Fade to Black

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

If you were at Festiva Madness 7 and you saw a matte black Festiva it was my car. What most people didn't realize is that it was a vinyl wrap that my brother put on for me. He does vinyl application on race cars and a variety of different things and he and I had a conversation jokingly one day about me wanting to paint my then red Festiva matte black. Over the next few weeks he began saving me ends of rolls from work and when I went to his house one weekend he showed them to me and we hatched a plan for what we needed to do. One day in June of 2012 he had a day off work on a Friday and he brought his 4 year old daughter over and "they" wrapped my car.


My brother removing the Festiva emblem. His daughter is telling him how to do it.

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He has to clean the car with a special solvent and take the whippers off.

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The back before

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The hood before

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Laying out the vinyl for the hood

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My niece measuring how much daddy needs.

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The hood finished and my niece still taking measurements. Notice he even got the hood vents next to the whippers.

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Since I was at my shop I was working and didn't get as many pictures as I wanted. This is the side done and the above the door in progress. Now is the using a razor to trim and a tool to tuck and make everything look nice.

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Still working

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He said the back was the hardest part because of the angles around the top edges of the hatch. We just said the hell with and and vinyled over the dents

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My dad's freaken dog pissed on my wheels :gritteeth:

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Doing the grill took him about an hour. He had to piece together several pieces in order to get all the angles.

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Me taking a picture of my niece pretend driving

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

Here is the finished product:

Yes I wear the hat in the car when I have the windows down

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Driver's side

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Rear quarter

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Passenger Quarter

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[bravekozak]

Wouldn't it have been easier and faster just to paint it Sherwin-Williams ordnance flat black paint? It sprays on dry to the touch. I would go for the chrome vinyl wrap if he had offered. You need that RH mirror in my other post "on the bay". Sorry, I already sold my rear hatch to bert. It came from a yard in Georgia. Good luck.

[batstiva]

I like it. Black is the color all cars naturally yearn to be. Nice job!

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

Wouldn't it have been easier and faster just to paint it Sherwin-Williams ordnance flat black paint? It sprays on dry to the touch. I would go for the chrome vinyl wrap if he had offered. You need that RH mirror in my other post "on the bay". Sorry, I already sold my rear hatch to bert.

Anyone can spray, no one has a vinyled Festiva. Plus everything was free

[Prafeston]

Very cool! But you should have had him do the inner door pieces and the top of the inner back hatch! Also you need to paint the seem underneath the rockers black!

[bravekozak]

Black is not a color.

Ordnance paint absorbs radar. It is a two part that you can only get with connections.

You are right. If you got a chrome wrap, your Festiva would probably be stolen.

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

Here are some before pics I found on my facebook:

Here I was taking off the old stickers. Then my brother told me he could take them off is a blow torch in 45 mins.

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That section in front if the rear tire took me 45 mins alone!!!

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

Very cool! But you should have had him do the inner door pieces and the top of the inner back hatch! Also you need to paint the seem underneath the rockers black!

I actually wanted him to leave them red. He actually offered. I have a grand plan for all of it!

[festyfreak39]

so gangster vinyl wrap is awesome.

[blkfordsedan]

Looks great! I've been thinking about having the hood on my 04 Mustang wrapped in matte black. There's a couple small spots where the clear coat is starting to peel (just on the hood, which has been repainted). I'm thinking it may be a quick and easy alternative until I can afford to have the hood repainted properly.

[shadetree]

NICE !!! I been looking for prices on getting one of mine done ! Could you have him work me up a price and pm me ? it would be on the ken block theme printed ! lmk
Good work for free !!!!!!

[TheNewAmericanSpirit]

NICE !!! I been looking for prices on getting one of mine done ! Could you have him work me up a price and pm me ? it would be on the ken block theme printed ! lmk
Good work for free !!!!!!

Well he told me he's never do another festiva again because it took him 7 hours . . . way more than he expected. I asked him how much it would have all cost and he said that if I got the place he works at to do it it would have cost me a least $1200 in material and labor. Printed would probably ad another $500-600. This stuff isn't cheap, another reason why I wanted it done especially for free

[shadetree]

uuuuuurrrccccchhhhhhh scratch my last post , haha nevermind bro still looks good thou lol

[bravekozak]

I wish I had a brother. I'm scared to ask how much the chrome wrap would cost. I bet a Ken Block wrap would cost three times as much. You could just get matte wrap + Ford logo for the hood.