Coupe design ideas

[jkrueger]

When I built my roadster one of the hardest decisions I made about it was what color to paint it. For the coupe I knew I wanted to paint it the traditional colors (blue w/white stripes). Until I talked to a friend of ours that owns a shop that does car wraps. She showed me some pictures and it got my mind thinking. She said anything we could think up we could do. Since this car is going to be mostly a track car I started thinking about some of the cool race car wraps I've seen. I went on my iracing car paint program and found a design I like and then I tried to mix it with the vintage look as well.

Another plus of the wrap is the cost (about $1500), the vinyl is very durable, she says it weighs less than paint, and it is easy to change my mind.

I know it is not a typical look for the coupe and I'll probably be berated for it, but tell me what you think. Go easy on my drawing though, I am no artist.

JC


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[BillBernice]

This car is not only appearance vogue movement, and also has great comfort and active safety, appearance is very fluent line, decorous and romantic, give a person the ubiquity of atmospheric, fashion.

[fixedgear]

As far as the drawings go, I like the Red - I would go with a Dark Silver or gunmetal Grey though. I think that would be cool.

You should draw some more with a different style, get rid of the racing stripes, go crazy.

How does the vinyl work. You have the red shell coupe from FFR. What is done after that as far as prep before the vinyl if there is any. I think this is a really cool idea.

[jkrueger]

As far as the drawings go, I like the Red - I would go with a Dark Silver or gunmetal Grey though. I think that would be cool.

You should draw some more with a different style, get rid of the racing stripes, go crazy.

How does the vinyl work. You have the red shell coupe from FFR. What is done after that as far as prep before the vinyl if there is any. I think this is a really cool idea.

The red ones are my favorites too. As far as going crazy, I'm just not that creative. I'll get my sister on it she has done a lot of graphic design work. I really just need to look at some other car designs and see if anything pops out at me.

I need to find out about the body prep needed for this as well. I'm thinking just get everything smooth and fitted and then stick it on.

JC

[jetsbaby]

The red examples look fantastic..!!! Definitely fit the all out racer track car!!

[loeffler1]

Not my cup of tea. Why ruin a good thing?

Bill

[Hankl]

It could be the white tires, bad roof line, etc, but it destroys the historic appeal of the Coupe.

Hank :cool:

[riptide motorsport]

I like the idea of a wrap and the price of $1500.00 is outstanding.......your friend will be very wealthy when everyone finds out the price, especially the brother Smith's new car which is supposed to get wrapped. I would have wrapped mine at that price point...Steven

[xlr8or]

Fugly.

[LDave]

I'm actually planning to wrap my car too, but no crazy designs. Just a solid color with some stripes. 1500 sounds like a really good deal, providing the work is good. I've been quoted aprox. 2500$ around here.

[jkrueger]

Maybe I'm wrong with the $1500. She told me $12/sqft installed. I figured 14'x8' and then added a bit more.

JC

[willy]

jkrueger what about body work I know has to be smoothed out and sanded but would I be abel to juust prime it then wrap over that or does it have to be painted for the vinyl to stick, would do vinyl if I just had to prime it then wrap

[tirod]

Well, it's very modern.

I've been looking into the wrap concept, and have seen cars done with it in Tulsa - tribal graphics over white on a Honda. For the money, you will be able to do some concepts that a conventional painter simply wouldn't touch for the money. It would cost 8-10,000 or more at the extreme. This is why wrapping will hurt the paint and body industry if they don't wake up and adopt it. No doubt the folks in LA are much more into it. And commercial applications are right there in your windshield, every computer toner delivery van in town, or franchise food delivery vehicle has wrap now.

There's also the advantage that if you don't like it - change it. As the price comes down, we'll see more gravitating to it. But one requirement still exists, the bodywork has to be smooth, and the substrate finish to spec, or it won't stick. That means some kind of sanding, prep, bodywork, and coating over the fiberglass. They are the ones to ask what is needed.

Just like paint, any defect in the surface will just be telegraphed in the final finish. No getting by cheap on that.

The Coupe owners as a whole are conservative, and they built them to emulate the period racers. So far, I'd say it's 90-10 to those who might start pushing the envelope. But - it's going to happen, the 20 to 1 ratio of roadsters to coupes will swing once others move to a rare body style that hasn't been exploited yet. They are more all weather, there are more options in custom body work, we ain't seen nothing yet.