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what do you think?

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opinions please

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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Reply #2 –
Black would look good, but best of all would be painting the header panel.

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Reply #3 –
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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Reply #4 –
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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Reply #5 –
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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Reply #6 –
id keep it silver
It's Gumby's fault.

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Reply #7 –
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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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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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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Reply #10 –
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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Reply #11 –
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



i cant find any other pics to show what i mean, but do everything you can body color, and then do the stripes
It's Gumby's fault.

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Reply #12 –
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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Reply #13 –
Quote from: 88turbo
I wanted to leave the header alone  :hick:


Good Lord! That should be your first priority.

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Reply #14 –
Racing stipes always makes me think the car sneezed while going down the road.

I would just get the car painted one solid color.