Who's a grumpy old sod, then?

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Although I can't offer any suggestions as to where to get it done, I must say it sounds like a great idea! Even though graffiti isn't my cup of tea it's great to see someone wanting to do something different.

I can't believe all the naysayers who are telling you not to do it, resale etc. One of the reasons the mini has been so popular for so long is because people have these ideas and do something different. Think the Radford cars, John Lennon, Peter Sellers, Paul Smith etc. etc. These are the cars that helped turn the mini into a cult car because they didn't stick to a straight shiny paint job. they did something different.

In my opinion, who cares about resale! Worry about that when you actually want to sell it. In the meantime its your car, do what you wanna do!

Just my two cents anyways

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1963 Austin Countryman Woody
1964 Morris 850 Van
1967 Austin Countryman
1975 Range Rover 2 Door
2004 Subaru Forester XT
2015 Potts Teardrop Camper
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I used to live in the Blue Mountains. Years ago whenever someone wrote a letter to the local paper complaining about about graffiti there was always a barrage of letters about giving the kids some freedom to express their art and all that type of crap.
Now when you visit the Blue Mountains it looks like a ghetto with scribble on every available surface. Every road sign, bus shelter, fence, wall, etc. is just covered in useless scrawl.
All thanks to the namby pamby green/red let all the kids have their own way bastards.

You know I've been giving this some thought today..

And while I agree that it could send the wrong message to a small percentage of people... done right it could be very very interesting to look at.

If you try and keep it to only a few colours, and if the tags are a few layers deep, as in overlapping, you could change the way the whole car looks

Have you ever seen one of those prototype cars in camo? They used to do the same thing to navy ships. Some of the block lettering styles could offer a similar effect, while delivering a second statement. You could tie a story or message thru the whole car... I've seen a few hot rods like that. They have a theme thru them



I reckon, if you just put a tag on your car, it would look cheap... but if you could use it as some sort of medium for expressing some sort of theme or story it could be a lot more interesting...

Heh exactly right. Just to be clear, i don't want some stupid kid doing a crappy mono-tone 5-sec nuisance tag. I'm talking awesome color and depth like in the youtube video in the OP. There are some really fantastic artists out there with some really artistic work. There's an artist in london called banksy (stencillist to be precise) whose work often has deep undertones. People take down the walls he does and they have sold for $100k+

I like ryan's idea about a union jack theme. I also thought of the Paul Smith style below, but a bit more psychadelic-ized. Theres also some graffiti at bondi beach which is giving me ideas.



Not everyone wants to have a $30k cooper S parked in their garage and pulled out for concourses. Having a mini is also about having fun and making a statement, personalizing it and making it unique.

The mini helped define the sixties and seventies, a time of free love, psychadelic drugs and the peace movement. (yeah I'm a closet hippie =/) It's like the kombi van or beetle, but more straight laced. And besides all of that, it is a very innovative piece of engineering and practical while being so out of place in the modern world. There is so much to be expressed!

My mini is cheap and cheerful. I like cush's rat mini, but my mini isn't faded or rusty in that way. Then I had this great idea! Lets just say that the paint job isn't going to devalue it much further :p

Gtg, but will post up some artwork later

hg.

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Nah I mean it. Well put. A lot of people would find the mini I'm working on a the moment offensive... but its mine, its an expression of self and they can go forthe and procreate.

ok! sounds like fun!

mate, i'm not going to reinvent the wheel here. if you want to do this you're probably going to have to find an artist who can do it with an airbrush, i'm not sure how spray cans would go. and i reckon it would be sweet going over only one or two panels, but not the whole car.

something to be wary of could be encouragement. you don't want to come back to your car to find some bullshit tagger has come and added to it. but if you don't leave your car out at night you should be right.

and how good is Banksy's stuff! an old housemate had a book of his, my favourites were the "holes" in the barrier on the West Bank, "fat lane" pained on a footpath in america (in the book, the side-note gave overweight/obesity statistics for the US) and the diver holding the plug in an old fountain. brilliant. and the ones where he did a painting and hung it in an art gallery to see how many people looked OH and the naked guy hanging out of an apartment window.

(not sure if this one is on the west bank but it looks like the ones he did there)










You can't say that's not art. the only difference between these and something framed on a wall in a gallery is that everyone can enjoy it, and they don't have to pay money to do so

this is NOT art:

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hahahaha "art terrorism" the man is an artist! so what if his medium is concrete? but we're getting off topic...

you wouldn't lock up pro hart for spilling all that crap all over those carpets would you? (incidentally, they were awesome too)

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im with cush and some of teh other guys, grafiti is an art, but tagging, is for wankers, who wants tht scribble all over the place!

i would do it for sure, or even just one panel, ill find some pics of a mates drift car in a little bit that just had the bonnet done, looks mad!

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OMG..!! I was talking to my brother about doing this to my Moke..!!!!

He was totally against the idea, but i thought it would look cool..!!!

Good luck with it. I know if your in sydney, there are heaps of people that would be interested in doing somethign like this.

Crikey, I was thinking of doing that just yesterday! The idea was to make the ship's orientation less obvious so that submarine's couldn't work out where to point their torpedos. It was shortlived as sonar etc meant there was no point, but the idea is superb for a car's livery.

Whatever you do, get an initial draft of what they intend to do, make sure they use the correct paint and clear coat it, i.e. do it properly otherwise it will look like a random act of vandalism.

great idea. i was thinking of doing the same thing to my bonnet....

how about leave the front standard (normal paint) then make a line from the bottom front corner of your door up towards the back of the roof and thats the area you graffiti.

also you go go wide racing stripes, with a black border and graffiti inside them.

you could always do a big morris tag or something like that over a waving union jack. or just go all out there is some really cool stuff out there.

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Good luck with getting it registered and insured after its been "attacked".

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