Great looking A-body at SEMA

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Plenty to see at SEMA this year but caught this in a great spot

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oh wow
im not gonna comment on that one or someones feeling would get hurt
 
diymirage said:
oh wow
im not gonna comment on that one or someones feeling would get hurt
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Here is one of those situations where a wide range of opinions may occur.
I like that green color. I like it on just about any car that I have seen it on. The grille? I like that too. It looks almost like something Ma Mopar may have done. I see shades of 72-74 Cuda in it. Also, I notice a popular trend of using stock bumpers that are cut and fitted tighter to the body. This looks so much better than stock!
I like this car far more than the Green 69 Charger built by the Ring Brothers. That car is all wrong.
 
Lot of money went into that car, that’s for sure. I like a lot of it, they did a great job with the stance. Few little things I’d do different but that’s just personal preference stuff, I don’t like wheels that bright or two tone paint jobs, but that’s just me.

But the grille. That poor Duplo grille is horrible. I get they were trying for more modern, clean, simple. But the details are just all wrong. Maybe it looks better with the hood down.
 
That's a gorgeous Demon!! Lots of custom work on the grill & rear panel for the LOOK achieved :)

Did you take any interior pics?
 
Ma Mopar did two tone paint jobs on 340 Dusters....Who wouldn't like that???
 
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would this grill work better? At least it wouldn't be a third color

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Kern Dog said:
Ma Mopar did two tone paint jobs on 340 Dusters....Who wouldn't like that???
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Me.

But a hood blackout and a vinyl top isn’t really what I would consider a two tone paint job, there’s different textures and trim.

Having it all gloss just changes it, even if they followed the factory lines. Shaving the trim makes a big difference, just puts the lines out in space.



pishta said:
View attachment 1715107090 would this grill work better? At least it wouldn't be a third color

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I like that one better. But it’s not even about the third color, it’s the shape of the grille. The grille on the Demon has all flat surfaces on the front, squared off center bar, lots of ugly corners. The Barracuda grille there still has a peaked divider, rounded details on the corners, etc. It looks finished, the Demon grille just looks plain and unfinished.
 
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Hmmm, You are the first person that I heard that disliked the blackout. Even on AAR and T/A cars?
I love the contrast, especially on yellow and B-5 blue cars.
 
It seems these people are always trying to make every mopar they do, resemble
a modern challenger look? Next thing they'll be morphing designs from Batmobile. LOL
Not for me, sorry

Ya, Grill looks cheezy and cheap.........
 
Probably WAS a nice car at one time..too bad they screwed it up..UGLY:eek::eek::eek:
 
Kern Dog said:
Hmmm, You are the first person that I heard that disliked the blackout. Even on AAR and T/A cars?
I love the contrast, especially on yellow and B-5 blue cars.
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That’s not what I said at all. I like the blackouts and hood treatments that the factory did. But that’s not the same as a two tone paint job. All the factory blackouts were matte too, which makes a big difference.

Even with this car it would look better if they’d kept or installed the vinyl top trim for the 3/4 style vinyl tops and used that to break the colors, there’d be that extra contrast and definition. But instead they just threw that line across the roof out in space- no body line to follow, no trim, no real rhyme or reason to its shape or placement. It doesn’t follow the factory trim line, or even really the shape of the over-the-roof stripe on some of the later cars. And since it’s gloss on gloss, it just becomes another two tone paint job with weird lines. Heck I don’t even see a pinstripe on there, but it’s hard to tell.

That’s were I think a lot of the “modern” look resto’s fail. They shave all the trim and you get an overly smooth look that doesn’t fit the original lines of the car. That’s why some of that trim was there, to highlight the body lines/shape. Same with the bumpers, it was part of the overall design to have that contrasting color there. New cars use different tricks to highlight features. Not saying you can’t make it work, just that you have to consider how removing or painting trim will change the overall lines and look of the car. In this case I think they missed it, especially on the roof.

But that’s just my opinion. I paint everything black, so, what do I know.
 
72bluNblu said:
That’s not what I said at all. I like the blackouts and hood treatments that the factory did. But that’s not the same as a two tone paint job. All the factory blackouts were matte too, which makes a big difference.

Even with this car it would look better if they’d kept or installed the vinyl top trim for the 3/4 style vinyl tops and used that to break the colors, there’d be that extra contrast and definition. But instead they just threw that line across the roof out in space- no body line to follow, no trim, no real rhyme or reason to its shape or placement. It doesn’t follow the factory trim line, or even really the shape of the over-the-roof stripe on some of the later cars. And since it’s gloss on gloss, it just becomes another two tone paint job with weird lines. Heck I don’t even see a pinstripe on there, but it’s hard to tell.

That’s were I think a lot of the “modern” look resto’s fail. They shave all the trim and you get an overly smooth look that doesn’t fit the original lines of the car. That’s why some of that trim was there, to highlight the body lines/shape. Same with the bumpers, it was part of the overall design to have that contrasting color there. New cars use different tricks to highlight features. Not saying you can’t make it work, just that you have to consider how removing or painting trim will change the overall lines and look of the car. In this case I think they missed it, especially on the roof.

But that’s just my opinion. I paint everything black, so, what do I know.
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I just think they should leave the A body look but still spend $50grand to enhance it.
They are missing the point of originality of all these rare produced cars compared
To gm or ford.
 
Kern Dog said:
Hmmm, You are the first person that I heard that disliked the blackout. Even on AAR and T/A cars?
I love the contrast, especially on yellow and B-5 blue cars.
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As I always say, That's why they make more than one flavor of ice cream.
 
That is true.
Sometimes when I like something so much, I just cannot see why anyone would feel differently.
 
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