Originally Posted by Rodewaryer

It isn't cool, hot, 'with it', brilliant or whatever your term is when someone is too cheap or not mature enough to be thorough and paint replacement parts but instead, run around....like a wet behind the ears kid with no money (how's that instead of punk kid?)....and claim your added parts are cool to leave unpainted. This whole thing with black/unmatching panels, black wheels, unpainted CF, satin wrapping high end cars, rusty bonetts makes the REAL car guys/petrolheads laugh out loud, or want to puke....I'm not sure which really as both feelings want to manifest at the same time.

If yours is done that way and I met you in public or saw a pic of it on here, I'd be polite enough to not rag on you about it, but I would be the last person to lie to you and tell you I liked you car. I'd just keep it to myself or find something else about it worth talking about.

This whole part of the enthusiast culture that does the patchwork panel treatment etc and encourages people to do it, just goes against the grain in a BIG way.