This is my build thread of sorts, basically a record of what I've done to my little Oldsmobile over the last 7 years.
2005:
Bought a 2001 GLS, low milage, no accidents, perfect paint. Really didn't want an Alero until I sat in one and fell in love with the interior. Picked mine up on a cloudy day, it was the nicest car I had ever driven.
I don't have the pictures from the first year, I didn't even own a camera.
Mods:
Lowered on intrax springs. Payed way too much to have them installed. I had never done more than a tire change at this point.
Painted the headlight bezels but kept the reflectors to stay legal.
Pretty sure I installed a cd player out of my 84' Cutlass.
Replaced the foglights with brighter ones for a trip to the mountains.
Had an accident in November, was hit going across an icy road at night. It tore the driver side wheel off the car, popped the trunk, ripped up the rear bumper cover and damaged the quarter panel behind the wheel well. They didn't write it off, and for $100 the guys sanded and repainted my chipped front bumper cover and filled in the holes from the license plate bracket (Saskatchewan had just switched to "no front license plate")
2006:
Mods:
Messed around with leds
Painted my calipers red
Probably installed an amp and sub + some 4x6s
Removed the shattered air dam
Had the lower intake manifold gaskets replaced
Riced out that engine bay lol
Painted my interior
2007:
Mods:
Dremeled some speakers to fit in my doors
R1 concepts drilled and slotted rotors
Started to de-rice the engine
started playing with the idea of modifying the front end, which is the ugliest part of an Alero IMO
electrical tape:
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