That started life with a Diamonds are Forever-type exterior - no black stripes, and no hood blackout; hence the side moldings.
However, most molding-equipped cars are painted
up to the molding, where the paint transitions from the blackout to the main color. This is the correct appearance, even if the stripes are incorrectly added later. The striped look over the moldings looks awkward, but does not look obnoxiously incorrect.
On the other hand, whoever did this mess went ahead and painted the lower body blackout treatment
past the molding line, in order to add the pinstripe transition used exclusively on the striped cars. That's fine - if it did not have the molding. You can't have both and expect it to look good. Whoever shot this thing didn't understand that bit of simplicity in logic:
Stripes aren't terminated at the rear either (tacky beyond words) and the taillight panel hasn't been blacked out behind the honeycomb at the taillamps:
Exhaust sits too deep.
Too bad, as it looks to be a half-decent refurb. Certainly not a $35k car - not even if flawless and done correctly. Maybe $20k if it were a toploader car done perfectly. Easy $12k if correct, but what I see is a $8k car made to look like a $12k car with a $2k paint job, which will probably sell for $10k. So much for that $2k paint job adding any value.
And since were at it, I might as well vent: What do stripe-on-molding folks have against grinding the molding studs off when doing a strip-and-repaint? If they're going to buck originality by plastering the non-original stripes on the car, why not do it right and get rid of the molding too?
-Kurt
