how do you guys like the moldings on the 86 model cars, black or same color as body, also on the headlamp area?? I cant decide what to do on my car, going with flame red for the color on the body
My brother's 83 GL had the headlight area black and the louvers body colored from the factory. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me. Definetely black for the headlight area though, up to you for the louvers!
I don't dig body-colored trim on the four-eyed Foxes, personally. It looks good (when done right) on the Aero Foxes, partly because body-colored mouldings were available from the factory on the later models (about '91-'93, IIRC). The only four-eyed Foxes I can think of that came all body-colored from the factory were like the GT350 models in '83 or so, where they even whited-out the area around the headlights. That look just never sat well with me - looks like someone repainted the car and got too lazy to mask things off.
I'll be repainting the trim on my '86 GT 'vert soon, but I'll be painting it black instead of the factory charcoal gray. I like to have a little bit more contrast, plus it'll tie in a bit better with the factory black GT hood stripe. About the only colors I'd leave the trim as factory-gray, actually, would be on a white or gray/silver car - on everything else, it just looks like black trim that's faded to a gray with age. Makes the car look kinda worn out and run down, even when it's clean, IMO.