Im thinking about getting matte black stripes on just my hood. Right where the ram air ducts are. I am not getting the whol car striped becasue matching the stripes with the spacing on the hood would look odd on the whole car, and putting them too close on the hood would look odd. I was wondering what everyone thought. Should I leave it as is? Or get the matte balck stripes?

 

aslo if anyone has pics of this hood striped. That would be great

 

Tough call. I think it would look good, but I'm not sure if your car needs it. Even w/ the matte black, you might be approaching the overdone look. Right now it's nice, clean black.

If you go w/ the matte black, I think removing your hood pins and spraying them w/ a matte black would give it a nice look without being over the top.

 

John I was actually thinking the same thing. That right now it look clean and pulled together, and that the stripes might disrupt that and make it look overdone, but than again matte black is subtle and might add to it.

 

Yeah, after thinking about it, I think the matte stripes and painting the hoodpins matte black would look good.

 

As someone who has matte black on a black car, I don't think I would do it in your case. I find the stripes on the hood like yours to be wrong somehow to my eye. Not to offend anyone who has them, but I don't care for the spacing that develops between them when they are done behind the inlets. You are very right that it looks even more out of place on the rest of the car, but it just doesn't seem right on that hood. However if you do stripes, get some vinyl matte black ones from BSM, throw them on the hood for a while and see what you think. It won't cost much, and you'll quickly decide if you like them.

 

I think it looks great the way it is.

 

That's what I'm going to do with my California Dream Hood. Ours would basically look the same!

I have a relative of mine working on a custom grill, if I like the way it turns out, I'll be paiting that matte black as well to tie in with the theme (as well as the lower grill). If I don't like the way it turns out, I'm doing the black billet bar grill from Shelby, it's not a shiny black, it's a matte black, so it will still work ok (as well as the black lower billet bar grill for the GT/CS).

Go for it! I should be doing mine in the next couple of months. I have a couple more things to buy before I do all this.

 

Go for it! I've never seen a black matt striped Stang look bad. Especially The Black Jack Roush.

One thing as mentioned, your Stang really looks good the way it is.The body lines on the body really shift and flip the paint nicely.

 

Maybe try the matte black on the section of the hood behind the vents?

 

yeah that is wearing i was saying that part of the hood that already has the lines behind the vents.

 

see i know that black matte on black cars always looks godo, but seems the general consensus seems to be the car is good the way it is.

 

If in doubt, don't spend the money, and don't do it unless you're sure.

 

Maybe this will help.

 

No..

 

randy thanks for that but now im even more torn lol. If it isnt too much trouble i was wondering if you could make another pic where the stripes go all the way. Instead of just stopping behind the vents, also if it is at all possible for you too add the stripes to one of the other pics that would be really great. thanks alot either way.

 

No!!! It looks good as is!

 

yeah thanks alot everyone. I think the im gonna go the route if it aint broke dont fix it. Everyone seems to tell me to leave ti alone, and i tend to agree.

 

It really does look great just the way it is.

 

Thanks Gary. I appreciate the compliment