So we decided to spruce up the ol '89 chevy caprice that my roomie 'owns'...

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It was quite the undertaking in retrospect. Who would have thought that spray painting flames up the side of a crap car would have taken so long?!

All in all though, it was quite fun! Monday night at 6 the process begain, washing the chev to remove the million pounds of dust and dirt from the surface. Then the waxing, apparently wax interacts with the paint, and removes a small layer... but the chev, I was sure that we were stipping it down to the metal! I've never blued my hands in under 30 seconds before.

Day 1 - The set up was simple... take a picture of the car... photoshop the flames on, project the picture of the car onto the car... tape, then spray. It took many takes to get just the right flame shape in the picture, but then we settled on a design that we both liked.

The projecting and taping went smoothly, we sealed off a small area of the car with garbage bags to protect the surface, but not enough it seemed, as the blast radius incurred severe collateral damage.

Day 2 - Marc came over to help - we began with burgers and beer, a good start on a nice day. The set up again went smoothly, and with 3 of us 'helping' the process seemed to fly by. There were many occurences for photos. The paint was then finished, the skull rims installed, then we went to work on the audio system!

1 1992 home theatre receiver/amp - held under the dash with bungee cord

1 75W power inverter - wired through firewall direct to battery

3 ft 12-gauge wire

1 300W concert speaker - fed under seat in the trunk

= awesome sound!

Thank god for fun roommates - Damn it feels good to be a gangstar!