So my car was a factory order for someone else and they ordered as stripe delete. IMO, Shelby's should have stripes. I had them put on with vinyl and they looked good but not what I wanted so I decided to have them painted on. Buried under 6 coats of clear and entire care wet sanded and buffed, looks like a mirror now. Here are some pics I took that are pretty crappy, when it is out tomorrow I will take some better ones. Let me know what you think. Some look spotty, but it is reflections from the clouds.
Painted stripes
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Very nice! The outer extra stripes are a nice touch as well
Pretty sweet! Would like to see more pics with a better camera. I was wanting to color sand my car and rebuff once it shows but wasn't sure if there was enough clear on it from Ford. Great job on the stripes. I keep kicking around having silver stripes painted on my DIB
Those look soooo good! If you don't mind me asking, how much did this run you, price wise? I really like the outer pinstripes.
I had silver stripes painted on mine and the cost was $1500.00 . The dealer that I brought my from painted them. I paid invoice price for my GT500 so I wasn't worried about the cost of the stripes which was a good price considering a stripe kit cost right around $1000.00.
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That's sexy as hell!
Looks nice my friend 
looks very nice, well done !
Thank you very much. I will upload some more photos today that I just took that do a little better job of showing the quality of the job they did. Price wise, I paid $5k to have them done which includes taking the entire car apart, windows out, lights front and rear, mirrors, door handles etc, then scuffing the entire car and shooting the stripes followed by 6 coats of clear and wet sanding and buffing the entire car to a mirror shine with 0 orange peel. Looks like a show car paintjob now. Normally they would charge $6500 or so to do it. Took 30 days of work and $2k roughly in supplies. So while not cheap to do it the way I did, you can have it done for much less if you don't want to go to the extreme I went.
I really wanted a DIB and I was going to do red stripes. I would still have ordered without stripes unless I was ordering black stripes because I prefer the seats to not have stripes (although I don't mind the stripes in red) I had a DIB Roush Stage 3 and had the stripes switched to their red which I think they call red blooded American (or something like that) but its a pearl red and looked great IMO. If I order a 14 which I have first right to the first allocation I will either order Sterling Gray Metallic or DIB and do red stripes on either one. I love the DIB but love the SGM too and have had a DIB so would probably go SGM.
As far as color sanding the factory clear. It can be done but you won't have much left after and rock chips and stuff will happen very easily. If I was not going to add clear I would just try to knock some of the orange peel down but would not color/wet sand it all. Just my opinion but Fore isn't known for their quality paint and the factory clear is thinner then a post it note.
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very nice....:rockon:
I guess quality isn't cheap
Makes me want to abuse my factory paint job and stripes just so I have an excuse to do this. Wow!
I haven't seen your car, but I'd be willing to guess that the level of effort and cost which Dads500 has invested has most likely created a superior finish. Today I saw his car firsthand (and drove it) and saw it parked next to a Boss Mustang. The difference in finish was like comparing stucco to glass; it was that dramatic.
couple thoughts.
I think it looks like there is more depth to the stripes while painted. I do not really like the additional stripe on the outside of both sides, and I think there looks like to much flake or metallic in the stripes. If I do them, I would like to have them as matte looking as possible. But if thats the way you asked for it to be done then they do look bad ass.
I think it looks like there is more depth to the stripes while painted. I do not really like the additional stripe on the outside of both sides, and I think there looks like to much flake or metallic in the stripes. If I do them, I would like to have them as matte looking as possible. But if thats the way you asked for it to be done then they do look bad ass.
I'd have gone with one if those company that makes vinyl-like stripes from paint. Would live to pull the satin black off and add some SGM stripes. If I can find a way to do the sideswipe stock, I may when I change to the black mamba hood.
It's exactly what I asked for. The color is Sterling Gray Metallic, a factory Ford color, the metal flake pops a bit more then factory because of the finish they produced with the clear and wet sanding and buffing. I love it.
I did choose this option first and it looked good, just not good enough for my liking. I wanted the car to look better then factory, so I went for it, and IMO, got it.
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