I have a 95 Legacy wagon. I rebuilt the car after it had been hit in the front, so I repainted the hood, bumper, and one fender in the process. (Also patched a gash on a passenger door and painted it. No one other than me can really tell that the car has different paint, but I want to paint the entire car this spring.

 

I plan to two tone it the way the early Outbacks were before Subaru started hanging plastic on them. I've not inspected one other than in a parking lot, so I'm curious from you who own or owned one:

 

The bottom color that was painted on those wagons--did the bottom color and its top stripe carry into the door jambs of your car? I don't really want the hassle of painting the door jambs, and probably won't, but I'm curious whether or not the factory paint job did.

I have had/have 3 outbacks. 2 were OBS and one was a legacy OB and all of them were the top color in the jams. Same with the forester in my sig too.

 

Matt

Just checked our 01 OBW, and the green is the colour everywhere but on the lower cladding and bumpers.

Thanks for the info. I did a paint job on my 81 El Camino when I was in college and decided to do the bottom portion of that car in a metallic charcoal. (The car was silver.) My dad, who was a mechanic for years and used to do some body/paint when he was younger and is also a perfectionist when he does something, told me I needed to do it "the right way" and paint the door jambs to match. So, I removed all the interior stuff and painted to jambs and the inside of the doors to match the exterior two-tone. The pinstriping even continued over the jambs and disappeared under the first encounter with interior trim when you opened a door. It looked really nice, but was an ultimate pain in the butt to do.

 

 

Now, I don't have to fool with painting anything but the exterior of the car that second color and I can still "do it the right way" and not hear my dad's voice in the background the whole time...