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Old 08-06-2012, 09:42 PM
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doing purple accents to my car..cool?

I'm painting my rims lip purple and already painted my Fender stripes purple.. Will it look cool put gay? Lol
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what color is your car?
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i got dark purple calipers/controls arms and a purple strut bar on my sunburst orange one..but my rims are dark gunmetal and tc rims so they go together...to much tho is not good the fender stripes i think will over kill may be wrong tho
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who cares if you like it


i have purple lugs
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Like these guys said, as long as you like it. my car is silver and i've been using a bright orange. did the chrome around the bowtie and will be painting my Retro shrouds soon. it can look good if done tastefully
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If being cool is making your car appear as if the owner of it is color blind, yes.
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Hahaha my car is black with black rims and red pinstripe on the lip. Red on black is over done so i tried purple lol
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black and purple look good
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Originally Posted by Crav3
Hahaha my car is black with black rims and red pinstripe on the lip. Red on black is over done so i tried purple lol
Agreed. Do it. If my car was black/silver/white I was going to do purple
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I already did it lol I'll get pics for you guys tomorrow when its completely dry lol

Btw i have fender stripes on driver side only
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hmmm black and purple..... sounds like a good combo to me as long as it isnt like highlighter purple haha
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purple is pimp in for pics. i did my trim purple and my sc purple just waiting to see what else imma do purple in my car lol
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Originally Posted by TheSlowGT
hmmm black and purple..... sounds like a good combo to me as long as it isnt like highlighter purple haha
Hell nah!! its darkest purple i coild find lol
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ya thats the theme im going for black and purple. I have like blue under dash lights and blue couplers on my charge pipe but thats it for blue. I kinda started a blue theme but whatever im switching to purple lol. Good thing purple and blue go together. I just put my purple powell sway bar on today. the black and purple looks real nice. just make it a dark purple. It needs to be like ravens purple. hmm what all should I make purple on my car. The rim lip purple probably looks really awesome cant wait for picture.

black rims with purple lip would look awesome

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my scheme is purple and black. hopefully changing it when i get new wheels though
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stenguyen1 has a black/purple theme and it looks good.
he is parting out his car and im getting his purple engine mount and valve cover.
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i thought about a very little bit of purple on vic red, wasn't sure how it would turn out tho so i didnt do it. still want to tho
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Well ill get some pics tomorrow lol drying over night. I wanted a black with white theme but embed up buying black rims with a red pin stripe. I decided to just paint the pin stripe purple so i hope it comes or good if not redo with the lip purple lol
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Haha well it turned out good but ima remove in a few weeks i like whitd better lol
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