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View Poll Results: Mirrors and moulding in black or white?
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Looking into painting my car, what do you think?

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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 03:35 AM
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Looking into painting my car, what do you think?

I purchased my car with everything painted red, the mirrors, trim, basically everything but the glass (even the weather stripping!).

Anyway, this is the car with some of the things back to black.



When i get it resprayed, i'm looking at doing white, i'm looking for the factory color scheme back (black mirrors, black trim, door handles, etc.), i'm however stuck between wanting to do the mirrors white or black, same with the door guard moulding.

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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 03:51 AM
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keep the scheme going, make the mirrors black. if you do them white it just looks off somehow. mine used to be like that and i went back to black. just seems to work
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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 10:58 AM
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Black mirrors and moulding really sets these cars off nice. Especially with the dark background of the stock wheels, or with black center after market wheels. Tinted windows, where legal, adds a nice finishing touch.
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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 01:27 PM
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I now have tinted windows, i swapped the glass from my old Rx-7, i plan running 15" mesh wheels with gold centers, polished lip.
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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 01:53 PM
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You should really take a better pic.


I'm for white. It's very very hard to make black look good (ie get the body perfect and then a high dollar paint job)
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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 02:01 PM
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I like black cars, but white can be nice too. My preference is the silver that came on the 7. It looks nice. Keep the mirrors and moudling black. Or remove the moulding entirely.
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Old Aug 4, 2005 | 02:10 PM
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The car was origionally silver!

Then it was painted black, then red...

White is my favorite color, it makes old cars look well kept to me, even if there are flaws with the body, no other color really does that in my opinion.
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 01:12 AM
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Black 14 82.35%
White 3 17.65%

I think it's decided.
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by O 16581 72452 5
The car was origionally silver!

Then it was painted black, then red...

White is my favorite color, it makes old cars look well kept to me, even if there are flaws with the body, no other color really does that in my opinion.
yellow is another color that covers up flaws nicely thats why i dont respect it
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 08:04 PM
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i voted for black
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 11:19 PM
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take the moulding off.
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