~Amy Donahue
signage consultant
Funny? You calling me funny? Do I amuse you?”“No, but your car does. It has no doors.”
For those of you over 50 years old, you already know what a “funny car” is. For the rest of us, (ha) it’s actually a fiberglass reproduction of a real car that is raced in the quarter-mile drag strips all over the world.
The bodies are hinged at the back of a special chassis to allow the driver to get in and out, usually have enormous engines, and travel the quarter-mile strip in fewer than five seconds.
This car happens to be an “Opel Cadet”, of German decent. The real cars were imported here in the late ’60s and were very popular.
Here’s the “owner-driver” Mike backing the car into the shop. Good thing it was on Saturday. Can you say loud?
When he called me about lettering the car, he wanted to make sure that I could letter the car like the late ’60s and ’70s racers. I assured him that I was old enough to remember how they were done.
His only request was that he wanted engine turned aluminum leaf for the name, “Wild Cherry”, on the sides. The rest was pretty much up to me. He also wanted some graphics to break up the sides.
Creating the lettering was a breeze using my Flexi program. The paint mask used was R Tape; it’s the best! I used Oracal premium vinyl for the lettering that was not hand painted. The lettering and graphics were done with 1 Shot’s lettering enamel.
