What have you done to make your car/truck/suv yours?

[leehype]

Decals, accents, shift knobs, paint?

You don't have to know how to rebuild an engine to make your car represent you. What have you done to make your car yours? I like customizing cars, and have found some great ideas.

Hear are some that I have done.

I hate the dealership decal that they put on my Jeep, and whats worse, I couldn't take it off. I upgraded my clutch to a Centerforce Stage 1, and put the Centerforce decal over the dealer logo.

PIC (http://www.leehype.com/cent.JPG)

I have some Xtreme logo's over the Jeep emblems on the sides.

PIC (http://www.leehype.com/xtreme.JPG)

My favorite as of late is my rear diff cover, it is a custom made forged steel cover that is 1/2 inch thick with 1 inch reinforcement splines. It has LeeHype cast into it as well. It is powder coated black and I took some 300 MPH tape and set it in to bring out the letters better.

PIC (http://www.leehype.com/lee.JPG)

I know I'm not the only person that does shit like this. What have ya'll done?

[Gea]

I put coconut air fresheners in the car. My car didn't smell bad but the smell wasn't characteristic of me. Sounds strange, but its true.

Other than that it was cleaning her. I won her at an auction (for cheaps) and she needed a cleaning pretty badly. I'm gonna miss her for a few days when I fly home for Christmas. :sad:

Edit: To clarify... I wouldn't decal her. She's "gold" (read: tan) and putting anything on her body would just look wrong. I'll probably replace her cracked dash and put in a new radio if I have the spare cash, but for now I just don't let her get into disrepair.

I need to name her.

[Bathory]

We have a domo air freshner in our HHR because it looks like an angry poop. We have stickers on the back window. One says "I <3 ZOMBIES", one is a Lucky 13 sticker, and I think we have a Burning Angel sticker, too. On my Cavalier, I've got a sticker supporting my tattoo shop, a sticker supporting my main artist, a Burning Angel sticker, an I <3 Zombies sticker, and a sticker for Norma Jean's cd "Redeemer".

[bracham]

I don't usually do much besides put in my own CD player, and sometimes my amp and subs. I'm thinking that this summer I'll tint the windows on my Cavy (at least the three back ones), but other than that I doubt I'll do much.

Personally I like my vehicles to have a clean look, even without make/model emblems if they're ugly or not in good shape. I guess that's from my mindset of liking a sleeper: a high powered vehicle that has no external signs of being modified.

[kich]

Here's my plans for my truck (Chevy K1500)

1. Take off the running board steps that came with it. I'll probably replace them withclick (http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Pod/01/91/20/p019120hz06.jpg) or tube steps like click (http://http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Pod/03/63/46/p036346sq07.jpg)
2. Grill guard like click (http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Pod/03/64/36/p036436sq04d.jpg)
3. diamond plate running board protection, I'll probably have to cut them myself.
4. new radio, speakers. I'm leaning towards Alpine with an Ipod cord attachment.

[Jane Deere]

i throw my garbage in the back seat and clean it up once every few months. ya, thats right. no one else wants it because i personalized it so well hahaha

[leehype]

i throw my garbage in the back seat and clean it up once every few months. ya, thats right. no one else wants it because i personalized it so well hahaha


LOL, by keeping a fresh coat of trash on the floor, you can prevent dirt from ever touching the carpet.

[Unforgiven]

I bought it.

[leehype]

I bought it.

Did you also put some money to get it licensed with a plate that has numbers and letters on it?

[Unforgiven]

Yes.

Not custom though. I can't afford that. :sad:

[Icarus]

My first car, which was a piece of shit, (legally) totalled with a caved-in-left-side, totally hardcore 1988 Camry, was modified extensively.

I put in a Cobra Head shift knob.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z176/taylor_smythe/shiftknob.jpg

It had spinner rims!
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Flames on the hood.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z176/taylor_smythe/hoodflames.jpg

Huge Magnetic racing numbers (got stolen when car was impounded).

New badges (I named the car Judwiga and put on chrome letters that said that instead of Camry).

