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IHI

Dropped the Road Whore, U-Haul cubie off at the paint shop Tues afternoon, they've already painted the parts I dropped off painted and waiting for truck (everything that unbolts from the truck I found a donor truck and took them in so down time was minimized) guy was hoping to have cab defects fixed today and primered then spray Fri morning and start reassembling Monday morning. Went to my decal buddy (graduated with him so get labor for free and just pay for the vinyl) and this is what we came up with for the final design. This truck is not true to form with mine, mine has the box going over the cab and is an '89 so is a lil older body style than the program pic he had, but idea comes across the same.



Main company sign comes out to roughly 8' wide and 4' tall, will have just name/number on area over the cab from front view, than another version of this on back roll up door. Flames will be polished diamond plate over black shadow. We laid it out without the black stripe down the box, but in all honesty it did'nt look right...just too much white, so we used the black to break it up some. Then the letters on the black area will be red over chrome for a little extra pop.

Flame on me about the flames all you want LOL!! I'm a car guy that races so needed a little flare and I'm sure it will help draw attention to the truck and hopefully the name will stick with folks after they do the double take or at stop lights:p Gett'n all excited and giddy now since the plan is finally coming together. Got my polished stainless wheel simulators just begging for a home and a new chrome bumper on the trailer waiting to get installed..ought to be pretty neat once it's done...least it'll match my other truck and race car-wifes laughs at the red color coordinated scheme I have going with everything.

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Tom R

Hey, - - I think it looks great, - - 'catchy' as hell, - - hard to forget that look!!

The flames look good, too, - - besides, they make you go faster, right??

Make sure you get us pics of the finished product.

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I wanted to personally take before pics, but wifey had camera packed away already for their trip to Kansas after thanksgiving, so I'm hoping my decal buddy still has the pics he took on his camera.

I really should've done this all before putting into service, but was soo tired of loading/unloading my truck everyday I could'nt wait LOL!!

Flames make you faster...the fact that these are "polished diamond plate" flames should give it even more umph poor ole non turbo diesel could use a shot in the arm anyways lugging all that weight as it is. During this summer I figured roughly the whole vehicle weight rating was around 15K when pulling to the track...worst part is this thing was still peppier and got better mpg than my pick pulling my stuff

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RobertCDF

You should paint the whole thing red after all red is a lighter paint and should give you another 5HP and get some of the stickers that the honda civics have you know that they have to help a bunch too.

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IHI

You mean the stickers that wrap over the hood and onto the front fender at an angle??? Then I'd have to sit down and figure out what angle to run them at for peak HP..lotta work goes into dem stickers. I've got a 10" chrome muffler in mind with LED tip on it to give my wanna be garbage truck diesel smoke spewin van a nasty raspy growl that'll make me the envy of the block yo!

Gonna remove all the marker lights on the truck and replace them with neon's that change color and flicker to the beat of my BASS....fo shizzle! New company outfits will be store bought faded and dirty appearing jeans that we hang just at half butt crack, tank tops and gold chains...we'll be off the chain mo fo's!! We'll have all the fly honey's want'n a ride in DA VAN!!:p Dem's my new target custamurs daaymn...thought u knew??

okay, that was ickey LMAO!!

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mdshunk

I think the flames are wacky. I know a fellow electrician who has his truck flamed, crome mag wheels, lots of chrome trinkets, tinted windows, etc. Judging from his truck, there might be some doubt as to whether he's an electrician or someone's pimp. It is an eye catcher, though.

Glasshousebltr

Pimp Daddy Power? Ice Power Pimp?......Daddy Power Pimper picked a pack of.............

The truck will look good IHI.

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Grumpy

My opinion is ditch the flames. Everything else looks great.

IHI

Grump, I can understand your reluctancy (is that a word to the flames. Most flame jobs I've seen, even on high dollar paint jobs can look gawdy, I'm doing this strictly as an eye catching marketing plow. They'll see the flames on this big friggin van, think to themselves, naaahh, then look again and will look to see who's van it is. Think of it like watching a train wreck.

I took the idea from a now buddy of mine, before i met him I kept seeing this really nice looking dump truck with his name on the box..I always knew who's truck it was because he's the only dump truck in this are that's in really nice shape and is flamed. Many people over the years I've talked to have mentioned that truck....I have no doubt my flames will perform as intended-draw attention to the truck with all the info they need and it will spark up non chalant converstions here and there and may help sell one job or more..gota keep the flames, otherwise it's just "another" cube van-even if it looks gawdy to folks, it will be different that the many others running around town and that's what I want!!

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Way to go

Tom R

IHI, - - I completely agree with your 'flame-theory'.

It's a great marketing ploy.

It indeed gets you 'remembered'.

Flame On, brother!!

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IHI

I picked the van up Tues afternoon, installed the wheel sims yesterday when I had a short break between scheduled jobs and have been hoppin ever since, got salt in the truck and plow on so heading back out again to do the fun stuff so friggin tired right now already from running around on a few hrs sleep the past few days it might be a few days before I recoup.

Sat we're supposed to install the vinyl graphics-"supposed to" since everything has taken a little longer to get done already LOL. Soon as I get a chance I post a pic...as of now the pretty new cab is covered in slushy dirty iceicles(sp?)

Josh

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Grumpy

I know why you were doing the flames BEFORE you posted. The idea of grabbing attention is a great one. I just wouldn't use that idea on my own trucks. That's just my own personality.

I've got a pretty eye catching bright orange logo of my own which I plan to plaster on all my vehicles. I haven't gotten them lettered yet, but it is my hope that the big orange logo grabs people's attention like the flames will.

IHI

I had big orange signs printed up on all my helpers shirts so homies would watch out and not run into their slow azzes LMAO!!!

Orange and Yellow really grab attention, We/I see soo many white, black, red, green trucks running around they all kinda blend in together, but the ones that have different lettering always catch my eye, so your definately onto something.

Just hoping we get a snow break, been running around like an idiot lately salting and plowing, then trying to work smaller jobs in between all that...gonna be an early night tonight and hopefully all will go as planned so i can get some logo's on the van Sat., makes me sick, picked it up 2 days ago all pretty and shiney, now it's completely covered with iceicles and brown frozen slush gotta love the midwest.

Grump, if your not already doing it, and looking for some winter time $$$, start salting, this is my first year giving it a try and wow can you make great money fast and easy. Am keping my eye out now for a 3/4-1 ton truck I can either outfit with a flat bed or fit a V box spreader in that's dedicated solely to this process, getting lots of calls for the stuff and literally cant keep up and am forced to turn down large commercial lots that would net mega bucks, going to look at a big one tomorrow since it's close to my other place, but that will literally be my limit with current set-up, did'nt want anything big and fancy for first year to see how'd it'd go-shoulda went big and fancy. Owner of this particular lot told me it's mine, did'nt even ask what the cost would be, just said whatever it is it's gonna be cheaper than if somebody fell or a car slide and got wrecked...smart man!!

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