So, yesterday I got a package in the mail from my mom. It turns out that she mailed me a bunch of pictures that she found aroud the house...and she mailed Layla's gloves, which were left in New Mexico over the holiday.
Now, the cool part here is that in the set of pictures were some great shots that I had taken of my Talon right after I finished painting it. The photo at the top of this article is from when I took all the wheels off (yes, all at the same time). In fact, I think I have a picture of that, too.
There's a good reason for this—I was stripping the paint (yes, those wheels are painted from the factory) off the wheels, and the process is involved enough that it's worth pipelining all four wheels at once instead of pulling them off individually. Specifically, I seem to remember that the paint stripper was extraordinarily nasty stuff, and I didn't really feel like pulling gloves on and off four different times.
In any event, I seem to remember the entire process taking around four or five hours, and the results were outstanding. The rims looked better than anything I've seen on any other Talon.
Oh yeah. That's hot.
I think you should hunt down the current owner and buy the car back. The intake mod you had was priceless.
"Sewer pipe" modifications are awesome. Did you hear it when I vented the BOV?
And that really is a nice color. Good job, man. Few Talon's I've seen have looked so nice.
Why, thanks! The Talon can be an amazing-looking car, but it really needs to have a flawless blackout on top and some megagloss on the body. When I first put the red on the car, I thought it was too orange—in retrospect, I think it's a fantastic red.