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View Poll Results: Tacky or cool?
Tri-colored 8 20.00%
Basic(1 solid color) 30 75.00%
Don't paint 3 7.50%
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Old 12-04-2014, 07:07 PM   #1
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Would be a nice intermediate step, right after the illuminated oversized spoiler and before getting around to wiring up the underbody neon glow lights

Seriously, its your car, so whatever floats your boat, but unless your friends all have rotating seasonal decorations on their mailboxes, they may be more impressed by the effort than by the result.

But hey, my father once had to talk me out of blacking out the grill of a 1972 Oldsmobile (for a more sophisticated european look) so whadoIknow...
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Old 12-04-2014, 10:01 PM   #2
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I prefer one solid color as red or maybe yellow, otherwise it's too busy on the eyes.
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Old 12-04-2014, 11:38 PM   #3
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The shop right next to my indy does plating and all....

I constantly get bullied by these dudes about my yellow calipers on my red boxster :/ "Nice piss yellow calipers they say.... yellow is reserved for school buses, no?!" etc etc.... I've heard it all from them lol

They want to take them off my car, strip them in chem and nickel plating them so they can have a picture of their retrofit service for Porsche calipers on their website. They'll do it for free.... including the PORSCHE lettering paint job. What do you think of this idea? They'll look just those on the pic below.... kinda titanium looking.



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Old 12-05-2014, 02:52 AM   #4
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I like the looks of the nickel plating.

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Old 12-05-2014, 04:38 AM   #5
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all good ideas. the Italian colors on a german car, I think not! I painted my ruby red with white lettering. its kinda standard but the car is arctic silver and boxster red interior, I like the "old school" look. the nickel plating is a cool idea but not sure if it "pops" through the wheel spokes like a bright color. tacky? no, we love our cars and painting calipers is just another way of personalizing them.
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