the camaro gets stripes...

Well, I did it. I made a five year commitment to a little red Camaro this Memorial Day. As much fun as it was to drive stock, I started seeing myself on the freeway, not in red..but in grey, in black, in white. So I figured it was time to make my Camaro a little different. Stripes right? Naturally. What color? Black.

Ok. Easy enough, I'll get a sticker kit from the factory and it will be just enough different to set me apart from the sea of Camaros stalking the streets. Wrong. Not only do they want $800 for vinyl stripes but EVERYONE and their mother has them too. Solution? Paint them on, after all we do have a paint shop in the same building and said paint shop owner owes this girl a favor or two.

So, it's decided. We paint them on. Why? For one, we can make them any shape, size, or variation that we want. Two, NO ONE driving a Camaro with stripes will have MY stripes.

I like this. ALOT. :)

PPG is our friend, and my friend in this case, which is why we are using their fabulous paint to spray the stripes with.

To anyone wanting to paint on stripes. Be prepared for AT LEAST 3 hours of tape and prep.

This handle will be the downfall of the mob.

SO. everything is taped up, and ready to go...well..maybe not.

Three hours of laying out stripes will do this to you. I didn't ever want to look at blue tape again.

hahaha...If I get fisheyes in my stripes because of you.....

Ok. your safe this time, only cause they had to wipe it off.

FINALLY! paint. Guess what it took mayybee 10 mins. ugh.

Lets not forget the deck-lid Stripes!

40 Mins and a carl's cheeseburger later it was time to pull the tape on the stripes. woot!!

DONE! well, the spoiler is missing, it's painted too..

Now tell me, who has those stripes besides me? NO ONE! I like those odds. :)

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Next up on the seemingly never-ending list of things to do to my little red wonder is the exhaust. Chevrolet, I love you, but you should be ashamed to let your V6 Camaro sound like a motorcycle. Shame.

Magnaflow Performance Exhaust is the best, hands down, and we will be installing their V6 cat-back system on my Camaro next.

SO STAY TUNED!!

Really.

-Jenn