I'm trying to figure out a good pinstriping scheme for the RX-8. I've attached some jpegs of ideas I've been working on. One thing I quickly discovered is how difficult the 8 is to pinstripe! The flowing and varying surfaces do not easily lend themselves to being "divided" up with pinstripes. It's almost like trying to pinstripe a moebus strip.

Any suggestions/feedback?

Ole Spiff

 

please put your hands up and step away from the computer :p

the top one doesn't look horrible buy you have to cut it off sooner rather than running it the whole way around the front cover. The one that archs over the wheel wells makes me cringe and don't get me started on front cover one spanning the fogs...

 

Just the top pinstripe seems like a possibility, without it wrapping around the nose. All the others seem silly and out of place.

 

ewwwwwwwwww!

 

Mutation?

Come on nature, do your bit. KILL! KILL! KILL!

 

Perhaps pinstripe all over - more zebra?

 

my first thought even before i got to the pic and pmac's response was just stop and step away from the computer. like others said maybe the top one but the others.......

 

Going for the "Tron" look, eh?

 

Thanks for showing me what to NOT do to the car. Very informative.

 

yea i suggest you don't do it at all, please...pinstriping is illegal on sports cars, didn't you know? i don't even think they really do it anymore on family passenger cars...just a suggestion...

 

hells no

 

it reminds me of this.

 

that is really bad

 

Funny how cool the batmobile looked at the time....now it's not so cool. Oh well.

 

Ole Spiff... based on that reception, if you add those mods to your car, it will at least be unique.

Do what you think looks best - if we all had the same tastes it would be very boring world. (No doubt we'd all be driving white stock Corollas).

And the batmobile was never cool, get a grip people! The Batman TV series was pure camp.

 

the batmobile was and still is cool! :D

 

And you didn't even have the vaguest sense that a twenty-years-younger little boy sidekick in a tight costume was a teeny bit suspicious? :D

That said, I did have a little Matchbox Batmobile, bought for me against my will for Christmas I might add. It was destroyed in glorious flames like most of my other toys.

 

was the Batmobile a rotary? Fire came out of the back!

 

I just love it when we tie in other threads... LOL..

 

No no, it all burns. Die-cast has a very low melting point, lead and tin. Mmm, fire...

 

i was 8 at the time. so no i didnt really think about robin's issues.

 

no but here are some facts.

http://www.1966batmobile.com/spec.htm

 

Hhehehe

 

LOL

 

Okay well since you all were so shy in telling me what you think, I decided to try a revision based on your oh-so-subtle suggestions. (hehe)

BTW, this is not my car; I have a blue one but I used this because it had a nice angle of view.

I did find it interesting though that no one seemed to notice the retouched rims; those are the stock RX-8 rims but I darkened the "spokes". I'm sure now that I've mentioned it everyone will be equally shy at giving me feedback on how they look. :D

Ole Spiff

mod edit - this pic is broken sorry