A car becomes a legend
When Tim originally brought up this entire trip, the immediate clause that came with it was that the car had to look cool. He already had his printed pictures of the 89 Mitsubishi rally car and he knew what he wanted to see. Working to get the car to look like that was not as easy as we had hoped for. While we connected with a handful of vinyl specialists around the area, we learned a few things. For one, the work involved to wrap the rear of the car is going to need the expensive vinyl to make it look right. The second thing we learned is that we are terrible at coordinating schedules with vinyl guys around town to make all of this come together. Between a ham-fisted juggling of work and One Lap, we have been challenged for sleep, let alone having sit down sessions with vinyl guys to go through the details.
So this week Tim is pulling out his trusted paint gun, affectionately called Bettie. OK, it isn’t actually called Bettie, but it added something to the story. I stopped over to help prep the car a little. My role was to add my anal retentiveness to the project by insisting to remove every emblem, lock set, and spoiler I could before Tim walked around to the back of the car.
Tim had already had the diamond laid out on the hood when I arrived and was starting to wrap the car, so I moved pretty quick to salvage the rear end parts off the car. There is also a tricky bit of paint work that would have to be done with the spoiler in place, as the stripes terminate there for one portion of the work.
We worked together to try and get a straight line down the side of the car, which was more challenging than you would think. With a few tired eyes confirming the stripes would look pretty damn straight, I headed off to home for bed, while Tim prepared for scuffing and prep work. 
