Pin Strip

[agaviorno]

Humm getting new paint job on my blue 1987 supra.....dont know if i want to keep the pin strip or not...i think it looks good eather way

 

[rakkasan]

Personally, I think pinstripes age the car. I don't prefer them

 

[aye mate]

I like my pinstriipe. I think it makes the car look longer and lower. I have a metallic blue color and the stripe is light blue. If I had to do it over I would have a black/gun metal stripe.

 

[Brewster]

lose the stripe

 

[Turbo Targa]

How the hell do they come off???? I tried to take one off the driver's side door and now its hanging off from what looks like a rivet?

 

[SupraMario]

umm, dude ur pulling off the trim not the pin stripe. the pin stripe is the painted line on the car.

 

[Loki]

I like the pinstripe on my car.

 

[Jeff Lange]

umm, dude ur pulling off the trim not the pin stripe. the pin stripe is the painted line on the car.

Usually a pin stripe is vinyl, not paint.

There were no factory pin stripes on Supras, they were dealer installed or done later by previous owners.

Turbo Targa, the trim on the doors, etc, is mounted in various ways, might want to start a new thread about that.

In any case, I prefer no stripe myself.

 

[isnms]

There were no factory pin stripes on Supras, they were dealer installed or done later by previous owners.

That's a cool tid bit. I didn't know that. Learn something new every day

 

[cwapface]

this was enough for me to swear them off forever, but dark colors might be a different story

 

[turbo]

I am getting my car repainted this winter also. I remember reading somewhere that some mk3 supra colors used lacquer paint. I think my 8G5 paint midnight blue metallic is one of them. I want an exact factory job so any info on supra factory paint or where to get it etc would be great.

Thanks
Geoff

 

[Loki]

Dark coloured car with pinstripe. I think it looks good, follows the lines of the car.

 

[Orion ZyGarian]

So can you just peel it off? Because I personally dont like it, and at the very front, the pinstripe angle looks more 80s then Bill and Ted

 

[rakkasan]

For those who want to remove their pinstripe, heat it with a hair dryer before you start to remove it. Also, be warned that the paint under the pinstripe will be darker than the rest of your paint because it isn't oxidized or faded.

 

[Turbo Targa]

Usually a pin stripe is vinyl, not paint.

There were no factory pin stripes on Supras, they were dealer installed or done later by previous owners.

Turbo Targa, the trim on the doors, etc, is mounted in various ways, might want to start a new thread about that.

In any case, I prefer no stripe myself.

:wtf:

Damnit! Learning something everyday I guess. DOH

 

[agaviorno]

....i didnt know that eather....hurray i learneded to

 

[suprabad]

Leave the pinstripes for the Yankees...