To Stripe or not To Stripe

[smytje]

I have a problem...

Whilst the car was being worked on earlier this year, there was a spillage on the bonnet (thankfully smack in the centre) that caused damage to paintwork.. Oddly, just the bonnet, seemingly the paint on the bumper was not affected.. The garage were quick to put their hands up and have offered to fix the problem, rightfully so, at no cost.. but I need to make a decision:

a) The original colour of the car was Irish Green but in the late 90's was resprayed Light Ivory - or rather, an interpretation of Light Ivory. If I respray the bonnet the official Light Ivory, the colours are unlikely to match - although the garage claim that they can do their best.

b) I can put a stripe down the centre of the car.. and I am open to suggestions.. I want to keep the pure classic feel of the car intact.. it is a 911T with not a lot of poke - i.e. don't want to make it look like I have painted go-faster stripes on it! (one thought I had was a centre stripe in Irish Green - true to the original colour of the car... and might look quite nice? What does everyone think about stripes.. one singular fat stripe? or one fat with two thin stripes on either side?

c) the long-winded (2-3week) process would be for the garage to take my fuel cap and ask a paint firm to replicate the colour.. but I am not necessarily keen on not having the car for another month or so.. and see this option as not particularly attractive..

So, to stripe or not to stripe - what do you think?

Jeremy

[left4dead]

I had thought of stripes in the original Irish Green before I got to the part where you mention it yourself. In a similar design to Mike's (Mycar) & Keith's (KS) would be my choice.

[misteralz]

Thick Irish green stripe, 10mm wide irish green stripe either side of it. I'd be tempted to just do the bonnet and scuttle, leaving the roof and rear end as they are.

[smytje]

Thanks guys - I think I am onto something with the Irish Green stripe (in fact I just PM'd Chris Jury to see if he is willing to mock up a few images)..

[left4dead]

A class stripe:

[210bhp]

If you want to keep the two ivory colours apart i.e. bonnet and wings, you could do the bonnet Irish green with a centre stripe(s) like Keiths in the ivory. You could carry that theme onto the scuttle and the front bumper.

Regards
Mike

Edit, you could leave the underside of the bonnet ivory to match the rest of the interior and the wings when it is in the upright position. They only need to concentrate on painting a good job on the exterior.

[mycar]

Stripe it.

If you have it done in vinyl it needn't cost a lot and you can peel them off anytime you like.

If you have suitable photos of your car, perhaps someone her would kindly photoshop some stripes for you.

They did for me......

http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... lit=bl00dy

Regards, Mike.

[smytje]

Thanks Mike and Mike - great input.

Chris has very kindly agreed to try to create his magic at some point over this weekend (highly appreciated) in the meantime if anyone has the urge, here are two photos of the car that might help:




The garage is suggesting that the stripes might look better on the bonnet and the engine lid only - I am confused

Thanks, Jeremy

[mycar]

Further reading...

http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums ... ht=stripes

Mike.

[hot66]

stripes


http://www.paul-stephens.com/Porsche-91 ... ed/car3919

[yoda]

I would suggest getting the bonnet painted to match the rest of the car and putting stripes on it in vinyl. That way, the car is all in the same colour and if / when you get bored of the strip you can remove it or change it with very little effort or expense.

Your car looks lovely in the pictures as it is and it would be a shame to add a stripe to cover up a mistake that the garage is happy to rectify. Surprised you would need to be without the car for 3 weeks to colour match the paint, must be a quicker way to do it.

Just my 2p.

Feroz

[Codfather]

I would agree that just the bonnet and lid should be done if you go down that route, but how about getting the whole bonnet wrapped in Matt black in the meantime.
Cheers
Dave

[964RS]

Depends if you really want the 'hot rod' type look or just see it as a way to get round this problem?

If you don't REALLY want your car too look like a hot rod (personally I think it looks great without the stripe) then I'd really consider just getting it done properly. Do they actually need your car while the paint is being matched??

I'm a big fan of hot rod look cars.....but on hot rods

[Bootsy]

I love a stripe or two but with Jason on this one. They should be able to match the paint and spray it for you in a lot less than 3 weeks

Ask yourself - before the paint damage were you going to stripe it? If the answers no then don't compromise now, get it back to how it was before.

[jury]

Not trying to get out of any work

But I do agree that the car already looks great, and if the garage has said that they will sort the paint problem then I would get it done...it would solve a whole load of potential problems (and lost profit) if you wanted to sell in the future.

By all means, vinyl stripes can be added, but it makes sense to do this only once the paint damage has been fixed.


Cheers
Chris