Sponsors...

[EternalOne]

Well, I had told myself I wasn't going to accept sponsorships for this car, because of the hassle. But this one fell into my lap, and I cannot pass it up...

I'm now fully sponsored by a major airbrush manufacturer (going to sign papers right now, then I can post the name). My painter just got picked up by them as a lead demonstrator to show off their new $600 airbrushes, and once they heard about my car, they HAD to have me as next years marketing campaign. Free paint, free airbrushes, and full magazine shoots for next year. We already had a major transformation planned for this year, but I was planning on testing out the race-car vinyl bodywraps for half of my car -- they talked me out of this. Instead, I will be doing a full airbrushed paintjob. They literally want 80% of the car covered in detailed work, and these airbrushes a able to create HAIR, they can spray so fine.

Now, my biggest problem is I only have 2 months to come up with a full design that will cover that much of the car, with intricate details, while still sticking with my blue/silver/black theme. I'm thinking we'll be doing a lot of ghost images, and using quite a bit of the lambo paints, since I no longer have to pay for them. ;) So, somehow I'm having to think of a way to tie the Cougar into all of this... Ugh.

Off to the shop now, we're starting mockups today until the reps get there to sign.

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[MaverickFlyer]

Thats awesome! I wish someone would sponsor my Car!:cry:

[Excelcier]

Sponsorship is cool, but there's a downside... they own yer ass! You have to meet all their requests for demos, displays, quantity of shows, show wins, etc.

I went down that road with Aerogear for a full body but I backed out because of their requirements.

[Saleen Cougar]

this is a good week for you isnt it?

[EternalOne]

Actually Ron, if you remember that's exactly why I didn't do sponsorships before. I don't go to car shows, except rarely, and I refuse to be told what to do with my own time. ;)

All of the sponsors I have know this, and are fine with it. This company only wants one thing from me, a photoshoot at the end of the project. They want me in marketing materials, and said that they might want to fly me and ship the car to a major airbrush event in the summer, that's it. The paperwork dictates that I will only be responsible for getting them high quality shots of the car, one shoot in a studio type environment with marketing banners behind, and a few "in the wild" shots on the streets for various campaigns they are running. In turn I get free paint, and my painter gets free airbrushes (at $600 each that's one helluva deal).

My painter has already sponsored me, knowing full well that the majority of his advertising is me driving around in the streets. The more people that see my car, the more people that come into his shop for paint. Next paintjob, however, will have sponsor logos airbrushed into the design, which is the only downfall...

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[hamill]

Congrats John....

and I should add....making a cougar head on the front half of your car fading into the sky would retain the blue in the back...even making a a ghost cougar head using blue and white with silver and black accents would work...it would also give the painter an oppertunity to do "hair" :)

to incorperate the headlights, you could make them the eyes (or nostrils) but you could allways buy the VIS headlight covers (the full covers) and have them painted and only put them on for shows....or paint the insides :)