My Newest Mod

[Ray Lobato]

Well Paul, I would tend to agree with you on the faker decals, but it isn't like Gerald has a stock Explorer and has the decal. He has modified it well over stock, and if they (the aftermarket manufactures) would make more stuff for us, I'm sure he would have it even more modified.

 

[GJarrett]

I appreciate all the replies, including Paul's and Ryan's. That's exactly why I asked the question; I wanted to know what people really thought.

If I had a hard opinion I would never have started this thread. If I was sure I liked it, I would have just put it on because I liked it and I don't care what you think or not. If I was sure I didn't like it then I wouldn't have put it on in the first place. One half of me really thought the idea was cool, but after I put it on and actually saw it, another half of me thought it was kinda ricey. That's why I posted this thread.

I do know I'll at least leave it on for another couple weeks because I am taking it to the Ford dealership body shop to fix some of my paint & body damage from the time I laid it over. It will be interesting to see any reactions from the Ford body guys if they notice it.

 

[Gofast]

Got Rice? Add me in too.....

Well, I never thought of myself as a ricer, but I liked it.

I think I'm going off the deep end with my truck.

I'm going to have a theme song too.

Maybe some old Vanilla Ice...

Rice,Rice Baby
Cruzing Moab in my 5.0

or maybe Beach Boys...

Jack it up, Jack it up
buddy gonna shut you down....

or maybe Garth B....

I got friends in low places...

Oh well, time to walk home.

 

[tiessen]

I have a que...is your rig a pavement princess? That bumper and the surrounding paint I saw is soooooo shiny!? I wish my truck still looked like that (or maybe I'm glad it doesn't). Either way, the stickers gotta go!

 

[GJarrett]

Originally posted by tiessen
..is your rig a pavement princess? That bumper and the surrounding paint I saw is soooooo shiny!?

Hello?
Is that a serious question??? Maybe so...

Actually, it's not shiny at all. I haven't applied any Zaino since the first of the year, and I have to wait until I get my right side repainted from the time I layed it over before I re-Zaino. THEN it will be a mirror finish again, as it was early this year. Ordinarily you can read the fine print on the reflection on my rear tailgate, about 1000% better than what is in that picture. That is a reflection of my neighbor's house and you cannot tell anything about it. Sal Zaino would flog me. A coat or two of Zaino and you can count the slats and fine print on that chimney reflection forty yards behind "Herc". I have to wait a month or two after my paint job gets done and this puppy is going to glow in the dark again.

I try to keep it looking every bit as nice as a new Eddie Bauer deserves to look. So yes it IS a pavement princess. Thank you for the compliment.

Well,.... it is a Pavement Princess 90% of the time. I lied.


I get lost a lot.


I couldn't find Alberston's Food Store one time and ended up here. I was just trying to make a beer run

Don't forget the time I went to the Eddie Bauer Outlet Mall and couldn't get the gal to push the shopping cart over the three hundred foot drop to load my grocery-getter:

And here I am coming down from the press box at my son's soccer match. That's Ray Lobato in the background. He's a very fair and impartial scorekeeper and I would recommend him to any neighborhood league. I believe he is also planning to bring his own pavement-pounder to Moab next year and we are going to compare RTI scores on the speed bumps in town

Don't forget the time my girlfriend asked me to take her poodle to the dog salon and I ended up at a 13,000 ft elevation miner's camp.

They were very hungry and her poodle looked just fine to them. :smoke: My gal got pretty upset and needed to lay back and relax but my seatback lever didn't work so I helped her recline:

I'm looking for another girlfriend right now.

So I tried to find a nice church-going gal but those d@m# Methodists can't seem to give decent directions. Where is that church? Dead Link Removed

Drats! Now the fat lady with the ugly kid in the shopping cart bumped me at the bingo parlor!

I'll hafta fix that one. It was a big shopping cart.

Maybe we will meet in the Neiman Marcus parking lot someday. Cheers!

[Edited by GJarrett on 10-20-2000 at 09:01 PM]

 

[Brian1]

You forgot one!

Gerald, you forgot this one. Remember the time when you hit that speed bump in Wal-Mart a little too hard?

It took me forever to find the thread where you posted this. When I found it, the pic would not load. I had it on my hard drive so I uploaded it to one of my web addresses.

 

[GJarrett]

Brian, I try to forget that one. It was my first whoops that really hurt my pocketbook.

BTW, I was trying to take the easy way out of the parking lot. This was the way in

Can those BFG tires grip, or what?

The civil engineers blame my Whoops on Sam Walton; and his heirs blame the concrete mixer . We're still working that one out in circuit court.

Tread Lightly, especially in Arkansas . D@m# inbred hillbillies are all related to the local attorneys... :fire:

[Edited by GJarrett on 11-01-2000 at 09:19 AM]

 

[tiessen]

So the answer is yes and no. I see the Moab Edition has gotten some use. Lucky for you, and other paint appreciating folk, your trees are not as close together as up here in BC. We call it natural pinstriping. I can't remember when my paint reflected anything!

Cheers

Dale

ps. I look forward to exploring some of that terrain in your pics. I think I'll try to do Moab with the rest of you this May!

 

[Paul Gagnon]

Originally posted by tiessen
ps. I look forward to exploring some of that terrain in your pics. I think I'll try to do Moab with the rest of you this May!

That's the spirit Dale!! You and me against the ricers... LMAO Westcoast pinstripes are a badge of honour Haven't talked to you in a while Dale, am I still ahead of you or did you catch up yet?

 

[Char]

Well Gerald, I agree with 2 of the previous comments. The first is that the sticker should definitely say "Herculiner Edition". and secondly, the Eddie Bauer needs to go if you're going to leave it on. I would have taken it off a long time ago because even though I may do designer, I don't like to advertise it. Anyway, it's your truck not mine so do what you want. I do like it.

 

[Paul B.]

Gerald, go for it, I like it. If Ford saw it, it might start a whole new edition for the Explorer line up. Hummmm, maybe I should put a Rubicon Edition on my truck, Lord knows that it easily qualifies for it, but where could I put it?

Paul B.
Modified '91 4x4/4-door/XLT

 

[bluescat]

Another approach

Maybe there's another way to display the decal (and other things as well) without transferring it onto the skin of your vehicle. If you buy a presized piece of acrylic (read plexiglass) from Home Depot you can mount all of your mod stickers on it and stick it on the interior side of the glass in one of the quarter panel or passenger windows. It just slides into place. I used the passenger vent window on my Sport and cut a notch in the sheet so it clips to the vent hardware. This way you can display this stuff when you want to and remove it and put it on a shelf in the garage when you're going some place where you don't want the publicity. Whether the stickers mount to the outside or inside of a surface it still works. However, you certainly have gone those places that allow you to put that transfer any damned place you want to.

 

[Dre]

and also copy it and give one to me - - - - when I'm in MOAB next year!!!!

Like it.

Here's the thing, you know people that know nothing about wheeling are gonna be the ones asking questions. I get it at the pump, on the street, in the parking lot and all I have are two BADLANDS stickers on my rig. For those from Illinois that do some off-roading Badlands means a great place to wheel and a bit of respect for the owner of the truck that survived it. We Illinois residents don't have too many opportunities to go wheeling with the "big dogs" from the west, give us some credit too.

That means I want the sticker.

OK I'll shut up now.