Viper police car
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Dear all,
Thanks to the posts on the other thread, I've got our guys hopefully getting the parts for my Viper. The reason for the sudden replacement parts is that I'm putting the car into this year Top Gear Live show. It will be fully decal'd up to look like a police car, and will be in pursuit of some street racers in a live driving sequence.
I've actually gone through 14 redesigns of the police car livery for the Viper, as each one seemed to rob it of its balls. Attached is a UK police livery example:
Thanks to the posts on the other thread, I've got our guys hopefully getting the parts for my Viper. The reason for the sudden replacement parts is that I'm putting the car into this year Top Gear Live show. It will be fully decal'd up to look like a police car, and will be in pursuit of some street racers in a live driving sequence.
I've actually gone through 14 redesigns of the police car livery for the Viper, as each one seemed to rob it of its balls. Attached is a UK police livery example:
So after 14 versions, I realised that of course the car should be an American highway patrol car! Seems obvious once I thought about it, so have settled on the below design - which I think keeps the moody and dangerous look of the Viper, but still makes it police like 
I thought I'd post this up coz you guys might appreciate it.
I thought I'd post this up coz you guys might appreciate it.
Top Gear Live & MPH Show UK Dates:
Earls Court London: 5th - 8th November 2009
NEC Birmingham: 12th - 15th November 2009
http://www.mphshow.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=71/t=m/goSe...
Earls Court London: 5th - 8th November 2009
NEC Birmingham: 12th - 15th November 2009
http://www.mphshow.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=71/t=m/goSe...
Chemical Matty said:
Other Car???
Hopefully he won't mind me posting this up, (If he does I'll remove it) but when Rowly came to see the car he turned up in what I thought was an Orange Porsche 911 GT3... It turned out it was a Dark Blue Vauxhall Astra which had been vinyl wrapped... (Only kidding, it was a Dark Blue 911 Turbo)...Very impressive job, I would never had noticed if he had not mentioned it, obviously until the doors were opened, and apart from a couple of overlaps on a couple of the more curvy bits where a couple of pieces of vinyl had had to be used even up close you would not realise it was a vinyl wrap.
It has given me a couple of ideas, I have to say...
I'm glad you guys like the desgn, it has 'To Punish and Enslave' down the side where 'To Serve and Protect' normally sits.
The car will be totally vinyl wrapped, like my Turbo, and you'll be hard pressed to spot the difference once completed.
The vinyl lasts for up to 5 years, reduces stone chips, is hard for vandals to key, doesnt need waxing and comes off easily. I'm not kidding when I say I've had the Turbo covered in mud, driven it through rain for a bit and it was (barring the wheels of course) spotless aftewards. All dirt just runs of the vinyl - I love it
Regardless of what car I buy next, its going to be Kawasaki Green (whether it likes it or not...)
The car will be totally vinyl wrapped, like my Turbo, and you'll be hard pressed to spot the difference once completed.
The vinyl lasts for up to 5 years, reduces stone chips, is hard for vandals to key, doesnt need waxing and comes off easily. I'm not kidding when I say I've had the Turbo covered in mud, driven it through rain for a bit and it was (barring the wheels of course) spotless aftewards. All dirt just runs of the vinyl - I love it
Regardless of what car I buy next, its going to be Kawasaki Green (whether it likes it or not...)
topgeartowers said:
I'm glad you guys like the desgn, it has 'To Punish and Enslave' down the side where 'To Serve and Protect' normally sits.
The car will be totally vinyl wrapped, like my Turbo, and you'll be hard pressed to spot the difference once completed.
The vinyl lasts for up to 5 years, reduces stone chips, is hard for vandals to key, doesnt need waxing and comes off easily. I'm not kidding when I say I've had the Turbo covered in mud, driven it through rain for a bit and it was (barring the wheels of course) spotless aftewards. All dirt just runs of the vinyl - I love it
Regardless of what car I buy next, its going to be Kawasaki Green (whether it likes it or not...)
Sounds good.The car will be totally vinyl wrapped, like my Turbo, and you'll be hard pressed to spot the difference once completed.
The vinyl lasts for up to 5 years, reduces stone chips, is hard for vandals to key, doesnt need waxing and comes off easily. I'm not kidding when I say I've had the Turbo covered in mud, driven it through rain for a bit and it was (barring the wheels of course) spotless aftewards. All dirt just runs of the vinyl - I love it
Regardless of what car I buy next, its going to be Kawasaki Green (whether it likes it or not...)
GTSDave said:
Actually, I was thinking along these kind of lines...
There's a guy in Canada who has done one of those Looks bloody great Coor think of it
A few of us with Le mans replica cars
We had Venom 500 Chamberlain Motorsport,
Sir Steve with 91
There's my 92
Go on, get that car numbered up 53?
Edited by fatboy18 on Tuesday 8th September 17:24
topgeartowers said:
So after 14 versions, I realised that of course the car should be an American highway patrol car! Seems obvious once I thought about it, so have settled on the below design - which I think keeps the moody and dangerous look of the Viper, but still makes it police like
I thought I'd post this up coz you guys might appreciate it.
I'm liking this one very much i have wanted to do similar for a few years and spoke with stickers many the time over it.I thought I'd post this up coz you guys might appreciate it.
I was going to go for a variation of this with extras
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