I appreciate that - and I get that kinda comment alot-

I Just want to clarify also - that my flames are a CUSTOM PAINT JOB and cannot be achieved with a 'deacal.'

When I mentoned "frost" before, I was thinking decal.

But what I would really LOVE to see on someone's Pure Silver or Dark Silver colored MINI, is a graphic (I lean toward flames) that is done in a "Chamelion" type of paint job, meaning, that the color of the graphic changes with the light, and have that done in a "ghost" type fashion.

I think that would totally hot. I suggested it to someone I met at MTTS and they said it was a good possibility.

-B

 

Custom Paint is the only way to go!!!!!!! For a truly unique Mini that is. Sure you can peel the vinyl off if you do not like it. But you can not dispute how a nice paint job looks compared with any vinyl graphics.

Check out my gallery or visit www.lambspeed.com

 

See, I'd say that it's better to go vinyl... Maybe it's just me, but I think the ability to change the car's look a year or two out is a valuable thing. Painting shows a greater committment, sure, but it's much more expensive and God forbid you change your mind after 9 months... Honestly, I've seen some pretty impressive vinyl applications on all kinds of cars - it seems like a bad vinyl job is no more fugly than a badly done custom flame airbrush, and honestly, some of the most terrible, eye-bending graphics I've ever seen were airbrushed.

Maybe I just have a short attention span, but I know from a lifetime of doing art that there's no inherent "nobility" in the materials you chose to use for a project... A dog turd gilded in gold foil is still a dog turd.

 

But there is a major difference between the two pictures....these flames are very sutble and attractive, whereas imo the decal is NOT. From the picture it's like "wow, what did he do? Something looks different..." Then you get up close and you can see the outlines of the flames, very subtle imo. The decal work would be like a slam in your face. My first reaction would most likely be "rice" and I think a MINI should be all about you...but I also think "rice" is NOT for a MINI.

I also vote on paint. While it is expensive, it will look correct, and I think you'll be happier with it.

My $0.02, try a more subtle design that flows a little better, and consider doing it with a ghost or frost appearence.

-Cody

 

OMG... that looks great!

 

whoa! the MINI in front of the Kenworth! VERY COOL STUFF!

 

I've seen a DS with ghost flames... lemme see if I can find it... brb

EDIT: he took the picture down and he doesn't have pics of the flames in his gallery

 

If you want, go see Chainsaw Flowerchild's gallery. He's got an EB with frost flames. It looks so so so nice in person.

 

I use decals because Wanda likes an annual makeover!

 

Go with what YOU like. Do you think I cared what people thought about my old Solid Gold MINI. No, because I did it for MYSELF, and nobody else. Plus with vinyl, you can change it out, unlike my wife's Celica, which she was dead set on painting the dragon down the side of her car. Now she has to have the car repainted to change her design.

 

GORGEOUS!

 

Definitely impressive!

 

If you like the X-Men logo, you should go with that...who cares about it being an ad for the movie. And yes, you will be known as the girl with the _______________ MINI. I should know...

 

Thanks for saying that. I still think I'm going to think on it a bit and figure it out after I've driven the car for a couple of weeks. My son has already said that if I do something "weird" to the car, he won't ride in it. HA... he'll change his mind!

 

If you want to put flames on a car, you better buy a 32 Ford!
It's your car, and your decision is final...but a big BRG racing stripe top to bottom front to rear, maybe with a black border stripe, would be more in keeping with what you're driving. I wouldn't flame a Mini any more than I'd flame a Ferrari or a Caterham or a Grinnall Scorpion. Turn the tables...think about a 40 Ford coupe with a Union Jack on the roof...or a BRG racing stripe. Put some driving lights on it while you're at it. Uh uh!
Tom (Grinnall S3 - no flames!)
"There'll always be an England."
John Burdette-Hall Burdette Norton / Sacramento 1974

 

Geez. Here we go.

Another MINI driver who thinks doing anything ELSE but stripes, checkers, or a Union Jack is akin to spitting on Winston Churchill's grave, and pissing on a Beefeater guarding Buckingham Palace.

I say "more in keeping with what you're driving" is a misnomer. A MINI owner is more keyed in to 'self-expression' than most other car owners. ONE of the reasons they bought a MINI in the first place is about standing out in the crowd. ESPECIALLY the ones that go ahead and put graphics (whether it be stripes or POLKA DOTs!) on their beloved MINIs.

Lighten up Mr. Britania. The Empire is intact (mostly) - and individual graphics appearing on a MINI won't sink its reputation, its history, nor its Prestige.

I would think that someone like you wouldn't even DRIVE a MINI considering the fact that MINI is now GERMAN OWNED!!! Oh, heaven HELP Britania!!:impatient

-B

 

I had flames on my first MINI

 

WHAT?!?!? No Union Jack? No stripes???!?!?!!? Blasphemy! I don't care how good that looks - it will NEVER do!!