Thanks for the kind comments! the car is in good nick but not as good as the pics make out.
Well...... i'm in a bit of a dilemma with the graphics! i picked a nice day, got the graphics out and roughly taped some of them on and this highlighted a problem. Not a big problem but one big enough for me to think twice about sticking them on.
The car, in my opinion, is way too "off white" to put those graphics on. It just doesn't look right to me and i can imagine you guys have been down a similar path before, you spend time and money chasing an idea only to realise half way through that it wasn't such a good idea after all and end up spending more time and money doing something completely different. Or something to that effect!
So there's now a few routes to take. Firstly i start the "Beans" route a bit earlier than i wanted to. I strip the shell, get it chemical dipped, coated, sprayed a lighter shade of white and put the graphics on.
This is where it went wrong........... Once i started to think about a respray i thought it was a bit crazy to spend all that time and money just to get a set of graphics to look right so what other colours could i try? then i thought about the "Gulf" colour scheme and ditch the graphics idea. Mmmmmm[:p]. No seriously, hear me out first!!!
first of all it will have to be done properly, not like some i've seen! Light pastel blue, orange bumpers, sills, rally spoiler and flared rally arches. The orange on the front bumper / spoiler will carry on up the bonnet, closing in to form an orange stripe which will carry on up over the roof and down to the boot / back bumper.
Maybe orange powder coated deep dish minilites? or just maybe standard. I think a low, wide TR7 in the classic Gulf colours would look very smart indeed. Unfortunately i'm not photoshop equipped so can't show a mock up but hopefully you've all got a picture in your heads as to what it'll look like. That's if i choose this route!
I think too much.
Rob.
