Stripes

Are you going to continue across the top or the hood?
If not maybe you need to terminate it in a logical fashion.
It colud be striking in the right color combo.

As far as being "young & dumb" I was there once also, Check out my thread on restorations, you eventually get over it and if your like there is no lasting effetc there is no lasting effect there is no lasting effecttttttttttttttt. LOL
Andrew