[Shotimes] Bras and SHOs?

[Dembik William]

I have a bra on my '95 blue mtx, and i think that it looks sharp on my car 
and also gets compliments (i think its just the car that gets the 
compliments though).  But i also have a small crack in my front ground 
effects that i won't be able to fix until spring so until then my bra will 
stay on the car.  Plus following salt trucks, and other vehicles you would 
think that bras would keep stone chips, ect. off the hood. But i guess to 
each his own.

--Will ('95 mtx that just hit 108,000)






>From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
>To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Bras and SHOs?
>Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:39:26 -0500
>
>I  had a Colgan, and I only put it on with a clean, waxed front end, and I
>would hit it with Final Inspection before the  installation. This was on 
>the
>black '89 after the repaint. I also have a Colgan that I use on the (black)
>911.
>
>There are some basic issues that can't be resolved, the key one being at 
>the
>very leading edge of the front fenders. Wind unavoidably gets under the bra
>by the side marker light, and the bra is stretched over the fender edges,
>and it moves around.
>
>I'm sure it works much better on a light-colored car, but I would never
>leave a bra on a dark car. I would immediately pull off the bra upon 
>getting
>to my destination, or if it started to rain. If I couldn't get the bra and
>the car clean before the return trip, I wouldn't use it.
>
>The other cosmetic issue with a bra is that it has run it's course like a
>lot of other things. In the beginning, bras were expensive, and were on
>expensive cars. Now you can pick them up for a song for any car, and they
>look tacky. Seems that most cars I see them on use it to either cover
>dents/scratches/rust, or it appears to be holding the front-end of the car
>together!! The bra has become "JC Whitney-ized"!!
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of George Fourchy
>Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 4:52 AM
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Bras and SHOs?
>
>
>On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 03:36:39 -0500, Ron Porter wrote:
>
> >but leaving a
> >bra on the car causes paint issues of it's own. I only used to use mine 
>for
> >long trips in dry weather, and still got paint scratches.
>
>The white under the cover on the hood is a different color for a while 
>after
>I take
>it off to wash it....then it is OK after a few hours.  As for scratches, 
>the
>inside
>needs to be kept clean and free of foreign material, and they will be kept
>to a
>minimum.  On the other hand, white doesn't show those fine scratches like a
>dark
>color does..we'll see what happens to the black car later.
>
>George
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