aRty’s aspiration is to mimic the classic american muscle cars that are his progenitors. There simply is no way to do that without, well, some cosmetic surgery on his derriere. See, back in the 1960s and 1970s cars actually had enough power to create sufficient drag at speed to lift the drive wheels (the rear ones, as it should be) off the ground. For such cars a rear spoiler, unlike those sported by many modern cars exclusively for cosmetic reasons, actually served a useful purpose.
aRTy, in order to pay tribute to his ancestors, has decided to undergo a bit of surgery on his rear end and sport a spoiler similar to the spoiler sported byt that sporty predessor.. the Dodge Aspen R/T.
aRTy’s faster kid brother, the Shadow ES designed by car god Carrol Shelby, had its very own spoiler. However it was a styleless piece of the late 80’s and NOT the look aRTy was looking for. So Burn set out to fashion him his very own spoiler that would make his great-grandAspen proud. Function be damned and form be acceptable by the 55mph standard. That is, if you see it at 55mph it looks good.
How does one go about starting this spoiler? Some would very carefully craft such out of cloth and resin, molding, forming sanding and perfecting. NOT. Burn, being the master carpenter that he is (and not REALLY wanting to put that much time in the whole thing) decided he would use his preferred material…..wood. So, he very carefully spent months preparing just the right piece of wood. Over the cold and wet winter months this piece was soaked, dryed, pressured, placed on black asphalt for the heat focusing properties it provided and, when it had reached just the right curvature, the final forming began. (So yes, in other words, Burn grabbed the first piece of warped 4×4 that had roughly the same curvature as aRTy’s rear.)
To this perfectly prepared piece of punky pre-pulp was applied the fine crafting tools of a table saw and a right-angle grinder. The dust flew in clouds reminiscent of those spewed out of Mount Saint Helens. The garage was not visible through the fog of airborne particles but finally, after many painstacking back-breaking hours of work, aRTy has his tail.
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