If you want your Camaro to stand out in a crowd, nothing does it better than some sort of graphics. Now, it could be anything as wild (and tasteless) as a big ass dragon on the hood or as subtle as a simple pinstripe. The possibilities are literally endless.
Since we were busting out the paint gun, we figured it was a good time to fix some of the
Recently, we gave our 2001 Camaro Z28 an attitude adjustment with the addition of an SS hood from Classic Industries and a few bits from RK sport. While those parts did a ton to liven up the aesthetics of our Camaro, it now looked pretty much like every black SS on the road. What our car needed was a little personality, namely in the form of stripes.
Once we decided to do a little custom paint on Black Betty, the next question was the design. We wanted it to be something that wouldn’t go out of style (remember back when tribal stripes were considered cool?), so we hit up artist Tavis Highlander (www.tavishighlander.com) for ideas. He does some amazing car renderings and he came up with a design that would look as good in ten years as it does today. Paint isn’t cheap, so using an artist like Highlander is a great idea if you want to get it right the first time. Another catalyst to getting this done was that the crew at Aggressive Designs in Santa Fe Springs, California, were toally into the project. They had just helped us install and paint our Z28’s new body panels and thought the Camaro still needed a bit more love, and who were we to argue?
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Before rolling into the paint booth, most of the Camaro was papered off to protect from ov
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Once in the booth, the rest of the car could be masked off, including the SS hood that alr
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Our fourth-gen suffered from a common ailment where paint bubbled on the roof hoop. Back i
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Aggressive Designs’ painter, James Sterwart, started out by mixing up the Transtar Empress
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Stewart then hit the Camaro with several coats of fresh black paint.
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After giving the new paint time to set up, Boldman went about laying Black Betty’s new gra
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Once Boldman had the stripe looking just right, he used some -inch fine line tape to defin
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This left us with a great guide to mask off the rest of the car. To make life easier, Bold
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Boldman’s main gig is painting custom artwork on motorcycles. As such, his shop is decorat
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With the color for the stripe laid down, Boldman could then pull off all of the paper and
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To add a bit more punch, we hit the stripe with an accent pinstripe of blood red. Once tha
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After drying for a week, Boldman gave all the freshly painted panels a good dose of cuttin
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The end result came out better than we had hoped. The stripe follows the body lines of our
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When we installed the new hood and rear spoiler, we had also repainted the tail panel of t