Panel - this is cool. I wanted to buy a HHR panel, but ... Features and difficulties of getting the car through the ocean.
If I correctly understand you with my terrible English, you're asking advice on decorating your "new baby"? Make it two-tone. Add a couple of modest (not flashy), nickel-plated moldings on the sides. Replace regular grill & wheells. Be stylish.

P.S. If I do not understand you correctly - sorry

 

what it is - a military discount? If not hard to tell ..
How much? How often? What can you buy?

 

You understand quite well, and your suggestions are pretty much along the lines I was thinking! The exception may be the two-tone paint job. On a retiree's fixed income that may be a bit pricey.

 

Just GM's way of offering a price break to us tired old veterans!

 

this is really a problem.
I painted my Swift in two tones after the accident. Car damaged muzzle. Repairing and painting with no options. Why not do something that has long planned?
Added a bit of money and ordered a painting of additional body parts. Wholesale purchase - always cheaper. Besides, I turned to the repair shop of my good friend. Repair shop is located far outside the city. In the repair shop working Muslims - illegal immigrants. All these factors are very reduced price. As a result, the circular painting of the car and repair / replacement of broken panels totaled 65,000 rubles (2,200 dollars).
For comparison - the same job in the repair shop the dealer would have cost not less than 120 000 rubles (4000 dollars). And that - as for the exclusive client. Man Who Came in from the street pays more.
I am not aware of the practice of pricing in the U.S.. But perhaps my experience is useful to you.
If you have no friends - auto mechanics, such friends are at your friends.
Talk to the police operatives. They are "under the hood" a lot of semi-legal garages. Hijackers - great masters and works quickly. In our area say: what's good for the Russian, then death for the Germans. The term "Germans" in this case refer to all foreigners. Therefore, if this advice is suitable for law-abiding citizen.

 

No offense to geg, but reading these posts sounds like a script to some 50's Cold War spy thriller.LOL. Anybody else get a chuckle out of this?
Again,no offense meant. Two cultures,two languages--such a difference.

 

I'm still wondering how the simple news of my new car took this exciting turn! Anyway...I'm looking for my local police operatives, but as a person of German extraction they may be looking for me first!

 

Well it's a Panel, so you have to expect more attention !!!!!

 

Of course, I'm not offended. You're absolutely right. Life is life, as they say.
What happened in Chicago in 50 years - for you only a Hollywood script. In Ekaterinburg 10 years ago you could go to the bakery and did not return home because it was a random bullet in the stomach.
No reason for pride. To the real law-based society we are very far away.

 

Shall you German?
how interesting is developing our communication