GT350 stripes on my Ranger: yay or nay?

Here's a HIGHLY photoshopped pic of my Ranger. Right now it's pretty much all stock except for the engine and tranny, but my long term goal is to be a sports/muscle truck, road racing type theme. So, since I've got a carb'd high-revvin 289 in a road-race worthy (somewhat, lol) Ford, why not do a '6x Mustang GT350 paint scheme. Normally I'm strongly against rebadging stuff unless it REALLY deserves it, so I'm hesitant to put the "GT350" stripe on... but no matter what I think I want to stick with the stripes over the top. What do you guys think?


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The stripes are ok, make sure you taper them so the looks right. I would leave of the GT-350 though...
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By the way, here's a pic of what my Ranger ACTUALLY looks like right now. The only changes I've made since I took this pic are the engine and tranny (which lowered the front about 1/2"[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img], I tinted the rear window, and I primered the bumper grey, hehe. It's amazing what roughly 6 cumulative hours of photoshopping can do to a picture, lol!

/edit forgot the pic lol!


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'85 Ranger, bone stock (except for the 375hp 289 and T5-Z tranny [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

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Taper them? How do you mean? In the mustang pics I've seen, the stripes over the top and down the side straight...
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First off, your VERY good with photoshop, that picture looks great. As to the scheme, I like it, and I mean I like it a LOT. Very tasteful, very much ford without turning into a "mini" truck like so many others I've seen. HEll Id leave the GT350 there too, I mean ya already have the drivetrain of one, why not the paint scheme as well?

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I kinda like the sleeper look it has now[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif[/img] add some rust, blow some doors and leave 'em slack jawed![img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]
Worked for my old '77 rustang II.
Cosmetics can be over-rated.
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I dig the truck, and think you should call it whatever you want. It's not like you are trying to claim it was a limited production Ford in an attempt to take advantage of a want-to-be collector. You could play with the name and make it a GT 150, GTF-100, or the like.

Here is the data on the tapered stripes. Tapering may not be necessary on the boxy Ranger, as I think this was to compensate for an optical illusion caused by the round shape of the fastback Mustang.
http://www.thecarsource.com/shelby/r...ipe_specs.html

truly impressive. You spent 6 hours on photoshop...you need to put that idea and image to metal.
My hat's off to ya.

I like the look, I myself have a 92 ranger with a 351w/c6 ext cab. I say go for it if your motor's hp can back it up, but I'm not so sure about the gray?????

I'd lose the Grey too [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]..just a matter of color.. I'm painting my 80's 351C mustang project this color (the blue guitar in the pic)
http://www.ibanez.com/s-series/


I've got that exact guitar, and the color ROx