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General => General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion => Topic started by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 01:29:51 AM

Poll
Question: what do you think?
Title: opinions please
Post by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 01:29:51 AM
wich looks better?  I'm thinking the gunmetal for the stripes what do you think? or should I leave it silver?
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Post by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 01:31:22 AM
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Post by: Ifixyawata on September 29, 2005, 02:46:14 AM
Black would look good, but best of all would be painting the header panel.
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Post by: 5.0willgo on September 29, 2005, 09:11:42 AM
If you really want to put stripes on the car, I kinda like the gunmetal. It's a little more subtle.
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Post by: 88SptCoupe on September 29, 2005, 09:57:38 AM
i like the gunmetal

i better say this or my dad would kill me but does racing strips really go on the top of the car? i dont mind it but he says somthing everytime someone does it so i was just wondering what you all think
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Post by: Haystack on September 29, 2005, 10:30:49 AM
I would paint the header first. Other then that I would want gun metal. I have never seen a car (street strip or track) with out the stripes on the top of the car, well unless it was a duct tape racing stripe on a civic.
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Post by: Tbird232ci on September 29, 2005, 11:04:23 AM
id keep it silver
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Post by: oldraven on September 29, 2005, 11:36:53 AM
If you're set on stripes, I'd go black to match the door/bumper moldings. You'd end up with four different colours on the car if you chose gunmetal.
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Post by: CougarSE on September 29, 2005, 11:55:11 AM
Quote from: oldraven
If you're set on stripes, I'd go black to match the door/bumper moldings. You'd end up with four different colours on the car if you chose gunmetal.


That makes alot of sense.  Our cars don't do well with busy paint.  I personally don't think these cars look all that good with strips.
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Post by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 12:07:36 PM
Quote from: 88SptCoupe
i better say this or my dad would kill me but does racing strips really go on the top of the car?


unless its a chevy,  the car should have them on top

Quote from: 88SptCoupe
Black would look good, but best of all would be painting the header panel.


I wanted to leave the header alone  :hick:
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Post by: Funky Cricket on September 29, 2005, 12:25:54 PM
leave it alone and just work on getting the rest of the paint and modlings up to snuff before worrying about stripes. and I like either two tone, or solid paint on these cars.. they don't to graphics well IMO.
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Post by: Tbird232ci on September 29, 2005, 12:36:28 PM
if you do stripes, paint your TC like i did my red bird, monochrome, then add the stripes, so you dont have a bunch of different colors and lines

(http://webpost.net/tb/Tbird232ci/Pict0019.jpg)

i cant find any other pics to show what i mean, but do everything you can body color, and then do the stripes
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Post by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 12:50:23 PM
I saw an 87-88 TC on ebay a while back that was black with yellow stripes.....looked really good but it was T-boned.
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Post by: oldraven on September 29, 2005, 01:14:27 PM
Quote from: 88turbo
I wanted to leave the header alone  :hick:


Good Lord! That should be your first priority.
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Post by: slamedcat on September 29, 2005, 01:17:15 PM
Racing stipes always makes me think the car sneezed while going down the road.

I would just get the car painted one solid color.
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Post by: 88turbo on September 29, 2005, 05:40:05 PM
Quote from: oldraven
Good Lord! That should be your first priority.


I wasnt serious.....  :rollin:
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Post by: oldraven on September 29, 2005, 06:00:07 PM
Quote from: 88turbo
I wasnt serious.....  :rollin:


Oh, good. :giggle:
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Post by: BEARMAX on September 29, 2005, 10:24:22 PM
go with the silver stripes kinda goast stripes
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Post by: vinnietbird on September 29, 2005, 11:47:46 PM
No stripes.These cars look more sinister without them.To me,these cars look like "wanna be's" with stripes,even if they have plenty of power,the striped look just doesn't fit.
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Post by: 88turbo on September 30, 2005, 07:51:11 PM
Quote from: BEARMAX
go with the silver stripes kinda goast stripes


I thought about that too..  but everyone here wants me to leave it alone
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Post by: BEARMAX on September 30, 2005, 09:38:29 PM
it 's not every one's car bro ......every man to his own
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Post by: 88turbo on September 30, 2005, 11:00:38 PM
thats true I dont know what I'm gonna do at this point
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Post by: RDOG on September 30, 2005, 11:19:05 PM
I like stripes. I was thinking of going with black on mine with thin blue outer lines to match the blue interior. I was also thinking of dual ghost striped flames.
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Post by: oldraven on October 01, 2005, 12:21:34 AM
Quote from: 88turbo
I thought about that too..  but everyone here wants me to leave it alone


We don't want you to do anything you don't want to............ :wtf:


But you asked for opinions. So ya get 'em. ;)
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Post by: 88turbo on October 01, 2005, 12:49:35 PM
thanks  :rolleyes:
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Post by: V8Demon on October 02, 2005, 05:40:41 PM
Me personally, I would not do stripes, but have you considered perhaps one sigle stripe down the middle?
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Post by: 88turbo on October 02, 2005, 09:25:06 PM
I dont think I would like the single stripe... would make it look like one of those cheap puppies cars.  I want it to look like american muscle.
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Post by: CougarSE on October 02, 2005, 11:29:10 PM
I don't know how easy it would be to pull off but if you striped it like an old Mustang it wouldn't look so bad.  The mustangs stripes were not strait they flared out to match the hood or somthing like that.  Maybe if the stripes followed the contour of the hood and then went back?  I dont know.