Not quite standard bonnet stripes...

 

How about hawwian sripes? you can get these from my website.

 

Here are mine.

Black with chrome pin.

 

I installed my own bonnet stripes with a little help from a few guys from my office. Fortunately, I work at a speedway where they often do custom decal work on race cars. The graphics guys gave me a few yards of gloss black decal material about 7" wide. They also gave me a spray bottle of alcohol to clean the surface before application, some windex, a roll of 3M blue tape, and a felt-edged smoothing tool. After cleaning the bonnet, I positioned the stripes then taped them down. I sprayed the bonnet with windex then peeled the backing off the stripe, spraying the adhesive side with windex. Once half of the stripe was positioned, I began using the felt-edged thing to smooth out the wrinkles and excess windex. In about an hour I had two bonnet stripes. The first day they looked a little rough, but after one day in the warm summer sun, the surface was as smooth as glass! I'm no expert, but I would never pay a huge amount of money for something I could do myself - much more satisfying!



'05 PW/B MC in suburban Chicago.

 

I love Suzanne's stripes!

 

Well got the base stripes on and one of the etch checkers don't really like how they turned out. Thinking of maybe going with either just black checkers or dark silver/grey (but lighter then body color) to offset the white. What do you guy's think?

 

Yeah, that's not working for me. I would go with just black checkers (with your DS paint showing through), or maybe a light silver with your DS showing through.

The only problem with using 1-color checkers is that it will be a lot more work to remove lots of little squares than it would be to take off a simple stripe. I'll probably be removing my center-checker stripe early next year, and I'm not looking forward to it.

 

I haven't had the removal problem yet, but I definately like the body color showing through. It makes all the difference.

 

If the material you got is high performance that it should not be to much trouble to remove them. Do it on a warm day. That will help too. I can get a material that mathes the DS almost exact. use that as the body color and print black checks on it.

Like what I did here.

 

Got any material that matches Purple Haze in a similiar way?

I like the way mine is now a lot, but you never know in the future.....

 

The colors are hard to match exact but I think I have something close.

 

These are my stripes

 

If you can scare up any kind of reference photos I would love to see.

 

Here is another different take on the standard stripes.


Bill

 

They're from Cooper Flags (sorry, I saw them first!), so I think they're good quality. My factory stripes came off with almost no effort. There were only 2 of them, though, now I have maybe 40 three-inch squares of vinyl on my car!

 

I love my stripes so much, I coordinated!!!! (stripes is correct, I have a matching boot stripe)
OK, I did not match my car on purpose, it was an accident.
Mike at Aesthicreations did a great job.

 

Fantastic Car! Bold choices. Very nice to see.

 

Off with the frost and on with the black metallic checkers. =) I think this one turned out much better.

 

Definitely better! I'd prefer a more subtle, black-checkers-only version, but hey it's your car, and you like it so who cares what I like?! It's always nice to see someone's personal stamp on a MINI.

 

 

I have updated photos of PPE and her stripes in my gallery if anyone would like to see.

Here are a couple shots from today!

:smile:

 

dealer checker roof 400$ boot and bonnet checker stripes self done with a friend, 4$.

also about 5-6 hours of work... it had to be done right.

 

Man this car looks real familiar.


Nice looking mini. I realy like that silver roof. Stripes are a nice tuch too.

 

here my stripes...

 

Here you go...




and this one too...