Here are some preliminary designs for a deck I am currently calling “Rat Rod Pinstripes”.
The rust color would be a dark metallic copper ink, the teal color will be a metallic ink also for an rusted auto appearance. The red and black would be spot colors.
I would appreciate any comments on the design, etc. I think I have covered all of the bases of function such as indices placement and proper symmetry, but if I have made any mistakes that would effect play, please let me know.
Thank you,
Randy Coffey
A few suggestions.
For design consistency, have the "painted" areas on the fronts and backs be the same - either the sides or the center. To do otherwise on a borderless card would allow people to spot an inverted card. It's a minor consideration, but I think it would also pull together the overall look. Perhaps you could use three strips of body paint?
Give the pips some body and color - single-color pips can get to be a headache after a while if you're playing with them. You can make them appear as if simply spray-painted to the car.
I actually owned an old beater about 25 years ago which had the potential to be a great rat rod - a '70 Chevy Nova SS. Damn thing had enough room under the hood, you could climb in and close it to make repairs on the engine! It also had what I liked to refer to as "260 air conditioning" - roll down two windows and go 60 MPH! (I was living in South Florida at the time, so yeah, there was no joy on the cool-air front, especially in the thick of summer.)
Anyway, my point is that I got the car in beat up but still decent condition - the vinyl top was removed, exposing the white paint underneath, and the body had been painted flat gray. As least, until the night I went out with some friends from the radio station where I was deejaying and they spray painted red flames to it! I followed that up with black spray paint lettering on the sides, advertising the station. Eventually, I moved into a snooty rental complex with two roommates and had to cover the whole thing, so I painted the body completely black except for the still-untouched white top - and it actually looked more like a cop car from a few decades back!
In the end, I didn't take good enough care of it and I destroyed the differential gears by not adequately lubricating them. I ended up limping the car back home at about 5 MPH after the remains of the gears cooled and someone bought it strictly for the body - they really wanted to make it a hot rod. I bought it for $300, sold it for $100. Never found out if they completed the job - I moved away shortly after.
Ironically, that car was about two decades old but I could still find parts off the shelves of most auto parts shops. I later owned a one-decade old Ford Mustang (not the nice one - the economy model they were making in the late '80s) - parts for that beast had to come from the dealer (no other company made the after-market parts for it), all the parts departments in the entire company take lunch from 1pm to 2pm (don't ask) and the deal-killer was that when I needed a new catalytic converter, I was informed they're no longer making them so the car would never pass another emissions inspection. I used to call it a Ford Gelding because if you rode up a steep-enough hill, the car slowed down even with the gas pedal to the floor. No power whatsoever.
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