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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/06/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Gee, thanks Murilee. Now I'ma hafta get one for my Eagle.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    12/06/09

    In reply to 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
    That car ought to be taken away from its owner for neglect and given to a foster family that will care for it.

    If she were mine, oh and she will be mine some day, I'd paint her flat black all over but leave the stripe and Firebird emblem gloss. Put a 400 under the hood, some tint on the windows and buy her a nice new set of shoes, and she'd be perfect.
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    Image of 55Hardtop 55Hardtop
    12/06/09

    @weatherman: That's a Trans Am, so it has at least a 400 in it now.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    12/06/09

    @55Hardtop: good point. So all she really needs is some paint!
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    Image of 55Hardtop 55Hardtop
    12/08/09

    @weatherman: I wouldn't even paint it. Relish the beauty of patina, it gives the car character. Leave the trim rings off the factory steel rally wheels too!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/06/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Somewhere, the nearly forgotten dreams of a little, grey Skyhawk are about to come true.

    Putting the FireChicken on LeMons cars is incredibly appropriate. As we all know, the origin of the design rests in the mythology of the Phoenix (no, not the city), where the god-bird periodically emerges from the ashes of its own conflagration, perpetually renewing itself and its powers.

    In practice the performance of the T/A was inversely proportional to the size and gaudiness of the decal. I'm not sure that a car has ever been produced with a poorer go/show ratio.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Well, you know, the hood on my Hyundai Accent is a dreary expanse of grey space, it could use some fire.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Here's the Starsky & The Bandit Capri with its Screaming Chicken hood.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    I propose a contest whereby the best non-Firebird application of this decal wins a prize of some kind. Not a Photoshop contest - a real application of the bird in question.

    Sponsored, of course, by the company on the e-bay link.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    12/05/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: I'm seriously considering getting a couple of them for my sisters' Christmas gifts. One drives a '94 Mazda 323 and the other a '93 Volvo 940 Turbo wagon. I think I'll surprise them by applying the decals myself.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Both of these are perfect applications.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    12/06/09

    @MushyHeirloom: If Ms. Martin actually does this, and posts pics thereof, I will personally send him a bottle of Lagavulin - since the brand "Brefass Scotch" is not generally commercially available.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Put a bow on top, and it's like you're giving them a brand new car for christmas!
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    Image of SerialThriller SerialThriller
    12/06/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: It'll be just like those Lexus commercials. In fact, you should video the event so we can see the expression of surprise and gratitude on their faces.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    I think I'll stick with my original plan of spraying my parts-car's hood with chalkboard paint. Cartoon screaming chicken today, cartoon screaming chicken with a giant penis tomorrow.

    (I forgot to add "and bolting that hood to my car" somehow, in case it wasn't obvious enough.)
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    Edited by MushyHeirloom at 12/05/09 8:22 PM MushyHeirloom was starred MushyHeirloom was unstarred
    Image of skitter skitter
    12/05/09

    @MushyHeirloom: When the Baja car accidentally wound up with whiteboard body panels, I spent a good amount of time coloring.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Wouldn't look right on my car or truck.

    Howzabout a wild turkey for the hood of the tractor?
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Back in '94, a friend of mine was Trans Am-ifying a '79 Firebird. That was when I found out just how pricey that decal was. If I recall, the decal was around $250 form J.C. Whitney. Due to a funds shortage, his "Trans Am", never got the hood chicken. Nor did it get the shaker hood, ground effects, or an engine swap.

    So even though it never went beyond being a 301 powered Firebird with a junkyard-sourced 3 piece spoiler, It was still a pretty cool ride in high school.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    I'm not overly fond of the Trans Am eagle. I'd rather have the real thing.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    That would look great on the hood of the Jaguar!
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    12/05/09

    @Ben Wojdyla:

    I thought, the second I saw the teaser on the front page, "this, combined with occasionally having to push because of an only semi-functional reverse, on my W124 sedan would cause the Mercedes die-hard society to implode, spontaneously".

    I'm all for that.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/05/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Is there a way to "British-up" the screaming chicken? If so, I think my XJ-S might have to add one to its Christmas list.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    12/05/09

    @smalleyxb122: Perhaps there exists a tobacco pipe and tea cup decal set.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    12/05/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Does it come in a Union Jack colo(u)r scheme?
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/05/09

    @Armand: The trouble with that is that the Union Jack is more or less the same colors as the US flag. And limited to 2 colors, you'd have to go with red/white, blue/white, or red/blue. Red and white could work since the English flag is just only red and white, but I think that it would be lost on most people.

    I think the only course of action would be to paint the entire hood as a Union Jack, and then use the screaming chicken as a mask while painting the hood a solid color. Peel back the decal, and presto!
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Royal blue and silver would go nicely on the hood of my metallic blue '94 LeSabre, wouldn't it? Now to find air dams and spoilers...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/05/09

    @tonyola: You can just glue some to the hood--cut up an old black plastic bucket or too--easy peasy.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/05/09

    @tonyola: A few years back, my parents had a white '92 LeSabre that they were trying to sell me. To try to sell me on the idea of driving a LeSabre, my father said "One word. 'Flames'."

    He almost had me. I started thinking about how ironically cool silver flames would look on a white LeSabre.

    I fully support the idea of a screaming chicken on your LeSabre.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/05/09

    @smalleyxb122: The way my friend's girlfriend's stepfather drives his '94 LeSabre changed my mind about FWD Buicks forever.

    Topping out the speedometer on a two-lane highway is an experience.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    12/05/09

    @MushyHeirloom: Owning a low-mileage '94 LeSabre for the past 18 months or so has done the same for me. It has the qualities LeSabres are supposed to have (roomy, smooth, cushy, conservative) but throws in some surprising capability and fuel economy into the mix. A better car than I expected.
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    Oh good lord. It's almost a shame that the xB's hood isn't that big. I'd have to put it on the roof, or the hatch.
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    Image of chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
    12/05/09

    In reply to Screaming Chicken-ize Your Ride For Cheap!
    i hereby vow to put this on every vehicle that i drive across america, in any direction.. or the equivalent mileage thereof. trans-am new beetle here i come! (well... i'm technically there.. but we'll go from this point foreward...)
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/05/09

    In reply to 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
    "Whose car is that, out front?"

    "Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird, the car I've always wanted, and now I have it. I rule!"
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    Image of duster_uk duster_uk
    12/05/09

    @Elhigh: "What happened to the Camry?"

    "I traded it".
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/05/09

    @duster_uk: Poor Lester. His life ended at almost the same moment it was ready to begin.
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