Paulchristian

This is very VERY nice. Perfect in fact. This is how it should have left the factory. IMO.

Paulchristian

Simply. That's because the bezels around the lights in body color is just too much. The bezels are too large to be body color. In this application, a little contrast is needed. The silver car is perfect.

themonk

Exactly, AW, not a chance, the black bits including the vents, mirrors and spoiler break up the vast expanse of white rather nicely. Good work on yours. That red one posted earlier....NAFC, silver though looks pretty good.

go4kj

Agree, that is the way I'll probably go when I get my Torch Red C7.

richscorvettes

Glen, you might be looking at the drop light which has a plug I use for powering the battery charger. From that view it does look like the Griots mini-polisher which comes in handy for some jobs but I like the old Porter-Cable random orbit polisher for most polishing jobs.

Hmmm, we've been asked why the cars are in our "kitchen" a few times.......... Woodworking is another hobby and we built the garage ourselves from the ground up including installing the cabinets.

I agree. When we were first thinking of the changes we might want to make to the car we had considered painting the grills, vents and bezels in either body color or a contrasting color. For silver I thought using a Pewter might look interesting. In the end though we thought silver would look best to us with more contrast and we like the contrast the carbon flash provides. We felt the same when it came to the lower fascia even though it was a bit more work than had we painted the entire piece in one color.

Rich

bleu65vt

Excellent results. You need to be polishing....maybe the undercarriage.... HA!

sandu002

My NRB came from factory painted. I have a 1LT. I thought the black was a 2LT or 3LT upgrade ?

go4kj

You are mistaken my friend. None of them come from the factory painted.

OnPoint

They came painted - just not body color.

sandu002

My picture above may not show it well enough, but my neighbor and I had this discussion a couple of weeks ago and in the sunlight we both agreed that it is the body color. I will say with the NRB, the color takes on different color hues, sometimes it looks like it has gray in it on upper panels and hood, trunk, roof.

If I am wrong, it is a black pretty close to the original NRB paint color. If I take some new pics of it, I will post them.

sandu002

If you look at the NRB thread post #31 you will see what I mean about how hard it is to tell what color the bumper is.

arcticblast

It really looks great on the silver.

sandu002

Just looked at my NRB bumper and today it looks black.

prinzSD455

That looks great. This mod application to the rear is the first one I like. Otherwise I would leave it stock as all the other rear mods look strange to me.

AORoads

I used to say that all-body color in back would look too "big," or "oversize" as Rich has said in his thinking about it. The silver treatment, done the way he did it, looks very good. I still think for some it might be too much body-color in the rear, but that's a personal preference for some, and not for others. I'd say that Rich's silver treatment is a very good example of how to do it.