Stripes

I was just curious if anyone had any good pictures of our cars (with slight emphasis on montegos) with stripes.

Don't like the color but here are some hood stripes.

Edited by Dan the ranchero man - 16-November-2013 at 11:08AM

hood stripes?

pdw72 wrote: I like the Chrome trim on the Cougar Dan, the Green on the Montego is ok but the  but a different color for the stripe.

The second photo is a 73 Montego (white car). I know the 74-76 cougars look almost identical.

Dan the ranchero man wrote: pdw72 wrote: I like the Chrome trim on the Cougar Dan, the Green on the Montego is ok but the  but a different color for the stripe. The second photo is a 73 Montego (white car). I know the 74-76 cougars look almost identical.

One question...
WTF?


I can almost...almost..understand the green, but this...
Couldn't Doc Brown Jr. find a DeLorean???


Edited by Big Bird - 17-November-2013 at 1:35AM

Yea. I said that sounds like a move i would make letting it sit until i can figure out what color i want. then once i figure that out i can tell who ever paints it if i want stripes or not. I was looking at pearl white now I'm looking at different blacks and grays with different stripes. Who knows might have it painted like one of Alex's hot wheels...

Beautiful color. It would look great like that.

everytime I click on this forum, I expect to read a critique of bill murray and harold ramis.

Boy, I really like that blue one as-is. Clean and understated but gets the job done. Not a big fan of the yellow car's scheme. Seeing that flat black on the lowers reminds me of folks that cover up rust with black paint and hope you buy it before noticing.

I will probably go with the blue, but what do you think of the hood stripe.  Its hard to see.  How do you think a flat black hood stripe would look (like the gray one above on the blue monty).  And possibly a black pinstripe down the side similar to the yellow one. (although I am just using the yellow one as an example for the pinstripe.  Just pretend it is on blue.)  I don't really want the stripes to stand out too much (hence the black on blue, or something similar.)  I just want it to have a subtle look about it.

I'm thinking about doing black with black cherry stripe on the hood of my cougar

it's hard to describe what pearl looks like, it shows up best over black, dark blue or dark maroon (like that black cherry) paint. basically you don't see it until you look at it at a different angle in the sun or bright light, does that make sense? some people have pearl flames painted on their car so that it is real subtle (you can't see it until the light hits it just right, you may hear people refer to them as "ghost flames " that effect is pearl if you seen something like that.
 hope that helps.  do you have an automotive paint supply store near you? many times they may have small panels painted for display that you could look at.

californiajohnny wrote: it's hard to describe what pearl looks like, it shows up best over black, dark blue or dark maroon (like that black cherry) paint. basically you don't see it until you look at it at a different angle in the sun or bright light, does that make sense? some people have pearl flames painted on their car so that it is real subtle (you can't see it until the light hits it just right, you may hear people refer to them as "ghost flames " that effect is pearl if you seen something like that.  hope that helps.  do you have an automotive paint supply store near you? many times they may have small panels painted for display that you could look at.

yes, thats a good example you found, lots of time what you can see is hard to photograph or to see in the photo. (nice looking firebird- i believe it's a 71 or 72)