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Well, this was an unexpected surprise, considering I wasn’t even thinking of entering the show until the day before. I got a hold of the judging criteria and prepared accordingly. I was able to achieve a pretty consistent level of cleanliness throughout the car, including engine bay, wheel wells, wheel barrels, door jambs and other [...]

The idea of a smoked set of taillights for the GLI was one long in the making. Ever since I bought the original set of LED European taillights, I always thought the red in them clashed too much with my black car. While the brilliant red of the taillight housing goes very well with other colored cars (particularly light ones), something about the contrast between black and red somewhat diminished the appeal they had, at least in my eyes. Hence the idea to make them dark one way or another [...]