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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 03:29 PM
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Default Berger Panel opinion?
First off I've got a spare panel to make a berger. I can't decide if I should go with flat black or gloss black. Then secondly should I do chrome or orange insert letters? My car is a 2002 SOM SS
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 03:34 PM
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Keep the panel SOM and get stainless inserts. I hate when people paint those panels. Looks tacky IMO.
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 03:35 PM
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My opinion would be gloss black and chrome for the cleanest look, flat black and orange for the meanest look. The latter would look great with your ten spokes powder coated flat black.

I'd probably go gloss black, chrome inserts, and gloss black rims with a chrome lip.
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by CHRRRIS
My opinion would be gloss black and chrome for the cleanest look, flat black and orange for the meanest look. The latter would look great with your ten spokes powder coated flat black.

I'd probably go gloss black, chrome inserts, and gloss black rims with a chrome lip.
I actually just bought polished TTII's.
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Originally Posted by A350SOM
I actually just bought polished TTII's.
Then gloss black and chrome inserts for sure. If you don't like it, switch back to the SOM berger and chrome inserts on that, just mess with it until you find something you like!
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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 03:46 PM
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Go w/ gloss black to match your top and do chrome/SS inserts like this car in the pic.

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gloss black and chrome=sex
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SOM + Polished wheels = No berger

Get the stainless fill-ins and clear corners and call it a day.
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hmmm.....we'll see sounds like a very biased subject
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here's a picture with the new wheels for reference.
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agreed go gloss. on a color that pops like SOM does, semi gloss or flat black would look out of place
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i would stick with som and get either silver or flat black lettering i think it would look alot cleaner than the berger but what else would be cool would be gloss berger with som lettering
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SOM SS, chrome rims, gloss black berger and chrome inserts... you decide!

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...uddies-ss.html
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flat black.
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Go satin black with stainless fill-ins
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Originally Posted by A350SOM
here's a picture with the new wheels for reference.
lol! i thought i was looking at my car for a sec.
we have the same rims. I did a berger panel test on my car a while back with a gloss blk panel.take a look.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...y-01somss.html
nice car by the way
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here you go.





These are not going on
I just wanted to see what it would look like.

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I say leave the camaro in SOM, you can always add the inserts later.
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A satin berger panel would look nice.
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SOM panel w/chrome inserts. The berger flattens out the rear too much.
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