dctrouant1995

I am thinking about painting the corvette grand sport fender stripes on my TA. They would be the gunmetal color the ground effects are. Opinions? Anybody have close up pictures of them on a Trans Am?

iansane

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I like mine. Did them five or six years ago before the new vette GS cars. Recently enlarged them. They used to be 2.5" wide and 3/4" apart and now they're 3" wide and a full inch apart.

dctrouant1995

I like! Are yours painted on?

iansane

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Nope, some vinyl a buddy had. I just cut some strips out and slapped them on one day.

dctrouant1995

Looks good! I may do the vinyl, not sure yet. I'd like to paint em on. May get some vinyl to just see how they look

2007xl50

I would just do vinyl so if you get tired of them at some point you just pull and clean-gone that simple.

Buggy Disaster

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I ran them on my 91 camaro. I stronly reccomend plasti dip. I sprayed mine on in under an hour.


*hood is open


I left them on the car for about a month and I had alot of positive feed back. I peeled them off because I felt it didn't match the theme of the car yet. I will re apply them when I hopefully/ finally do an ls swap and run c6 Z06 wheels.

They peeled off perfectly. It didn't mess up the paint at all and left no residue. So I suggest plasti dip, and not vinyl.

navy02ws6

I'd recommend vinyl -- painted-on will likely be a dealbreaker for a lot of people when it comes time to sell. Good quality vinyl should last years, even if it's left out in the sun.

dctrouant1995

This car wont be for sale ever again. I will never get the money or time out of it that I invested. I was gonna sell it at one point, but I just doing little things here and there that I'm at the point where I am not going to sell

dctrouant1995

Also when I do small stuff like this, It really does not cost me anything because I use left over materials from doing other peoples cars. I just have to pay for paint, which I have about half a gallon of gray and I'm about to mix up half a gallon of the red just to have. I rarely use actual masking paper, most of the time I use the thrifty nickels that you can get for free So if I want to change it back to stock, it would be just as easy for me to repaint it as it is for ya'll to just pull the vinyl or plasti dip off

dctrouant1995

Buggy Disaster- what size and spacing were your stripes?

chevyboy001

i have them mines is a sticker tho in case some day i dont like it any more.

dctrouant1995

chevyboy001- what size stripe did you use?

chevyboy001

Um I don't know I ordered them of ebay just typed in gs stripe ill see if I can find a head on shot for you

chevyboy001

dctrouant1995

I like how its ran down the back of the fender a little instead of at the middle

Buggy Disaster

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I got some black construction paper and cut them out to look like GS stripes. Then I taped them onto the car with electrical tape. Then I played around with how wide and what spacing to go with.
I don't know what measurement I wen't with, but the spacing was between 1/4" and 1/2"

dctrouant1995

Alright cool, thanks. Theres another car show April 13, going to try to do them before then