It’s been awhile since I written a post on this site due to slow shipment of new stuff in my area. But things starting to get better with me acquiring some cars from the Porsche Series. Despite most of the cars were already gone by the time I found them, I’m not looking to complete the whole set, just castings that I fancy so it’s still a win in my book.
For this post, I want to concentrate on one specific car that I picked up from my small HAWL, the blue Porsche Boxster Spyder.
In all honesty, I almost turned away from buying this car, every inch of my body was ready to hate this thing. The casting itself gets an acceptable but not great rating from me. I still feel the original white one from 2012 was superior and then to top it all off, the white side skirts, gold wheels made this thing fugly.
If I’m a design manager at Mattel and see this abomination, I would track down the person who was responsible for this combination to my office and immediately conduct a drug test on the individual in suspicion that he or she took something during their lunch break.
The paint job was questionable due to the fact that this particular Boxster model was mainly painted in vibrant colors which we will get to in a little bit.
After hesitating for a good 5 minutes, and playing the flower pedal game later. I decided to buy it and started “fixing” it the moment I got home.
First off, remove the hideous white tampo on the side skirts, it made the car look cheap, like it’s wearing some ricer-style bodykit. I carefully removed the tampo with some nail polish remover and Q-tips.
The stripe with the word “Porsche” sitting at the bottom of the doors get to stay because the stripe was a standard cosmetic feature for Boxster Spyders.
Tip: Make sure to have some water near by to spray on the car everytime you pause the tampo removing process, acetone have an acidic characteristic so spray some water as a safety mechanism to dilute and stop it from eating through the paint.
Once the tampo issue was resolved, time to deal with the ugly gold wheels. I like the 10 spokes and don’t want nor know how to do wheels swaps, the next best thing for me to do is to “repaint” the rims and I’m using the the term “repaint” very lightly because it isn’t really paint, it’s silver metallic Sharpie. They work well, it takes quite an effort to rub it off so handling it once it dries is no problem and since my Porsche won’t be racing down the orange track anytime soon, the Sharpie is there to stay.
And here’s the result:
A “before and after” shot
Oh! And about that paint job? I wasn’t convinced that this car was offered in this dark blue color, but some research later...
The paint color according to Porsche is called “Sapphire Blue.” This color along with the tan interior combo and silver engine intake scoops exist.
So there you have it, a car that was an ugly duckling turned into a swan. Looks like sometimes less really is more.