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this time proven on the TLC show "Rides"
a group of college students/teachers in an automotive program were recruited by GM to make over an old malibu to enter it into the SEMA show for the GM booth.
so it rolls in, pretty decent condition with an "ok" orange paint job, black rally stripes, a black top, and a black interior.
they give the kids 100 days or so to "completley reinvent the car and make it into a show-stopping ride worth of cometing at SEMA" ok...fair enough.
so they get to work on it...completley redoing the car and dropping in a new 572...lookin pretty good. they go to paint and lay down an absolutley BITCHIN paint job. yes....it was orange, and i was skeptical at first thinking "great...orange...again". and then they laid down ghosted rally stripes by mixing in a bit of red to the orange they just laid down again thinking "OK, ENOUGH WITH THE ORANGE!!!" but by the time they were done laying down all the metalics and translucent-multi-facuted pearls and gobs of clear, i was absolutley in LOVE with the car. has so much depth and shine and the ghosted stripes were just STUNNING. i was thinking to myself "ya know, even with all the orange, it will actually be a pretty sweet ride!" yeah well...ahem...fast foward to the last 1/3 of the show.
hmm, i dont see the bitchin paint job i once saw. i see just a bland gloss orange and...whats this??? black rally stripes? oh ok...they must be showing footage from earlier in the segment. wait...wait. hmm, sure seems to be alot of this "old" scheme in there..and now their putting the new interior back in.
well wouldent you know it. the grumps at the GM HQ overruled the killer paint job and yup..you guessed it...made them put it RIGHT BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS WHEN IT ROLLED INTO THE SHOP. yeah..so much for "one of a kind, show stopping SEMA quality". the thing looked just a bad as when it first came in the door.
so all in all, they throw on some new bling wheels, an in-dash nav/cd combo system, some speakers, new engine..and thats about it. it rolled back out of the shop with an "ok" orange paint job, black rally stripes, black top, black interior...yeah, sure looks like show quality. yeah...an "all new design" eh?
WAY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THERE GM....NO WONDER NOBODY IS EXCITED ABOUT YOUR LINEUP ANYMORE! -----------------------------------------
2011 Nissan Xterra Pro-4x
2007 Kawasaki Ninja 650R
1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse RS-NX 75 shot, AEM CAI, P&P t/b and intake mani-SOLD
1964 Buick Electra 225-all original, all power options, 325hp, 445ft/lbs tq
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