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Old 06-17-2009, 02:21 PM
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the someone did this



http://jalopnik.com/5293868/youre-do...ition/gallery/

or that someone in CFOT can't figure out what's wrong with doing it!

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Are people laughing at the color or at the fact he painted the whole thing?
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off-...c4-owners.html
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Old 06-17-2009, 02:40 PM
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I can't believe someone would put yellow rotors on a silver car... what were they thinking
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Old 06-17-2009, 02:42 PM
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It'll be fine once he uses the brakes a couple times
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Old 06-17-2009, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by blown87
I had a damaged car towed to the shop a few years back, a nice BMW that the brakes had failed on.

The doctor that owned it had sprayed the brakes with WD-40 because they were squealing.

Stupidity and cars seem to go hand and hand for some folks.
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Old 06-17-2009, 04:14 PM
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I think that red would have looked much better.
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Old 06-17-2009, 04:23 PM
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Just, wow. Any idiot with a wrench...
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Old 06-17-2009, 04:29 PM
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Everybody knows you don't use Krylon on rotors...you use rust-oleum !
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Old 06-17-2009, 05:19 PM
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Thats what happens when ricers start buying corvettes................... There goes the neighborhood.
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Old 06-17-2009, 05:23 PM
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Yea, well, you see the kind of brakes I put on my car, RED!
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Old 06-17-2009, 07:30 PM
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I saw this done a couple years ago on another forum, but the kid painted the rotors on his dads lawn. I think people where more shocked that his dad didnt beat his a** for spray painting the lawn
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I see a future motivational poster with that picture on it in the future.
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Originally Posted by burners
Just, wow. Any idiot with a wrench...
You mean, "Any idiot with a rattle can".
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not going to hurt anything, just won't have any paint the first time he drives the car and his calipers still look like @$$
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Old 06-18-2009, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by rickreeves1
...or you just buy them colored already.


http://www.trinetmotorsports.com/

Gold, Silver, or Black.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/EBC-G...Q5fAccessories

That's different!
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Old 06-18-2009, 09:41 AM
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I think this is the type of guy that would do that:
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Old 06-18-2009, 09:47 AM
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You could paint the whole thing with that temperature paint so it will change colors.
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That is actually a pretty good idea!
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Originally Posted by ghoffman
I think this is the type of guy that would do that:
Hey wait, you the one anodizing rotor hats for e-brakes...

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