I realise that Cars was released in 2006, and for some people maybe most people, what I say here is old news.  As it was new news to me I decided to pass it on to others who may also find it new news.

There seems to be quite a bit of talk at the moment about the rumours that there will be a Disney Pixar Cars sequel, Cars 2.  This has been met with rather mixed opinions.  Some comments I have read state that a sequel would be terrible news as the first one was boring.  The majority, like myself can’t wait.  There has also been a lot of speculation and hopes, mainly hopes, as to what will be in the new film, monster trucks, motorbikes etc.  Some people have even called for a prequel covering Mater’s former years, that would not be a hit in my opinion.  I started doing a bit of digging around on the trusty, or not so trusty depending how you look at it, internet and came across Eddie Paul.  Eddie has been customising cars for films for a number of years and he created some real life vehicles for the promotion of Cars.  If you want to read about it you can on Gizmag, Sally and Materand ComingSoon, Lightning McQueen.

I was thinking the other day that I remember seeing an image where someone had taken a photo of their car and using Photoshop had given it a Cars look.  This is actually what got me thinking about the movie, why I did all the searching which resulted in this post.  I managed to find a tutorial on this forumwhere someone explains how to use Photoshop to give your own car a Cars makeover.   I don not have Photoshop so I asked on another forum how to do this in Gimp.  Which he graciously did (see here).  I am still relatively new to Gimp so after a few tries this is what I came up with.

If you have a look around you will find that quite a lot of people have done the same thing.  The photo I used was taken from NetCarShow.com.

One last thing I wanted to mention was that if you wanted to make a real life Cars racer then Eddie Paul has a book that can help called Eddie Pauls Custom Bodywork Handbook.