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Originally Posted by AF
Looking good Clyde, just curious are you getting paid for all those advertisements on your car ? How does that whole thing work ?
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Some are required, some are for contingency programs, some are from companies owned by friends, and some are for fun.
SCCA and Tire Rack are required. SCCA is the sanctioning body and Tire Rack is the title sponsor of the Solo events. There's no direct payout for anything, but you can't run National events without them.
Contingency programs pay out money, product credit, product, or some kinda of combination if you meet program requirements and place high enough. One of the program requirements is always having their stickers/decals on the car.
The ones for friends companies are not in exchange for anything, but I want to support when and where I can.
The ones for fun are, uh, for fun. One of hte decal pairs shows how some of that works...
Last year, someone in our community paid someone else in our community that owned a window tinting and car graphics company to make a bunch of decals as an inside joke making fun of someone else in our community that plays off the name of a company owned by a good friend of his (the one the joke is being made of) that is also part of our community. Anyone outside the community wouldn't have any idea what it's about.
I paid for the Team WTF?! decals (same friend mentioned above).
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Originally Posted by rumatt
We should charge team WTF dues and use them to pay for events where you display the logos. 
Your car does look awesome decked out like that.  |
Thanks. At least three more decal pairs will go on in Lincoln.
The Team WTF?! decals are pure Team WTF?!
I sent the wrong files to be printed and my shitty application skills left them riddled with bubbles. This will be fixed for next year.
There's an element of fun putting all the crap on the car. It's just good humor and silly. Getting everything on for our National Championships is similar to getting dressed up for a big personal or professional event and putting on your best watch and cufflinks.
When the car is also your daily driver, it also comes with a bit of feeling like a douchebag on the morning commute or when you and your wife are going out to a show in the evening. But that's also countered, somewhat, when you're in the driveway or out in the neighborhood and even running into neighbors in the Safeway parking lot. The men all kind of look at the car with an expression of "I wish my wife would let me do that."