How would it look with painted moldings?

[Jpluck09]

Soo its tax time and im getting ready to repair all the dings and straightn my car up. Of course that means fixing the 1/4 panels. After i get all that done i am going to paint the car a WRX blue or maybe a red. But my question is how do you guys think the car would look if i either striped it of the 4 door moldings and flattened it out or just painted over them? Also would it look goofie if you paint over the rocker gards/stock side skirts?
JosH

[LouieD]

Monochromatic is cool, but I think it really needs to be done right, so it dosen't look like you just didn't mask anything and sprayed the whole car. I think the age/design of the body style warrants some contrast. Special care has to be given to the rubber moldings so the paint sticks to them properly. Painted moldings are cool until some careless person whacks them in a parking lot and they start to chip. I think painted rocker and the lips make the car look closer to the ground.
Good luck.

[Jpluck09]

Lol. I dont gotta worry about other people hitting me i gotta worry about hitting people haha. Thats some good stuff tho if it makes it look lower, i cant really afford to drop it, my roads are horrable. Thanks for the advice, ill be getting with a painter/mentor after i get my tax check.

[k-mart]

Keep the lips and skirts black.

[Zenzanon]

I think it really depends on the color. It would be a pretty quick and easy PS job to see how it would look.

I personally like white cb7s with painted moldings. Here's mine (hadn't painted the back bumper moldings yet).

[JoshM]

Is this a trick question?
It'd look the same, just color-matched instead of black.



As for shaving the moldings, I think only a certain few on this forum can pull them off. I'm not a big fan, but it CAN look good. It's your car, do what you want.

[(406)cb7]

I like the look of the painted moldings, alot cleaner I think.

[93SM4_CB7]

i think the sides painted the same would look nice.. just look @ a 10th ann cb7

[93F22A6]

I vote for color matched moldings. White CB's do look best with color matched. If you go for a dark red keep them black, if you go blue then color match them.

[JaK FRoSTWhiTE]

I like the painted moldings on the 10th Anniversary.
But theres something about them that makes me not want to go forth with the look.
To me, it kinda makes the CB look like a Camry

[Night Wolf]

^^^ lol never thought of it like that

[lowridergttrike]

i think you should leave them chrome cuz they amke the cb's paint pop better

[CaioCK]

I like the painted moldings, and also the side skirts

I don't have any CB7 pics, but about the side skirts:

[trubluryder]

From my opinion, its looks much better painted. But just a heads up, overtime, the paint will start chipping if not prepped right...So prep the moldings well

[ikayto]

different strokes for different folk! I think both have their own appeals. Unpainted looks more rugged while painted looks more uniform and sleek. I like painted moldings on custom colored cars.