Was thinking about putting a couple pinstripes on my 23 Tucson. Would love to see a picture or two of something tastefully done.
Pinstripes?
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I think pinstripes done right would look great!!
Just NOT like in the picture/link below
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![Wheel Automotive parking light Tire Vehicle Vehicle registration plate]()
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Just NOT like in the picture/link below
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Whoa... that's scary.
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Hideous comes to mind.
If I do go ahead with a pinstripe or two, I don't think I want to accent the front fender lines. They already look quite pronounced.
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The car has so much going on with angles it won't be easy. But I can see an understated pinstripe could work. On a color like I have, Amazon Grey I would think a complimentary color not a contrasting one.
Funny I thought with all the owners on this forum, SOMEBODY would have put some pinstripes on their car. The pictures provided in post #2 above were intended to be funny. I think we'd all agree the car just looks gaudy. Obviously that not what I had in mind. Again, anybody out there put pinstripes on their Tucson?
Danco:Pinstripes are so 1990s...
If you would agree that Pnistripes were so 50's and 60's, then I'd say, "So am I.."
My '68 Mustang did not have pinstriping, but my 2004 4Runner does. So, I'd say 1986+30 years!
I had an '06 silver Mercedes SLK350. I put a blue pin stripe on it along with painting the calipers a "candy-apple" blue color. Came out looking pretty good. Thinking about doing that on my Tucson... it's sooo... white. But at least I did get one thing done: I got rid of that butt-ugly giant chrome "H" in the back. I posted the picture below in another thread. Glad that's done. Now on to the pinstripes...
Well, here it is, FINALLY. It's been awhile since I started this thread, inquiring if anybody put pinstripes on their Tucson. I ended up getting one reply, but not on this thread. I put this double stripe just below the body line. Because of the angle of the sheet metal above this body line, the pinstripe is much more subdued because it's BELOW the body line. Not as prominent as it would have been had I put it above the body line because of the way the sun highlights everything above that line. Also, I decided not to wrap it around the back on the tailgate. It ends at the joint line between the tailgate and the fender.
I hear ya. Pinstripes, like chrome, have fallen out of favor as of late. But I come from the dinosaur age, and just like when we sit down at the dinner table, ya like whatcha like. I've always liked pinstripes and calipers that are anything other than plain old silver. There won't be any other do-dads on my car for appearance other than these. I'm happy cuz now it's personal. There's not another Tucson on the planet that looks like it. Plus my car will always have a light dusting of white powder on the sidewalls of my tires: curtesy of the dirt road I live on.
Like you, I'm a dinosaur, too. I don't paint my calipers, because I still think of them as brake drums!
Brake drums? Wow... last car I had with drums on the front was my 67 Camaro in high school. And yeah, I painted those too, along with the rear differential cover plate. Those were the days when every teen wanted a set of fat tires mounted on SS Cragar mags. Jack up the back so the tires would stick out of the wheel wells, and head for the local drive through... Good times.
Mine was a '68 Mustang, but same idea!
Hey Gary, I just found this. I finally get to see your pinstripe! Nice and tastefully done. When I looked at mine, I thought it needed something to break up the Portofino gray. Red looks good on gray, I thought to myself. I looked at pictures of that stuff they make in China and other overseas companies and thought, not! All that crap going on looks like garbage (e.g. pinstripe every fold or big swatches of color all over the place.
I, like you, put them below that body line, but for different reasons. I wanted to see how it looked wrapped around the back. I liked it, plus being less conspicuous in the sunlight. I like to make my cars mine and I do that by putting small touches on them. I bought the car partially for its style, so I don't want to destroy the things I bought for. We got diverted in that caliper thread, but the pics do belong here. So, here they are again;
This one has a lot of side light on the car so the stripe shows up brighter in my garage than out in the wild, in most cases.
![Wheel Tire Vehicle Car Hood]()
Here's a pic of it in the driveway out in the sun;
![Wheel Car Tire Vehicle Land vehicle]()
So, it shows up sometimes and sometimes you have to actually look for it to see it.
It just wraps around the back and up the other side and I just stopped it where that fold ends.
I like to mock things up before giving it a go. Here is the piece of Christmas ribbon I used to determine if I wanted to actually do this;
![Automotive tail & brake light Vehicle registration plate Wheel Vehicle Automotive lighting]()
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Next up, another sore spot. This has to go;
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I, like you, put them below that body line, but for different reasons. I wanted to see how it looked wrapped around the back. I liked it, plus being less conspicuous in the sunlight. I like to make my cars mine and I do that by putting small touches on them. I bought the car partially for its style, so I don't want to destroy the things I bought for. We got diverted in that caliper thread, but the pics do belong here. So, here they are again;
This one has a lot of side light on the car so the stripe shows up brighter in my garage than out in the wild, in most cases.
Here's a pic of it in the driveway out in the sun;
So, it shows up sometimes and sometimes you have to actually look for it to see it.
It just wraps around the back and up the other side and I just stopped it where that fold ends.
I like to mock things up before giving it a go. Here is the piece of Christmas ribbon
I used to determine if I wanted to actually do this;
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Next up, another sore spot. This has to go;
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Did you guys just go the vinyl route or actually hand paint the pinstripe?
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