quote:Originally posted by accobra:
Doug ...thanks so far its a semi gloss black hood and decklid ... i;m thinking the border will end like a boss 302 hood ... with a red border and pin stripe rather then it looking like you put black hood and deck off another car ... then semi gloss black wheels ? the bottom black .. I;m going to take davids advice and wait and see how it looks assembled ... thanks Dave.
I tossed around this idea on a red car also.
One of the things I considered was painting the center of the car black in a way that when you look down on the car it appears a a single black racing stripe.
In order to keep the edges straight you need to leave red on the edges of everything.
If you think about what you just wrote, it sounds very much like what I was thinking?
It doesn't really function like the traditional racing stripe did, in the sense that the stripes pointed the way to go to the driver if he got disoriented under stress, like if he spun the car.
The g-forces act on your head in such a way that it is a dizzying feeling. The stripes actually help in that way.
In my car because of the lowered floor pans I look down the hood in a way where I would have to strech my neck up just in order to see the stripes, so they really wouldn't help the driver out much.
That means that the blacked out treatment really is for cosmetic effect and undeniably a dramatic one at that.
I can't say that the blackened hood would actually reduce glare under a very bright sunlight perspective? Others would need to advise on that subject. I think semi-gloss might be too reflective for that though?
As I said, I really like red/black combo on the Pantera and I feel it is completely in character with the car. Others I'm sure have different opinions.