Opinions and thoughts on painting the roof..
 

I am pretty much dead set on painting the roof and hood vents. RTR Decklid should be here today (will be color matched). Tossing around the idea of painting the interior pieces as well.

I was sold on gloss black. Then Lava Red caught my attention. Looks black with the exception of certain angles. I don't think I have ever seen Lava Red in person, and some of these pictures are hard to judge.

The car is Performance White. What are your thoughts?

You should consider having the roof wrapped to see if you like it it or not first. If not it's easy enough to pull off to try another color.

So your going to get the RTR deck lid and paint it white, then you want to paint the roof and vents black? If your going to paint the roof and vents black I say leave the RTR black if your going to paint that white I say leave the others white

You will save yourself time and money if you do a wrap plus not take away from the cars original color.

Would try the wrap first, sounds like you got a lot of ideas rolling around. My vote would be to give the Lava red a shot it would be different and think it would look good.

I hate the middle section being black. If anything the RTR will go white, and I will tint the tails to bring the black together. Doing a Boss difuser in the rear will also help tie it together.

I would try the wrap but I do not think they make it in Lava red. I guess what's in question here is the Lava Red or Black. I am 100% decided on painting the roof.

I have a buddy that wraps cars for a living. If the color exsist they can print it. They will charge a lil bit extra for printing a color they don't typically carry.

You have a '13/'14 GT, correct? THe black panel ties the tail lights in nicely with the rest of the car. Ford did a good job on that. Without the black trunk panel, it looks weird.

Yeah, and his car I feel the same way about.

I don't think it looks bad Painted but I think it would if you paint the roof black and the deck lid white

wrap it, Avery and 3M make various reds or it can be printed.

If you like the roof to be different go paint. Vinyls can scratch and can't polish. Paint it right, you can always wax and polish the paint to look great IMO. For the vents, you can go paint or hydro dipped. May even be able to hydro dip the trunk panel also. I think it has a better finish than vinyl.

I got so many compliments on my old car with the black painted roof. I say do it!!! Looks good

Just get the glass roof it looks beautiful, or don't screw around. . Cut the roof off and replace it with carbon fiber like BMW. Class it up!!! If neither of those things sound good to you.. wrap it.. dear god don't paint a $30,000 plus car on a whim!! If you DO like it then in 5 years you can remove the wrap and have it painted. . Better option then trying to sell a white car with red painted roof......

I am going to speak to a close friend about doing this in the next few days.

Got a quote from Pat at American Body Works to have everything taken care of. Too good of a deal to say no.

^How much?

Where?

I've been calling a place in Weatherford and they have NEVER gotten back to me about a price to wrap my roof.

I'm thinking matte/satin black ( PW car)

I prefer not to say (out of respect for him and his). Give him a call 9722214355 and I am sure he can work you up on a quote. Very fair price. My buddy 5.OH can attest. He was there and saw the .3 seconds it took for me to decide.

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And here we go...

Wow didn't know they had that body style back in 1974. Camera phones suck. When will it be done?

When he sends a telegram.

Lol. Love me some black roof. Gonna do mine when I get back to Texas.

It may not be going black..... :smoke2:

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Back in the day a friend of mine used to have a Stang that was multi-colored. We called it "The Puzzle" because it looked like a jigsaw puzzle that had been pieced together. lol

Please tell me they didn't just tape over the moldings between the roof and doors. They are removable and should be removed to pain it correctly.

You can see in the picture they removed them. Don't worry. This isn't Service King. My buddy did a full Restomod on an Impala for Tori Hunter. Do you think he is going to cut corners on one of his best friends car?

Reminds me of those ridiculous Harlequin Volkswagens.

http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/uploads/020_001.jpg

that looks like a Bill Cosby sweater on a car...ugly

I saw one of those before and thought man who would get their car repainted to look like that. Looks like VW made 264 of those, wow.

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Hmm

iPhone sucks. Good to hear.

No worries. Not trying to snap at you.

Sneak peek. Final buff tomorrow.

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Looks like it came out quite well. Final buff will do it some good too.

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