Chrome badge of Radioactive sign

See-through dice cigarette lighter.

Stickers of porn websites (came with the car when I bought it).

WTF BUSH bumper sticker.
Dumbass George Bush air freshener.

And, of course, a sick-ass sound system.

There was a lot more, I just can't really remember anymore :sad:

[leehype]

I had a chrome skull shift knob in my 82 that had light up eyes, and I cut a hole in an 8 ball and have that in my jeep. I was trying to modify a shifter for my Escort, but never got anywhere. I finally caved and got a B&M ratchet shifter but destroyed the car right after getting it.

[dull_bullet]

There's an obnoxiously large and bright NASA sticker on the back of the Civic I drive. There are also a bunch of school parking permits from years past.

[leehype]

There's an obnoxiously large and bright NASA sticker on the back of the Civic I drive. There are also a bunch of school parking permits from years past.

Hey, it's cheaper and easer than bondo.

[UberSkippy]

I drove it off a 2 foot ditch embankment, bent the frame and fucked up the running boards.

Oh, and it got shot once with a .45 How and why aren't important.

You all just bolt shit on. I customize.

[53V3N]

What do you charge for custom jobs like that?

[leehype]

I drove it off a 2 foot ditch embankment, bent the frame and fucked up the running boards.

Oh, and it got shot once with a .45 How and why aren't important.

You all just bolt shit on. I customize.

Sounds like you had a hell of a time...

[UberSkippy]

Sounds like you had a hell of a time...

It's been a hell of a truck.

[leehype]

It's been a hell of a truck.

Whats her name then?

[Gea]

Whats her name then?

Rosie 'O. She's a dyke of a truck, takes a lickin' and keeps on kickin'.

[UberSkippy]

Whats her name then?

Don't got a name. It's just a truck. If I named it I'd feel bad about abusing it. As it stands, I abuse the hell out of it and it just keeps coming back for more.

It's a 1996 Ford Ranger. Poopoo it all you want, I can't think of a vehicle made today that'd take the crap I've done and run half as well.

[AdrenaLyn]

Right now my non running 96 pontiac sunfire (yay for husband killing the headgasket) is green with lovely dents and the front bumper held on with fishing line and jb weld. On the back dent I have a giant band aid sticker. I have seat covers that are pleather with flaming skull heads and lucky 13 pigtailed skull steering wheel cover....I also have stickers on the back windshield....a giant our lady of guadalupe, 2 sacred hearts, 4 nautical stars and a nekromantix coffin sticker.

However....My POS is getting the sweet treatment when the tax return swings by. Im getting all the body and engine work done, repainting it bubblegum pink with metal flake, I have a set of silver bullhorns going on the hood...I am also making furry pink leopard print seatcovers and getting a custom vinyl stickers for the back that shall read in a classy pink cursive script "PINK STINK".

It will be the ultimate chick car. and alllll the boys will wanna ride in the pink stink.

[mdotpandie]

My first car, I had a sticker that said, "My other ride is your mom". I actually had someone get out of their car at a red light and tell me that they lolled.

I had a little '89 Isuzu Space Cab for my third vehicle. Bumper sticker: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me" She had a seriously hard time going up hills. Accelerating was out of the question. I named her Samson.

My current car is in the goddamn, mother fucking shop. I had to change the key and tumbler part of the ignition, so I don't get to use the badass little VW keys. :mad: I think I'll name her Cunt Face Asshole Breath Bitch.

[<Awesomness>]

94 Integra, bought with Intake, and Exhaust.

I have since put in-
-Kenwood Headunit
-Alpine Type-R 12" sub
-Kenwood Sub amp
-Alpine Type-R component speakers in the front, and 6" Type-R's in the back
-Kenwood 4 channel speaker amp, pushing about 60rms to all the speakers
-Tsunami 2 farad capacitor

-Koni Yellow Shocks
-Ground Control Springs
-Kosi Ks's wrapped in some shitty Nitto tire for now
-Front and rear strut tower bars
-Front and rear sway bars
-Ive got about a 2 finger fender gap all around right now

-Stage 3 clutch

So far that's it. But I am planning on swapping the B18 next year with either a K20 or a GSR motor. I also want to get a turbo, but I don't know if I am going to make the boost leap on a daily driver, especially with snow. FWD turbo is no good in the snow. I also have plans for racing seats upfront and a Sparco harness bar, unless I can find a deal on a full cage. I want Bride seats, but they are just a tad out of my price range :lol:.

