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- 1971 Mustang Mach 1 351c FMX trans and 9 inch rear end
Okay, I know some people are going to think I am speaking blasphemously, but hear me out. My Mustang is painted white and just needs the lower blackout and hood blackout done. My friend Mike manages the body shop it is at and the owner has no issue with me painting it on Saturdays when Mike is there to make sure I don't do anything stupid. Fair enough, I am not a professional and he doesn't want his shop burnt down, lol. The problem is, Mike has two nephews that are carpenters redoing his deck and will be working on that for the next five Saturdays. That means the soonest we can start working on the black-out is late July.
I have a buddy that does automotive wraps professionally for the last 25 years or so and is a master. He told me that he could wrap the lower body with the accent stripe and the hood blackout with the accent stripe in satin black for a crazy low price. He says it will come out better than paint, he can use the graphics express stencil for shape and dimensions of the hood black-out and it will be right, guaranteed. He also joked that he and his guys could install all of the other stripes and decals for me and "the stripes won't be crooked like they are on a lot of Mustangs he sees at shows" lol.
I have every confidence in him as he has done a lot of projects for me personally, besides all he has done for the car dealership that I managed for years. To mention a few projects that I have pics of, he printed a panoramic pic of Cinderella's castle for my basement window well, wrapped some Adirondack chairs that I built, and he hand-made all of the stripes on my 80 Z28 because I wanted stripes but kind of didn't want stripes. I definitely didn't want the tacky silver or gold stripes that were correct for the red car. He made the stripes out of three shades of red I picked that were close but different enough from the shade of red I painted the car, so I am confident he can do it, I am just not sure it should be done.
My question is what does everyone think of this idea? Do you think it would look okay? I am tempted, just to get it done, but not sure it will end up looking right, and then I think it's been 2 1/2 years what's six more weeks? Also, he offered to do it for me for less than I can buy the material to paint it, so that's another tempting aspect of it.
I have a buddy that does automotive wraps professionally for the last 25 years or so and is a master. He told me that he could wrap the lower body with the accent stripe and the hood blackout with the accent stripe in satin black for a crazy low price. He says it will come out better than paint, he can use the graphics express stencil for shape and dimensions of the hood black-out and it will be right, guaranteed. He also joked that he and his guys could install all of the other stripes and decals for me and "the stripes won't be crooked like they are on a lot of Mustangs he sees at shows" lol.
I have every confidence in him as he has done a lot of projects for me personally, besides all he has done for the car dealership that I managed for years. To mention a few projects that I have pics of, he printed a panoramic pic of Cinderella's castle for my basement window well, wrapped some Adirondack chairs that I built, and he hand-made all of the stripes on my 80 Z28 because I wanted stripes but kind of didn't want stripes. I definitely didn't want the tacky silver or gold stripes that were correct for the red car. He made the stripes out of three shades of red I picked that were close but different enough from the shade of red I painted the car, so I am confident he can do it, I am just not sure it should be done.
My question is what does everyone think of this idea? Do you think it would look okay? I am tempted, just to get it done, but not sure it will end up looking right, and then I think it's been 2 1/2 years what's six more weeks? Also, he offered to do it for me for less than I can buy the material to paint it, so that's another tempting aspect of it.
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