lowered bricknose F150 with running boards

My latest midnight Marketplace score was this set of old OEM running boards off a later 92-96 OBS F150.

Here they are, in all their glory… installed, but unpainted on my lowered bricknose F150. They came off a gray truck, which I thought might conveniently match the patina’d gray graphics on this truck. But now I’m thinking matte black ’em like the wheels & other trim pieces. Or… the air-cooled Porsche outlaw in me thought about an off-the-wall mismatched ‘project’ color like sky blue.

I’ve been steadily reviving this 1990 OBS lowered Bricknose F150.

Short backstory: This was my wife’s grandfather’s truck. He bought it new in ’90 & loved it till the day he died… about 15 years ago. It’s been sitting in a sunny pasture (broke) for the last decade. I’ve never messed with an old truck before, so it’s been kind of a fun & unknown & sentimental project for me. (For more background & details on the truck – click here.)

What are your thoughts on these fine Ford running boards?

I posted a pic on my personal Facebook, and they seem more divisive than politics. People either loved ’em… or got angry at ’em. I think they’re staying on the truck, and I think the Flowmaster exhaust needs to reroute & dump right behind them where they kind of just oddly end at the cab. But regardless, I’d like to know what y’all think.