Imagine the rumble of an exhaust leak and a slight carbon monoxide buzz.
http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x295/kach22i/MISC/
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...MISC/ZEB-1.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...MISC/SNOW3.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...MISC/SNOW4.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...MISC/SNOW1.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...MISC/SNOW2.jpg

Imagine billowing sounds and a bitting cold.
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ISC/BLDG-1.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ISC/BLDG-2.jpg

Imagine you are downtown Ann Arbor at night.
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...C/A2-NIGHT.jpg

See,
 

I've always wanted to do that to my 4WD as well but never gotten around to it

The Tracker is at the end of it's life span - fraking rust! I want to zebra up a 3-4k Jeep Cherokee or CJ Jeep next. However the ultimate would be if I can get into an Isuzu VehiCROSS and put stripes on it, but that's a lot more money for a winter beater.

On a late August morning, at a Watkin's Glen bed and breakfast, 300? yards away...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228675806.jpg

I didn't notice the deer grazing until I downloaded the image.

if its not a stupid question, how did you decide a pattern to the stripes

did you have a pattern to mask around?

I studied all the zebra striped cars I could find doing a Google image search. Many I did not like because they made the same mistake I did 25 years ago when making a tiger striped van, got cheap and had them spaced too far apart.

The second step was printing actual photos of zebra and giving them some study, looking for patterns and looking closely at their faces too.

I then drew a simple line drawing of my car and filled it in with a felt tipped pen. I looked at the hood too, not just the side of the car, transitions between the planes are very important.

Lots of masking tape, cardboard, newspapers and X-acto blades for trimming and fine tuning. Two days of laying tape, if I did not like something, I just pulled it off and re-did it prior to painting it with spray cans.

Tips:

1. Don't spay in 15 mph winds like I did.

2. You can go cheap on the paint, but use good 3M tape - I did not as it was a pain.

3. Don't spay any cars, houses, animals or stupid people in the way.

4. Wear a mask, gloves and eye protection if you can.

Hole-y Zebra!

Look Close

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228706179.jpg

Random Crock Pic
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228709047.jpg

Grabbed at Mission San Juan Capistrano last week.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228716378.jpg

For the life of me I cannot understand how people function in these weather conditions. I guess living on the west coast all my life has made me soft - at least with respect to the elements.

From my crappy cell phone - from yesterday's targa-top-off drive in the foothills:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228757673.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228757684.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228757695.jpg
Visibility was unlimited.

Your pictures remind me of drought ridden Africa.:D

We have fresh water, but my feet are cold - can't have everything.:cool:

From the HSR race http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228758975.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228759000.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228759032.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228766141.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228766165.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228766190.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228766227.jpg

A few days of this make it all worthwhile:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...1321/vail2.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...1321/vail3.jpg

Is this any better George? From today's hike at lunch..
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228863695.jpg

Flying to Mammoth Mountain, Ca. this morning, for a day of skiing.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228975669.jpg

Returning late this afternoon.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1228975725.jpg