Painted or Chrome H4 rings on my early 930

[fastfredracing]

I absoloutely love the look of body color matching rings on a 930, but I have an early car, ( Peru Red), and all of the trim is shiny . I think the chrome rings would look sweet as well.. I am torn , would like to hear some of your suggestions. Anybody have any pics of an early turbo with chrome rings and h4's?. I am stealing the H4's off my SC, I will replace them with a set of e bay score H5's. THe rings on the SC are painted now, Is there a chrome ring under the paintable ring? This would be the best, maybe I can flop between the two until I make up my mind.

[Paul491]

It all depends what "look" you are after. Chrome will give your car the look akin to the original M491 Carrera of 1973. Painted rings will give it a more typical vintage 930 look.

Although I don't have an early 930, I do have an '84 M491 Carrera that I have been back-dating and "outlawing a bit". It originally had white colored headlight bezels which overlaid the chrome bezels, as you can see, are removed. I have recently added wire lense guards to protect the yellow lenses. Here are a few pics.



The next step is the possibility of changing the chrome bezels & stone wire mesh lense guards over to black...

Okay, now, Let's see some pictures of your ride!

[Eric_Shea]

I tend to think those are rare cars. I'd keep it stock.

[kidrock]

I think the chrome rings really pop....but only with the right combination of vehicle and color.

I guess the chrome would look best if you have little pieces of brightwork existing already....then the rings would really be a good addition.

But if everything is already color-matched, then not so much.

just my .02 cents..,.