Stickers done & Photo shoot

So the big weekend of the photo shoot at Southampton Saab has gone, and what a great event!

It all started Friday night when I pick up Latimer at the station, Bringing a big smile to his face....(!) as he saw the Saab in the flesh for the first time, armed with the Czech wrecks team stickers and the Saab sponsorship ones. Phil joining us later, with even more stickers - in fact hundreds of them, and PINK seat covers!!!!!

It took about 3 hours to get the team and Saab stickers on, but care and a bit of luck saw the mutha ship transformed - with the laser cut team stickers on both from doors and bonnet, and all our surnames on the rear pillars (with a slight mishap on the W of my name soon fixed, sort of!), going on brilliantly and looking the business - also the Southampton Saab sticker on the drivers side, and Red Ten recruitments stickers on, the whole car suddenly had MEANING. No longer a weird chavy attempt to make her a boy racers dream, that was a bit embarrassing to drive, but a proper rally event car - If we say so ourselves it looks brilliant. We didn't get the Saab sticker on the other side, a few attempts were not going well with creases, and it was 11.30 pm and cold so we called it a day for some pizza and beer!

Saturday 19/8
Up early for the photo shoot a quick stop for shower caps at Superdrug, and down the the dealers .Ian John and Grahams initial shock turned to laughter, especially as they got to the drivers side and saw their stickers proudly on the rear door, and with the whole car looking so perfect for it's purpose. The Photographer Saab UK hired set to work after a bit of car shuffling and we donned bath robes and shower caps! It was a great laugh especially me in the drivers seat playing 'shaky hands man' (if you know the TV show Banzai) with Graham, and Lat and Phil both squeezed out the rear door window on that side (clearly they are BIG windows!!). Dave couldn't make it, sadly, and the rest of us got a little pressie each for our efforts from the dealer - proper china southampton Saab mugs, pretty smart actually.

The rest of the day saw more stickers, lots of them, including the arm and babies face bursting through the paintwork ones, the other Saab sponsor sticker on the passenger side, the pink fluffy seat covers on the front (really genuinely very comfortable - a real ooooh effect when you first sit on them...honestly!) ,and the Air horn connected and working, wired into a proper switch inside! It's so loud, and brilliant, and even (nearly) plays the tune perfectly!!!!! The car certainly attracted attention on the way to drop Lat at the station, especially as each overtake or pass by a pedestrian saw the horn in action!!!!!

Top day, great result

And Now this week, the car is coming in with me to work! So Far everyone thinks it looks great