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Posted by Matt (93SE) on June 13, 2002 at 14:48:36:
In Reply to: We got our GMC truck done in hand pinstripe.....looks sooo good, the dude did it absolutely free hand too! Pretty impressive...nm posted by James on June 13, 2002 at 14:14:43:
he'd open up this wooden box, grab some paper towels and bottle of cleaner of some sort and wipe down the area, then mix up some paint.. the whole time, his whole body is shaking like Michael J Fox.. twitching hands, etc etc.. scared me to death to think he'd be putting paint on a car. then soon as he puts the paint on the brush, the twitching is gone and he does a quick swipe down the car and it's done! if you wanted more stripes, he'd change brushes (twitching the whole time) then go by and do the next stripe.. He'd thank people for their business, pack up his stuff and wobble on to the next car. he'd have cars stacked 6-8 deep waiting in line for him, and at $40+ each car, you know he had to be banking some cash!
Several years back, we were at a beach in FL.. there was this rickety old man doing pinstripes on people's cars for $30-200, depending on what you wanted.
You'd tell him what you want and hand him some cash..
: : : not on my last car. I was going to remove it because it was fading away. I walked around the car examining it once and I got to the rear passenger side and I was amazed at how good it looked. I went to poke at it and quickly figured out that the quarter panel had been redone and that they put a fresh clearcoat over the whole thing including the pinstripe.