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    Kind of a surprise...

    What I can tell you is it's gonna be a dark color. Which presents half my problem. I'm stuck in debate over painting with color or black on the:

    Door handles
    Mirrors
    Side moldings
    front and back bumper "moldings"
    Lip (if I put one) (front and back) (if I go black, I've gotta make the body lines of the sides somehow match up)

    Cuz if I paint it all...there's gonna be no contrast on the sides...jsut a painted side. The black side moldings won't do (just trust me) so those have to get painted. The door handle being the only black thing on the side won't look right...it'll stand out too much. Painted mirrors look better than black...but it's surrounded by black (weatherstripping, glass, and that top of hte door) and so that leaves me with adding a lip and "lip" down the side. So it's just a matter of how to make all of it come together...

    Oh, and right now I'm debating painting the windshield squirters with color or with black. Black adds contrast and will match up with the front bumper's "mouth" which will be black...but painted squirters look good...
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    If you wanna see what home depot lip looks like on front and rear here are a few pics from my hatch





    Last edited by smokeyj; 12-07-2007 at 10:45 AM.

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