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Old Oct 27, 2014 | 12:39 PM
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I've been debating this question even longer than the top color question, and I still can't make up my mind. I've discovered some hairline cracking in my acrylic letter fills on the tail light panel and now I must do something. Option one is to just replace the pieces with stainless polished pieces painted anodized blue. Option two is to Berger the panel satin black and add stainless polished pieces painted anodized blue. Option three is really a wild idea to paint it to match the stripes, medium blue metallic with white or polished inserts. I think that last option is taking it too far, but who knows.

Since y'all provided a nice discussion on the top, what about the tail light panel?

And here are some cleaned shots of the top installed





And one of the new wheels and tires...

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Old Oct 27, 2014 | 12:45 PM
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On the berger panel I'll do a "LSX" emblem. Silver LS and have the X in blue. Put that baby right under the tail light.
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Old Oct 27, 2014 | 01:18 PM
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For your car I would leave the berger panel white and just get new inserts and emblems maybe color match to the stripes
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Old Oct 27, 2014 | 07:38 PM
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You have stripes, no Berger. Would be be too "busy looking " .
All black top, then do satin black Berger. No stripes. Just an opinion.
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Old Oct 29, 2014 | 11:56 AM
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Well, not a lot of feedback yet. I was kind of expecting the "leave it white" response.

As far as emblems go, I don't have any on the car aside from an Emblempros nose emblem done in all white and the blue tail panel fills. I've tossed around the idea of emblems, even gathered some Mazda emblems to do "383" on the back (think Mazda 3 and RX-8 numbers). In the end, I tend to come back to the debadged look... I don't know, an LSX emblem may look good with a blue X.
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Old Oct 29, 2014 | 01:40 PM
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I honestly think you could go a'll stainless emblems around and it would look really good. It would match your wheels. Imo having no emblems on any car just looks odd. If I was you, I would get a stainless bowtie for the rear and 3 SS or Z28 stainless emblems for the stock side and rear locations then finish it off with stainless camaro inserts for the rear filler panel.

How you feel about that?
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Left mine white I like both though
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Old Oct 29, 2014 | 02:15 PM
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Are those Trufiber hoods?
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Originally Posted by jaxcam02
I honestly think you could go a'll stainless emblems around and it would look really good. It would match your wheels. Imo having no emblems on any car just looks odd. If I was you, I would get a stainless bowtie for the rear and 3 SS or Z28 stainless emblems for the stock side and rear locations then finish it off with stainless camaro inserts for the rear filler panel.

How you feel about that?
The thing is, I really like my anodized blue headlights. They really came out nice, and while some people hate them, I get more compliments on them than the paint! I think its more the combination of the headlights and the paint, but people target the headlights in conversation. If I did stainless emblems, I'd be inclined to replace the headlights with chrome. Not bad, I actually have some lying around in new condition. But really, I think I minimized emblems for the aesthetically pleasing symmetrical/smooth look.

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Are those Trufiber hoods?
Yes, both Camaros.

Looks like it's leaning to white with blue letters.
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