Need an opinion - stripes or no stripes
 

Hi,

I need an opinion. I saw the car in the picture with the Porsche Design stripes and really liked it. I found someone on eBay who sold me the stripes.
My car is seal grey and the stripes I have are like a dark gun metal (darker than seal grey but lighter than black).

Unfortunately my Photoshop skills are not good enough so you guys need to use your imagination.

Will this look good or does it look "rice"?

I love stripes. I like more contrast but stripes are great. I'll likely add striping to mine this Spring. Your photoshop work is fine. If I do it I'll go with these in metallic gold.

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...Crain/mini.jpg

not rice at all ...

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nice, go for it, it will be unique for sure.

If you don't like it, it shouldn't be too hard to peel them off... sounds good, though.

My opinion? I'm a less is more kind of guy. Leave the stripes to the Mustangs, Camaros and Chevelles.

I think stripes on a Porsche are not classy and very tacky

I don't like them on the spyder and God what they did to the GT3 looks like they just let a child in there with a crayon, especially the fender graphics, way too much GT3 plaster. If you do go with stripes make your decision on whether to keep them as quickly as you can, otherwise you may see a fade difference in the paint. For me, anything that creates another wax trap is not a good addition.

I'm a plain and simple guy, though I did paint my S logo red. The Boxster has very clean lines, which do not need stripes to make it it attractive.

Let's not gild the lily .

Personally, I'm not a bid fan of stripes on most cars, but I'm not going to tell you that this looks bad. It doesn't look bad, I'm just not a fan of it.

Now to me that looks like the original color of the stripes in that picture you supplied. Did you actualy photoshop those slightly darker or did "use your imagination" mean "darken them in your own mind"? If they're much darker than that I'd really have to see them. I think the original stripe color is subtle enough to look nice without being like a silver car with a neon orange stripe, but if it's darker than what's in the picture I'm not so sure it will look as good.

Quick clarification:
The picture I posted is not photoshopped and is just for reference
My car is a MY 2002 and is seal grey and the stripes a charcoal
So you need to use your imagination

Thanks for all the comments so far, looks like I have a "hung jury" at the moment :dance:

Imho
 

I put stripes on my Galaxie when I was sixteen. But, I'm over it now. Just not a fan of stripes on a Porsche.

I'm not sure I like the hood stripe, unless it continues through the roof (which is of course sort of tough to pull off with the rag-top).

I like variations, I say go for it.

If you look at the parking lot of a Porsche dealership these days all the cars are the colors of mens burbury raincoats. Pretty dull and gloomy, afraid to make a statement.

Lambos are all florescent and neon and ferrari is the color of fire trucks and police cars.

Porsche in the racing world is bright and in your face. I can't tell you how many porsche owners say to me "I wish I'd gotten the yellow one, I wimped out".

Life is short, make a statement and if it is all wrong then you can retract it later but at least you are better for it.

Put them on. If you don't like it, remove them. Look at all the wheels and colors out there. Everyones taste varies.

No stripes. Even my friend's Superformance Cobra don't have them.

stripes give the appearance of motion (even when standing still). not good if you're trying to convince the nice police officer that you weren't speeding during your daily commute to work. excellent, however, if you are trying to convince that 911 to get out of your way on the track.

you race a lot; get stripes, go fast.

Sinc the car is Seal Grey I figure the darker stripes will work better than on Arctic or GT Silver. It'd probably be like a darker version overall of the car pictured above.

I'm curious to see what the result would look like.

Or to the Ford Transit sport van... :barf:

i personally like how porsche did the black sport design models - metallic black with matte black stripes. it only has stripes if you know it has stripes. you could do something similar with the seal gray - just get a matte gray stripe (or anthritite or some such).

I had a Seal Grey Boxster and had matte-black side stripes on it. It looked great on the grey. Matte-black hood stripes on the Seal would, I believe, look great as well. So would silver, gold, yellow, black... whatever you like. Like stated above, if you don't like them, they come off in minutes. Be brave little soldier. With half of the Porsches out there being grey or silver, I would look for something different if I still had a grey one.

That's probably how it will come out
So I hope I'll find the time to put the decals on this weekend and then I'll post a few pictures

Really? .......... Think again. Porsche had stripes in the late 60's. Before most others.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes8.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes9.jpg
TACKY? Sorry, I think you're wrong. You may not like them. But not classy? Nope, quite the opposite.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...in/stripe3.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes5.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes6.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...in/stripes.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes1.jpg
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...n/stripes4.jpg

Put em on...should look very subtle.

I'm a fan of - do what you like. If you want your Boxster to look different than every other Seal Grey on the road, have at it. It's all reversible. I would never change my suspension or supercharge but other's do. Your car, your call.

Excellent point Milehighboxster,

People think that Pcars have no history of using graphics and stripes. Ferry Porsche's personal 2.7 had door graphics.

Stripes, decals, etc. require the use of good taste. Which of course many do not have. :)

I thought about doing a satin black wrap once some body work issues are worked out. A very tone down stripe like on the 4.0 GT3 would look nice. I don't care if it grabs too much attention since its just inexpensive vinyl (relative to the cost of painting) you can just rip off off after a month. You shouldn't be afraid to take chances now that vinyl products have made it inexepsive and temporary.

http://image.motortrend.com/f/331392...-front-end.jpg

Hi everyone

thank you all for sharing your opinion.
Here's my update: So, the problem kind-a solved itself today when I learned the hard way that applying large vinyl decals is NOT one of my strong parts :(
Not only did I do a really bad job in applying the stripes, when they were finally on, I didn't like the look at all, so I quickly tore the vinyl off (and also learned that vinyl decals and 3M clear bra don't go well together)

So, no stripes it is!

Chris, you did wet the hood down FIRST, before applying the stripes. You can slide them around until you get them right where you want them, then squeegee out the water and allow them to dry.