Steve Griswold walks through the custom work on the Vacation films' car: stripping the original brown paint for metallic pea, replacing the wood paneling, extending the roof rack, and adding the Christmas tree prop and custom emblem that were hand-sculpted before 3D printing existed.
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I took the hubcaps off because in the Vacation movie they get stolen, so I figured it was a kind of an easy way after doing all this work to just— and I never got back to having time to do the hubcaps or to have someone do the hubcaps. So then again here on the sides, all wood paneling down the whole side of the car. This car originally was brown, the whole car was brown, We did the metallic pea paint on it and then put— took all the paneling off that was on the car and then put new paneling on all down the whole side. So the roof rack has been extended, so it's two different roof racks kind of put together to make it go the whole length of the car. You can put the luggage up there, you can put the Christmas tree up there, which is from one of the other Vacation movies, which is actually a different car, but People love it when we put a Christmas tree on top. Then we have the emblem on the side. So I had this drawn up and then I found, uh, artist to sculpt it and make it kind of out of a plastic material. This was before 3D printing was a thing. Uh, and then we made them for the sides. The backside, we've got the kind of air vents on the side. This wood paneling has been is bigger. The window was smashed out because it came way down to like here, and then it, uh, we replaced it with a smaller window up top. The only thing on the back is the wood paneling was added, and then we added the extra set of tail lights on the back. Again, the roof rack goes all the way across the top. So on the driver's side, here's where the real gas actually is for the car.
