A new California trend?
 

The folks from the "Just A Car Guy" blog seemed to have identified a new styling/modification trend out in California.

It seems to be called "Stickering a Panel", this HHR was spotted at last weekend's Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach.

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Two questions arise.....

1. When did HHR's become classic Japanese cars?
2. Why would you do this to an innocent HHR?:wtf:

I live in California and this is the first I have seen of Stickering a Panel. Second, I hope it does NOT catch on. I did hear that the Japanese are buying HHR'S and exporting them to Japan. Why, I do not know.

I'm in Southern California and that's the first time I've seen it. I used to be a yearly participant at the Japaneese Classic Car Show up until 2009 when I sold my last 3 Datsuns. I had a 1978 280Z, a 1979 810 2dr. (somewhat rare) and a 1964 L320 Pickup:

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This poor Datsun 240/260 was at the same show, so maybe it's a Long Beach thing.

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You can probably peg the exact model and year from the taillights and bumper db/sb.

kids and their imaginations, stickers on a car, naw it doesn't work for me either. leave that sticker stuff to NHRA and NASCAR to name a few

Those are nice rides. You do nice work.:twothumbs::twothumbs:

Im in SO Cal ive seen a few of those, not on a HHR but on other cars yes. I guess its alll about personal taste. I cant say anything because I have a JDM style muffler at a angle on my HHR SS


https://www.chevyhhr.net/gallery/fil.../602028_665542

Thanks. I do miss them sometimes but you can't keep them forever. Besides, I made enough from the sale of those three to buy my GTO and put a pretty good chunk of money in the bank.:twothumbs:

This was a short lived trend not to long ago in the mini-truckin world (i have a bagged S-10 "project") I see this pop up every so often on the S-10 forum. Guys would usually sticker bomb their bumpers or roll pan. Not my thing, but everyone has a different idea of what "cool" is...

I have only seen sticker bombing on vdubs and civics and 240sx's. Usually done on damaged body panels that you dont care about getting fixed/repainted. As far as I know its a trend that started with the drift scene as a cheap way to make busted body panels look better.