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i'm lost...what stripes do u like?

LOL, any stripes as long as they dont take attention away from the car itself, only add to it!

wish mine would come up better in photos, but the gold pearl just doesn't for some reason!

Sorry, a bit off the topic, what is the type/name of the front bar on the 33 GTSt (silver with the grey stripes) RRAGE posted? Damn that front bar is sexy!

i wouldn't mind knowing what those skirts are either...

black does look superb...when it's clean. :( Trouble is, keeping it clean - I was constantly washing and waxing my black R33  :(

true that! spent heaps of time on mine when it was black.. but it would only stay clean for about an hour :)

i love the limited edition midnight purple II on R34 GTR's. Its sorta chameleon gold to dark purple... looks nuts.

Also like subtle shade differences in decals eg If I had a silver car I'd choose a decal that was 20% darker than that. with black cars the reverse applies, 20% lighter.

I hate stripes on cars that aren't meant to have stripes, ie most jap cars. Stripes are a heritage thing, moderna's have stripes, mustangs have stripes, they're meant to be earnt by heritage and class. Smack a stripe on a honda and it looks out of place.

Subtlety is the best design feature ever. I also go ga-ga for deep black paintjobs that are uber shiney n glossy that it looks like glass.

I'll pay that... the mines stripe or the nismo stripe (or even the winfield stripe) is heritage... but they're stripes down the top of the side panels, or drift stripes as they are known now (since most major tuners in japan have their stipe colour schemes) from mines to jun to signal...

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