When I get my car painted at Maaco next week, I was thinking of asking them to paint over the black that is there now. Its getting faded and looks like crap. I had told Maaco I wanted it masked off. I think it would look pretty good all bright red like the RS versions had. What do you guys think?

 

i wouldnt. Thats one of the things I love, a nice red IROC wearing "eye shadow". I think it looks bad ***....

 

I agree, leave it black. I just taped off the surrounding areas and repainted it with spray paint, looked a lot better.

 

Yea, deff. leave it black from a little color scheme
Aj

 

really!

 

No Way would I do that! I like the Red and black on my car. Those two colors go are bad *** together.

 

It's an '89 RS, it's supposed to be like that. The IROCs look just fine with black, but mine is just stock..and I like it.

 

Definetly paint the headlight pockets. Red and black is incredible, and it is an IROC-Z.

 

something like this?

 

Do you mean it should have black pockets because it's an IROC-Z; or it's not an IROC, it's an IROC-Z. Just being pendantic...

 

I just wanna say..........

LOL Its an IROC-Z, it should have the headlight pockets like the way they were intended, it looks great also. Probably why they did that to them.

 

keep them black

 

my advice is to not get it painted at maaco. You will save cash now, but it will be pealing in a few years.

 

Is this your own personal experience? My father has had half a dozen cars done there and never had a problem... All of them came out great and lasted the test of time.

 

ok you guys are gonna think I'm crazy for this, but I'd definetly go with red, two of my friends have red irocs with black headlight areas, and I don't like them, another friend has a blue 91 Z with black, and that is worse yet

actually, dark red + black = good
lighter red + black = not my taste



I'm a car show judge at a fairly big show, and I've seen some bad thirdgens, the main thing is that if it the colors go together nice and it looks good, then it good

one of the ugliest cars I've judged was a late 80s camaro that was "speckle painted" it had blue, green, and metal (gray/silver) with black head light pockets, talk about ugly

 

go with red, it looks way better. here is a pic of mine.

 

I have to say that does look good. That is an exact replica of my car except my wheels are the newer style and my door stickers are towards the rear. Its a tough decision.... I'm also not putting on the stripes again. I think the red irocs look better without stripes.

 

No way!! Looks like an RS or an undone IROC-Z, they look better stock and correct, gotta have the stripes too.

http://iroc-z.com/1987pages/1987gallery/1987pic55.htm
http://iroc-z.com/1990pages/1990gallery/1990pic8.htm

 

Keep them black. If they are faded, have them repaint them black, but not red.