First Look: Pre-painted Parts Launch 10.26.09

I own a 2005 GT that I want to modify with a new hood, front spoiler and maybe window louvers. It is nearly impossible to find a body shop that wants to do this work. I have had
many tell me they dont work with fiberglass or that they feel it wont look good and say adding a fiberglass hood is a bad idea. One shop said they would do it but gave me an estimate on the phone for an unbeliveably exboratant price!! I cant wait for the pre-painted parts.

I bought a scratch and dent Steeda street wing from Frank’s Garage for practically free. Fixed it up and primed with spray can primer before taking it to the local Ford dealer for paint. I found out they stopped using lacquer primer decades ago. They said they would have to take it all the way down and re-prime it or the paint may bubble off. No thanks. “Can you match this paint to my vinyl stripes?” Nope. “Don’t you have one of those paint matchey machines like Home Depot?” Nope. “Does anyone?” Oh yeah, the paint shop up the road does. “Be right back.” The paint shop gave me a paint code. The dealer painted it in a day and it’s perfect… at least until the paint bubbles off.

So does this mean you can.. say.. paint the anthracite wheels I’m going to order chrome?

yeaaa!! Hope to see some vermillion red parts for my 96 lookin to get a spoiler soon

I recently replaced my rear bumper on my V6 with a GT bumper. I bought one “pre-painted” and in “good condition” at a hard to believe price with no returns. Also, the price of shipping was quite high. For the price, I decided to give it a shot…how bad could it be? Well, it’s the old saying..”You get what you pay for!”. When I got it, the paint didn’t match, two of the tabs were broken, and it needed some work. Needless to say, I ended up turning around and reselling it for less than what I paid to someone who said they could make it look new. The person who bought it from me knew what they were getting…the funny part of this is that he ended up selling it for even less than what he paid me to a junkyard!! Sad…but it goes to show that when you go with AMERICAN MUSCLE, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTING..and FREE SHIPPING! I learned my lesson! Stick with AM!

Well about a year ago i bought my mustang it had a broken wing so i took it to the local paint shop to get an estimate on how much it would cost to get repaired. they told me it would cost about $2000.00 so i said humamamamageeejeeebees and bought a steeda wing from”americanmuscle.com” for $249.00 but then i chose to get the wing painted from the local body shop and they told me it would cost half of what my broken wing would cost. so then i got my puppy from home to hopefully make the cost lower for the cuteness of my dog. it didnt work so then i went to the local mcdonalds and pigged out because i am very depressed that i wont be able to get my spoiler painted in time for the regional need for speed competitions. i have only placed 2nd place so i want to win the audi r8 grand prize for beating the level 1 boss. so i still went to the races with my puppy in my passenger seat barking away at the competition. so when i lined up at the beginning of the race my dog bit of his fuel line and i won the race and got enough cash to paint and repair both of my spolers now my car has twice the aerodynamics than it did before. so now with the 50 dollars im going to win here im going to buy every thing i can pre-painted. yes i know this story is really dumb but the rules didnt say it had to be real haha i hope i win im planning on buying a cobra r hood and pre-painted would really be of some help. i love your website americanmuscle there isnt one day i go without looking at new products keep up the great work.

So I ordered a spoiler for my 02 mustang gt, my stock one had somehow got destroyed by someone in our garage shooting an air compressor attachement at it and taking a nice chunk out of it, at least thats the story that my brother told me , haha. I ordered a new stock gt spoiler and took it down to a local paint shop, a bunch of my friends drive imports and they take their cars down there to have their body kits painted and stuff like that done. They said that they do a good job and that their prices are pretty fair. Well I get there and tell the guy at the front that I wanted the spoiler painted the same color as my car. He got the color profile down and said that it should be done and ready to pic up in two days since they were kinda busy. He also told me that it would be about $120 to paint the part. I agreed and came back two days later. I walked in and the same exact guy I had talked to was there, I told him I was there to pic up the part and he said hold on one moment. He came back and instead of haveing my part he had a set of car keys, he handed them to me and said to walk around the back to the garage and pic the car up. First off I never left my keys or my car at the place, and also the keys were for a mitsubishi. I told him that he was mistaken and the only thing he said was “weeellllll…..uummm…..we may have a bit of a problem on our hands then….” So we walked around to the garage and there I see my spoiler somehow custom mounted on some girls 92 lancer. The color on the spoiler was green with like neon purple stripes. My mouth dropped in amazment because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I told him that he was bascially an idiot and that I wanted my spoiler painted the color that I asked it to be painted. He wanted to then charge me $400 for the labor or mounting the spoiler on the worng car and for painting it the wrong color. I told him that he was crazy and that I wasn’t going to pay for that so he threatened to call the cops. I said “go ahead, and before they leave here today Ill have gotten my spoiler painted and for free”. Sure enough the cops came down there, I talked to them a bit and the paint shop re-painted the spoiler and did it for free. Btw the lancer had to have body work done on it because they had drilled holes in the trunk in order for it to fit. So I ended up getting a it painted for free, but it would be much more convenient if you guys could do pre-painted parts. Thanks guys!!

So i purchased my 09′ V6 coupe in about may, instead of getting decal racing stripes i went and had the stripes actually painted on! pretty expensive but well worth the money at the end of the day! Long story short, about two weeks later i leave my car out in the mall parking lot, far from everyone elses to avoid car door dents…i come out from the movies and someone key’d my left stripe from front…all the way to the back!

i can honestly say my heart broke that day!

I got in a small accident and ended up deciding to replace the front bumper and fender. So I go to a body shop that my dad has known for several years and the guy offered us a pretty good price. I somehow found a 99 cobra front bumper used and spotless for $180 and decided to get that on instead! But…somewhere in the painting process, someone broke my gas pedal, cracked my ipod screen, and…to top it off…washed the car with the hood cracked up and got my coils soppy and wet! So I had to replace two coils and I’ve repeatedly had to change spark plugs and never before that did I have a single ignition problem. Oh that and they scraped my X-pipe so hard I got a new exhaust leak! At least my car looked better after? But thank God I can save my money and time and trust American Muscle to do it right the first time from now on.