. would fit and look a little better.

but the shipping cost of the usa bumper is killing :(

and ill have the problem of fitting the license plate, i can't just put on a us plate ( the law here :( )
Licence plate is no problem. sure, shipping is a killer but you can find such a bumper also in europe. in the US-army barracks.
Ask the guys in your national Neon-board. Or ask the dutch brothers with the white SRT.
You can find them in the overseas section of the srt-forum.

www.srtforums.com/forums/f66

You can install in the US bumper a 2-row european liccence plate.
fits perfekt.

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Post by LilSparkPlug » Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:49 am

dutch animal wrote::)) no it's just hanging on .. im gonna glue it when it's done.

@crystal do you mind if i steel an idear of yours ?

i was checking your ride, i love the black you've used.

im thinking of doing, my top , trunk , hood , skirts( when i have them) in the same black you've used.

you wouldn't mind do you ;)
Not at all, they're two totally different cars/styles/themes go for it :)

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Post by dutch animal » Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:18 am

@ jenny ... thanx for the info, and indeed i forgot about that kind of plate :D
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Post by dutch animal » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:03 pm

ok little change here .. didnt realy like the rear anymore ( happens every few weeks )

so changed it a bit ... back to basic.

original tails .. and red third instead of the white on that didn't fit the cars looks.

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tell me what you think ;)
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Post by Jenni » Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:55 pm

hmmmmm. i don't like it!

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Post by UriahRR » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:32 pm

Na man, stick with the black tail lights.
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Post by dutch animal » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:44 pm

hmmm i.m thinking off getting myself a new set of euro originals and tint them ... a little les than i did with the altezza's .. there wasn't a lot of light comming through ...
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Post by neonslg09 » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:57 pm

I like it!!

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Post by dutch animal » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:09 am

ok so i've been looking voor "the look" i want my car to have, something new, like nobody els has ( it's cool to be different i think )

so i did a photoshop with the stuff i have in the garage.

this i what dutch animal is gonna look like in a few months.

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tell me what you think, like and dislike... always intrested in other vieuws than mine ;)
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Post by cbjones26 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:24 am

im not sure if i like the rear lip , but i do like the rest of it, keep up the good work!


i want that rear bumper though!!! ( w/o the lip)

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Post by dank(r/t) » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:43 am

i don't like the rear lip, it's gonna look even worse because you don't have skirts, but, it does look much better than stock with that dreadfull exhaust you have. just don't paint the chicken wire bodycolour, just leave it black.
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Post by dutch animal » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:11 pm

dank(r/t) wrote:i don't like the rear lip, it's gonna look even worse because you don't have skirts, but, it does look much better than stock with that dreadfull exhaust you have. just don't paint the chicken wire bodycolour, just leave it black.
the xenon skirts are comming too ( in time :) )

i know a lot of people dislike the xenon lip, i like it though ;)

and about the wire ... it's gonna be gray like the front wire ... but didn't shop that right ,i know ;)

the exauhst .... I LOVE THAT THING !! but he .. thats me :D
cbjones26 wrote: i want that rear bumper though!!! ( w/o the lip)
why ??? yours the same w/o ugly fogs and w/o ugly big ass plate ???
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Post by UriahRR » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:51 am

dutch animal wrote:
cbjones26 wrote: i want that rear bumper though!!! ( w/o the lip)
why ??? yours the same w/o ugly fogs and w/o ugly big ass plate ???
^Exactly! I don't understand the fascination with the Euro bumpers. They have huge fog lights in them that kill the lines.

About your lips, though, in that picture above it has both the Mopar lip and the Xenon lip. Running both lips just makes it look like a body kit = not good. Hopefully this is a mistake?
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Post by LilSparkPlug » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:12 am

I like how you want to tint the lights, tint the third brake light too, it throws everything off the way that it is in that chop being clear. I actually kind of like that rear lip....other than the third brake light I think that chop is great :)

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Post by Tam » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:19 am

I really hate that rear lip. Just throw it away.

Get a mopar lip or something.

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Post by dutch animal » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:44 am

UriahRR wrote: About your lips, though, in that picture above it has both the Mopar lip and the Xenon lip. Running both lips just makes it look like a body kit = not good. Hopefully this is a mistake?
uuuhh .. thats just one lip dude ... i shopt it a little to high, but this is the lip, not a combo ;)
Tam wrote:I really hate that rear lip. Just throw it away.

Get a mopar lip or something.
no how no way dude :) ... i like the lip, think it's gonna look nice in the total pic of the car lateron.

like i said before .. i like to be different, i know there are a lot of people hating the lip ... but i think if i do it right, i could make the work and look pretty damn good ;)
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