Road coarse is my goal for next year, but autoX is fine with me.

[kich]

My first car (I still have it) was a '92 Jeep Cherokee. I still have it, I swear it's impossible to get that thing stuck. I've dropped it into ice and water up to the windows and still got out without help, as odd as that sounds. In a few years when the Jeep is about ready to die, I'm going to treat the old lady to a traditional 'Gaswell funeral'.


I want to get a bumper sticker for my truck that says 'your son may be an honor student, but your daughter has double-d's and my son knows it!'

[HotSauceAddict]

I replace my car peice by piece and a new seat cover every so often (since I only have one seat in my two seater) and a cactus on the ant. He used to have a cowboy hat but lost it in the rodeo.

[sugarsickness]

I'm with Jane on this one, tossing my garbage in the back is the way for me unfortunately. :( Every car I touch becomes a disaster area, haha.

[BrIONwoshMunky]

3rd gen Ford Ranger FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN

Me, I just drive mine and change the oil.

Oh, and just last week I bought an original center cap to replace the one I lost. $10.85 BIZNITCHES!

I spend my time screamin around with my 140k+ miles, 105-HP, 2.3-Liter, dual-spark-plugged, beast-of-a-4-cylinder engine coupled to the awsomeness of a Mazda M5OD-R1 5 speed (with overdrive) manual transmission driving a set of 225 70R 14 tires on stock 14" aluminum rims. Kept on the road with shitty ass Napa Parts generic shocks.

Feeling the power pin me to the seat, I accelerate from 0-55 (which is optimal for gas mileage) in about 4 minutes. Consequently that takes half of my commute to work. Upon finally reaching maximum velocity, I cruise like a cougar on the prowl, avoiding every pothole like the plague, fearing the time I actually hit one and almost bounce into orbit or break the whole truck right in half. Freeway driving results in a brown ring on the drivers seat as my asshole puckers tight from getting caught in Semi-truck slipstream and getting whipped around like a dead leaf. It's only saving grace is that I have absolutely no blind spot because the truck roughly about 3 inches larger than a Ford Festiva with a better view.

I must also always be on the lookout for the phantom wipers which will spontaneously turn themselves on admist an idle cruise into town or a hellride on a late trip to work. These effects are soon negated by my flicking the "god stick" that controls wipers, brights, and turn signals as it mockingly juts out of my steering column. Cursing doesn't fix it.

When I turn it off, the incessant mocking "door open" dinging will not stop even when I remove the keys unless I wiggle the ignition. Again, cursing doesn't fix it.

It has slayed 3 deer to date, and has bondo in the front driver's side quarter panel, a new front bumper, grill assembly, both headlights, and a narsty ding in the hood as badges of honor commerating it's destruction of some of Earth's most cuddily creatures. Also, the rear driver's side quarter panel has bondo covering a drunken ditch cleaning and subsequent ditch removal adventure. The rear bumper is still bent, and the tail light has a piece popped off but still functions flawlessly.

Tire chains for particularlly nasty weather are housed in the diamond plate, Husky (from Home Depot, (bought partly with a $50 gift card that was supposed to buy me an entire $199 toolbox) full lid, lockable, toolbox covering a full 1/2 of the bed's space, leaving me with a massive 32.4 (give or take, I'm not going to really measure) inches of actual usable space, and creating a nice cavity beneath it to horde leftover cans, leaves, sticks, and yes, (at times) potatoes, that happen to venture under there.

