One of many Slate Truck’s most important promoting factors, in addition to its low worth, is its monumental customization potential, with choices, options, and significantly wraps restricted solely by the proprietor’s creativeness. It is type of like giving house owners the basic Crayola 64-pack of crayons and telling them to go to city. Which may be why Slate and Crayola have teamed as much as convey a number of of its colours and a little bit of inventive whimsy to the in any other case drab, grey truck.
In accordance with Slate’s web site, 5 particular wraps can be found in the identical colours as Crayola’s Dandelion, Razzmatazz, Cerulean, Jersey Tomato, and Fern crayons. That is a far cry from the broad palette of the 64-pack (and the cult basic Burnt Sienna is nowhere to be discovered), however these are a few of Crayola’s hottest colours. I personally admire that they are all shiny, loud colours, one thing to interrupt up the 50 shades of grey that dominate the street lately. Along with the wrap, you additionally get some Crayola decals paying homage to the crayons for the mirrors and rocker panels, a Crayola dashboard badge, and a particular key fob matching the colour you select. On the floor, it seems like a good way to specific your creative aspect or communicate together with your inside baby.
All that glitters is just not Crayola Gold Medal
Digging just a little deeper provides a little bit of Burnt Sienna to the image. Including a Crayola wrap to your Slate can even add $1,549.99 to the acquisition worth. Compared, a full wrap in one of many normal colours prices $499.99. Whereas an off-the-shelf coloration will not be an ideal match for Dandelion, it would save $1,050, which might go a good distance towards different customizations.
One other difficulty is that even a high-quality, professionally put in satin wrap equivalent to it will solely final for 4 to 6 years. Meaning you will be paying $250 or extra per 12 months for the dignity of getting a Crayola coloration and branding in your Slate, solely to have to exchange or no less than take away it when it wears out. Tony Angelo lately DIY painted his V12-swapped Mustang for $247. That ought to final not solely longer than a wrap, however presumably longer than the remainder of the automotive. So for those who’re on a price range, it is good to know that you could get fairly inventive even with low cost paint jobs, equivalent to Junkyard Digs’ flag Fox Physique painted with an identical technique.
The Slate/Crayola collab is extra in regards to the branding than the colours themselves. Some partnerships, like Ford and Eddie Bauer, are iconic, whereas others fell a bit brief. I admire what Slate and Crayola try to do right here, however tripling the worth of a wrap for a novel coloration that can solely final a number of years simply does not appear value it to me.
