Decided to paint the hood

[Mugen]

Yeah, I decided to switch up that old faded hood, with some nice looking flat black "truck bed liner" it worked great. My dad had painted his motorcycle with it so I decided what the hell. I was bored. Just wanted to know what you guys think.

The paint:


A little close up of the hood:


The hood:


As you can see the car is pretty faded.. just thought this would look a little nicer let me know what you think.

[RobMilkshakes]

Wow, I'm surprised at how well that turned out. Looks much better than most's basic flat black primer look.

good job

[Donald]

Do the headlight covers too.

[Mugen]

Thanks I like it too, as for the headlight covers I like the look of the red next to the black I was just going to respray them red..

[jungobaez]

I need to do the same thing on mine.

[freakinbox]

I did mind flat black as well, after all the years of stones hitting the front I figured it would be easier to touch up than red paint when it happened again.

[midnightmach]

Originally Posted by Donald

Do the headlight covers too.

+1

looks good though

[Ghostyman]

I'm going to be the one guy who doesn't like it.

Black hoods, in my mind, are the refuge of people who wish they had carbon fiber hoods but can't afford them. Or Initial D fans. Either way, I'm not big on 'em.

But if you like it, that's all that matters.


EDIT: I prefer painted headlight covers with the stock hood:

[Mugen]

Originally Posted by Ghostyman

I'm going to be the one guy who doesn't like it.

Black hoods, in my mind, are the refuge of people who wish they had carbon fiber hoods but can't afford them. Or Initial D fans. Either way, I'm not big on 'em.

But if you like it, that's all that matters.


EDIT: I prefer painted headlight covers with the stock hood:

lol to each his own right? Im not trying to make it look carbon fiber i figured it would look better than a faded ass burnt red hood haha

[Ghostyman]

Yep, to each their own. And from the large numbers of black hooded cars I see around here, I'm in the minority.

Question about that bed liner: does it go on smooth or is it a rough texture? Looks textured from the pics.

[PhatRoyale]

Looks good.

Now you gotta do the rest of the car.

[freakinbox]

I disagree with the carbon fiber hood comment as well. As I said earlier I did mine black because the shape of the coupe hood allows for a lot of stones to hit it head on which takes paint off, flat black is just easier to touch up.

Besides the idea behind the flat black hood comes well before people were using carbon fiber hoods. They did it because it a lot of the older cars you could see most of the hood and could get glare off of it from the sun and such. Flat black got rid of the glare.

[Mugen]

Originally Posted by Ghostyman

Yep, to each their own. And from the large numbers of black hooded cars I see around here, I'm in the minority.

Question about that bed liner: does it go on smooth or is it a rough texture? Looks textured from the pics.

It's more of a rough texture, i'm going to do another coat because there are some streaks on it.. I only did 2 coats but yeah I think i'm gonna end up doing the whole car. But the "paint" costs almost $10.00 a can!!!!

[derekc23]

I like it - very functional and easy to maintain.

[freakinbox]

yeah being truck bed liner chances are there won't be any maintaining as for patching if rocks hit it lol