The only saving grace is the CD-player which has migrated from the Plymouth Reliant K, to the Crysler Town and Country station wagon, and into my Ranger. It plays music. Which actually doesn't sound too bad in the stock speakers.

It gets me where I need to go at ~24 MPG and can go about 350-390 miles on a tank of gas. Resulting in fill-ups currently costing about $45 and lasting about 3 weeks.

I'm considering this my first vehicle as mom and dad were kind enough to purchase and pay insurance on the other two. I'm also probably going to drive it litterally till the wheels fall off. Which reminds me, the last time I got the tires rotated, they told me the front wheel bearings were loose... probably ought to do something about that...

[padfootsy]

I drive a red 1994 Nissan Sentra that is ghetto as fuck. There is a 3 foot+ crack in the windshield, no fabric on the roof of the car, and the visors are made out of plywood and have holes in them.

So I put red plaid fabric on the roof, and I am going to fix the visors soon. I haven't gotten a new windshield yet though. I'm making seat covers for my car right now too.

I'm not adding anything to the engine or any of that hit because I have no fucking idea how cars work.

[Tostig]

i peed on mine before it ever left the car lot.

[funk]

I put some 17" konig aluminum wheels
New euro lights
tints
new bumper
and a bad ass stereo!
4 Matrix 12 inch woofers
2 pionerr door speakers
2 pioneer 6x9's
1400 watt lanzar amp for subs
800 watt pionerr amp for highs
intake and exhaust(fart can)

[DirtyBird]

Awesome thread.

My car isn't so much customized as it is upgraded...

Koni adjustable racing shocks, IROC springs, Wonderbar (brace for the steering box/lower subframe rails), subframe connectors, long tube headers, 3 inch dual exhaust, Air/Fuel ratio gauge, silverface gauges, and soon a new 350ci custom built high performance smallblock.

Some pics:

http://a150.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/34/l_b992e1740bf2f03e1591b998e16787a 5.jpg

http://a925.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/98/l_eb0990e417626304c2650c93563625d 4.jpg
(Shiny steel tubing on the sides with a cross-bar are the subframe connectors)

http://a667.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/49/l_1bfad072c3d52e07f9876b22eb91aa3 2.jpg
On stands yesterday while the connectors were getting welded in. Notice the suspension is fully loaded which ensures the connectors go on straight. Yellow Koni strut poking out right there too.

http://a856.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/21/l_431527775f3dcb38b4febceaf5112d8 f.jpg
These are my gauges, they look white without flash.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/DirtyBird133/100_5752.jpg

[mdotpandie]

Damn, DB. It's an AUTOMATIC?! I'm sorely disappointed. :sad:

[DirtyBird]

Damn, DB. It's an AUTOMATIC?! I'm sorely disappointed. :sad:

90 Percent of all 82-92 Camaros are Automatic because the T-5 5-speed is notoriously weak and wont stand up to a realy powerful motor. You can put a T56 in it (I plan to do it when I get rich) but that will cost around $2000 all things accounted for because you have to convert everything to do it.

5-speed camaros are rare, although putting a newer 6-speed in it is something I fantasize about. :redface:

[Ball Masher]

I stole it. That seemed to work haha.

[Tostig]

90 Percent of all 82-92 Camaros are Automatic because the T-5 5-speed is notoriously weak and wont stand up to a realy powerful motor. You can put a T56 in it (I plan to do it when I get rich) but that will cost around $2000 all things accounted for because you have to convert everything to do it.

5-speed camaros are rare, although putting a newer 6-speed in it is something I fantasize about. :redface:

That's awesome. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, and it was an automatic.




I love my jeep. I made it mine by getting my manly stink all in it, along with dog musk because molly gets carsick. Plus it has a lot of my stuff in it. It's mine.

[leehype]

That's awesome. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, and it was an automatic.




I love my jeep. I made it mine by getting my manly stink all in it, along with dog musk because molly gets carsick. Plus it has a lot of my stuff in it. It's mine.

/me shivers


ewwwwwww

Remind me to never let you drive my Jeep.