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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwidreamer View Post
    Can you boarder it with pin stripping or something, make a feature out of it or is it that different it will drive you crazier?
    It's very different.
    And I know my eyes would be drawn to it all the time.

    Kurt Broker did a very good job on the exterior; I'm pleased with it.
    But this...no.

    Its got to be changed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    It's very different.
    And I know my eyes would be drawn to it all the time.

    Kurt Broker did a very good job on the exterior; I'm pleased with it.
    But this...no.

    Its got to be changed.
    I looked at the panels after paint, but before being installed and I agree that the shade of cream selected is much different from the vinyl overlaid panel with all of the graffiti that was to be the "master". In hindsight it's like they simply took color chips and found what they felt was the closest match instead of doing a custom color match to the master. With today's technology matching paint by spectrophotometer has become a science vs the art it was in times past. Watching one of the newer auto reality shows some time back their paint guy mixed up almost 100 tints trying to match existing white paint on a custom ride. It can be done.

    Good luck getting it fixed, jb! Sorry you're having to deal with another rock in the road.....
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