Photoshop help.......

It looks as though I am going to be giving my son my 1986 BMW 325 4 door for his first car. He has some plans for it. These include changing it from the silver it is now to either red or black. I would like to see it in that before I let proceed with the change. I have had this car for 11 years and 140k miles so I am quite attached to it.

He thinks he would like to put some accent stripes on the sides of the hood bulge. Not racing stripes, just some stripes that follow the natural curve of the hood on either side of the center bulge.

Can anyone who knows photoshop possibly put something like this onto an image and let me see how it looks?

It also has stock wheels and he would like to put some 5 spoke wheels on it also. Any help with seeing how this would look?

Any help you guys can add would be greatly appreciated.......

 

That is more like what he wants to do. He would like to paint it black, like the one you picture or red. He wants just the very same stripes on the slant of the hood bulge like you picture. He also wants to paint the contrasting color on the back of the small trunk lip spoiler.

I went to a salvage yard and found some black leather sport seats that would fit in place of the stock seats that come in the 4 door 325. I went back to get them and they were gone............well, what they say about snoozing and losing. Redo the interior, paint, wheels and a new sound system and I believe he will have a pretty good first car.

I remember mine. Red and white 1956 Plymouth four door with a three speed stick on the column and an inline flaghead 6. Paid $250 for it in 1964. Kept it until I bought a 55 Chevy. Much more fun, V8 and all.......

Thanks for the help. Does anyone else have some ideas about how I can update the car, and still keep the expenditure within a small budget?

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I am thinking about replacing the stock roll pan under the front bumper with an airdam like the one you picture. I am going to do this stuff and then like it so much I will want to keep it for myself. Shiloh Phoenix, my son, says that will be okay if I replace it with a nice '71 Camaro.....

 

Close. We may have to do something different with the wheels because the '86 325 had four lug bolts per wheel. This may limit what we can do. Thanks for the suggestion. He is looking at all of them and picking out the things he likes best about each...........

 

Turning 16 the end of March. He is reading the Texas driving manual now and will test for his permit next month. He will have to drive with a licensed driver over 21 in the front seat with him for the first six months before he can drive by himself. He will probably get real tired of me being that rider. I want to know how he is driving before I let him take the car himself. I guess all dads go through this.......................

 

I agree. I only finally agreed to very small stripes on the side ridges of the hood bulge and nothing else. No panels, flames, multi-hued paint or any such hideous things. He wants 5 spoke wheels. I might go from the 14's that are on the car now to 15's as they will fit and will look better in the wheel wells. It has tinted glass and a small rear deck spoiler that is a BMW item. No wings or coffee can exhaust.

I have been a BMW fan since I saw my first M635Csi Euro car back in 1983. I have had a number of them since then but have kept this little car the longest by far. Bought it 11 years ago with 68K on it and it now shows 203K. It has been a very good car for me............