I'm getting my car painted. should 400 hood scoops be painted to match the hood, or leave them black?

Can I have some of your opinions?

Pick color opposite of the hood to enhance the scoops. Or chrome them like many others have.

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The factory painted them body color with the inner "grill" a flat black. I have also seen cars with them black, chrome or other color if the owner wanted a special look.

yes, "should be" painted body color....some have black as Jim says , some have the "Nairoby kit" as I do....lol

I am also at that stage for paint and I have decided to keep mone black. The car will be Red and I think it will give it a better look and contrast. Just my opinion though.

With red, black scoops would look pretty good. But, I think I'll play it safe and paint them to match.

Since the car has a green interior, I feel stuck going with green exterior. No other exterior paint color would really work with a green interior?

Red or orange, carousel red, go well with green interiors. White and black also work well.

As far as the scoop color, I perfer painted to match the body, and they are pretty darn evident on the car. When you start using a bunch of colors, it becomes busy.

Yeah, I'm thinking green, white, or black, in that order. Right now the car is white and it works ok with the green interior. It has 4 different layers of paint, so it needs to be stripped and start over. That opens things up to any color exterior. If I was just doing a respray, I'd keep it white.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> It has 4 different layers of paint, so it needs to be stripped and start over </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">maybe carefully sand it to one good layer?? lol :p

now there's an idea. Using 320 grit, I'll sand thru the polar white, then the pearl white, stopping at the forest green, which is on top of the limelight green. Should look pretty good!