89 Cutlass Ciera Race Car Build

[lemons bob]

We already have gold paint but we will keep those in case we get the retheme your car penalty.

[LordDurock]

intressing way to stand out.... i think your going to need a catchy name like "primal purple" in crazy letters on the side..idk bad name but yea.

[turbokinetic]

Two words: Blackberry Smoothie!!!

It looks just the same color as a blackberry smoothie from Smoothie King.

[SilentWing]

Two words: Blackberry Smoothie!!!

if you use this you could always make the antenna into a giant straw, although for safety reasons that might not be the best idea lol. Luke's sister has a purple Thunderbird, and he put "The Grape Ape" on the rear windshield in silver letters. Hopefully the blues brothers theme will work out the first time for you guys though!

[mechanizeddeath]

When I was in high school, one of my sister's friends drove a brown car that was called "The Brown Frown". I still laugh about that one from time to time. Actually, I'm pretty sure it was an A-body too.

Other car nicknames, for fun and inspiration:

Blue Bomber: My parents "ice blue" 1980s Plymouth Voyager.
Miss Vicky: My 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria, not too creative but hey.
Spooky: My sister's 1986 Dodge 600, with an erratic idle and intake issue that made it wail like a ghost.
Gray Menace: My 1992 Mercury Sable in Opal Gray.
Battle Wagon: My 1995 Subaru Outback, no real explanation.
Sara Ciera: My (current) 1996 Olds Ciera (named so as the former owner was named Sara.)
Twinkie Van: Dad's old GMC Savana work van, looked like a big white twinkie.

[lemons bob]

I just wished we had more fabrication skills, equipment, room to build, and imagination to pull off something like this one from the last race.

[occupant]

My 3-year old daughter wears that color every other day.

Garanimals FTW

[lemons bob]

Well it sounds like we will get your daughters approval.

I also just found out that Speed TV's Lucas Oil On The Edge show will be fillming the race. So our Garanimal Cutlass Ciera might make it on TV

[mechanizeddeath]

WOw that would actually be a good reason to watch some TV!

[lemons bob]

Quick update, race is this weekend, have a couple things to finish up tomorrow. THis weekend got lots done but fell a bit behind when one of the brake lines decided to spring a leak.

I'll try and tkae some pictures of the car in its full racing livery.

[lemons bob]

Well the car is about as ready as its going to be. Here are some pics of it from this morning. Its in the shade still so not quite as shiny and bright as it is in the sun. Should have some more pics this weekend, hopefully some in the sun.



Cutlass gave us permission to do this, he must not have known what he was doing.

[Duke George V]

Wow, that's definitely a twenty-footer.

[turbokinetic]

Like it!

[CamoDeafie]

I thought you were gonna run the old school 5 spokes? definitely looks decent! heck, the paint job;s better than some of the cars i've seen at RAT ROD shows!!

[lemons bob]

the goal with the paint job is for it to look good at 50 feet while its going 50mph, so 20 foot is ok.

Course now we have a new list of things to do, including figuring out what took us out at the end.

oh and we used the rally wheels too. we ended up using 3 tires on the front left. We have some understeer issues we have to figure out for next year. Power wise we weren't all that far off alot of the leaders, its cornering that made the big difference.