Custom Car Skins Competition

You can choose which cars you want to see on the road. Seriously. This is what is now possible because of the Local Motors community and contributors. Designed, developed and built openly with input from car enthusiasts who want to drive something fresh and make exciting cars happen.

Now you choose even more than the design, performance features and local designation. Now you can choose your very own, one of a kind vinyl car skin.

Excerpt taken directly from the Custom Car Skins® competition page:

Custom Car Skins® Competitions will become an avenue for Local Motors customers to host competitions on the design of their LM vehicle exterior. If you didn't know, Local Motors vehicles are vinyl wrapped instead of painted because this process is more sustainable, cost effective, and customizable. Such a process also lends itself really nicely to Custom Car Skins®. Good for the environment and Good for the visual soul!

All people with graphic art ability are invited to participate in these competitions. Designers of every cloth, especially graphic artists and organizations such as the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) are highly encouraged to strut their stuff. The prizes will vary from $200 to over $1,500 depending on the complexity of the requested Car Skin. Since we have made this first competition pretty straightforward and provided a great number of files to get you going, the prize will be $200 in addition to the cred and the actual employment of the winning design on a car with the winning designer's signature. Just an inspired sketch is all we are looking for, and we will do the work to make it a reality.

The first Custom Car Skins® competition is a challenge to design the skin for Local Motors' CEO Jay Rogers' 1971 Mercedes 280SL. Why are we doing a custom car skin for a non-Local Motors vehicle? We are testing out the process of the design competition as well as the vinyl wrapping so it will be fine-tuned when we present it to customers on their Rally Fighter. Also, the 280SL is a bangin' classic with great curves and it will serve as a nice showpiece for Local Motors and Custom Car Skins®.




One important note before we get going: Though the submission and voting process will look like all other competitions, unlike other Local Motors competitions, one person will choose the winner of the Custom Car Skins Competitions: the host.

He or she would be wise to listen to the votes of the crowd or else risk getting laughed out of the parking lot, but in the end this is the host's choice. They put up the money for the prize, they get to choose. Fair enough.

In this case, Jrogers is the host and we will be designing for him. In the future, individual customers will host their own Custom Car Skins® competitions.