What I did the last 3 months ... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

batshapedheart · 09-03-2013, 04:59 PM

As a straight guy who owns a pair of hot pink jeans, I think you are not done. You have too many colors going on, the black, the gray, the hot pink and then the red of the tailights...too much stuff going on. Stick to 3 colors at most. maybe you could consider doing the car only black and hot pink accents? There's some Dectane tailights that are all black too.
I bet if you mention it to your girl she will concur.
And is that the brushed titanium emblem logo on the hood? Awesome detail.

At the end of the day, we're all here just having fun with our cars, in different ways and manners, so, as long as they're not abusive, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and, isn't that part of the reason you posted the pics here?

Regards

Ian c · 09-03-2013, 05:20 PM

The idea was to do my usual style ...
Like I said earlier , I'm a cal-look guy

I believe the American h20 guys call it OEM+ , which you may be more familiar with ??

Subtle mods using factory parts from another model or sister brand , or aftermarket parts that look "factory" ...
Or subtle things that have owners of the same car either do not notice , or ask questions like somebody did earlier about the side skirts I fitted .

THAT is a result to me !!
And you noticing the hood badge is a result to me too

The wheels kind of take away from all the work going on with this car and draw people's attention away from the mods done .

This is not a new thing .
I am European , and this has been going on for years over there .
It started off with race teams using different colored wheels for different tyre compounds and treads .... Some even tricking competitors by changing wheel colours mid race or mid season

It's not my usual style , but definitely growing on me .
Especially among the sea of chromed and blacked out rims on every car in SoCal

With regards to the tail-lights being red , there is not much I am prepared to do about that .
Every aftermarket option I have seen looks far inferior to Porsches own 2003 lights fitted ( though they too have had a subtle mod)