lawl, you want a show car yet you go with the F(lame) and boring chrome handles. Shave your doors!
Here is a pic of a shaved door, and the door is opened by pnuematics and a little remote. There also make shaved door handle kits with little pads that you can press to open the door-the overhaulin crew did this to a vehicle iirc.
bag it, shave the handles, fiberglass work, or if it is going to be in an audio competition or if it is going to be rated based on the stereo, add another 1000/1 or upgrade the highs/mids and put an amp on them.
airbrush a paint scheme on the outside, follow it inside perhaps...wrap the interior in suede...wild fiberglassin, tv's in pillars...wild center console or something
just a few ideas, $1300 don't get ya very far tho unfortunately
how would that be 1300? thats quite alot for just neons exhaust and an intake...
i say go for a nice suede headliner, and some suede accents on the doors and dash, and get the seats recovered in leather/suede. the headliner and accents you can prally do yourself if your patient, i did mine in my explorer, and the suede was 20/yard at Jo-Ann's fabric store, but if u wait for coupons in the newspaper, u can get it at quite a steal, i only paid 7.50 a yard, so i bought a ton of it since i got it for so cheap.
the seats would be the most tho, u can prally get the katskin covers for like 700-1000 i think maybe....and i know theres write-ups online that show u how to install them. if u go that way let me know and i can get u the write up.