Boring paint- ideas please

Depends on your definition of cheap - is $75 a lot of money for a professionally made set of stripes? I do the 73/74 style stripes for that as well as custom AAR stripes. It's not as cheap as a krylon stripe set but it will definitely help your "boring" car out...

FWIW - I've done dozens of krylon stripes myself (before I started to make stripe kits), and they will certainly help and if that is all you budget allows, go for it!