Question for those with flat black or satin hoods

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Now in satin black, before in flat black - difficult colour, never looked evenly...

Satin black correspondends good with the black of the stripe kit, which is also a satin-like black.

Btw:

the craze with the blacked out hoods came out of the Rallye sport.
It should avoid glare (from headlights of other cars), when driving, racing in the nighttime.

Nearly all european Rallye cars in the late sixies had blacked out hoods:

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