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Originally posted by delio
No HID KID in your archive Sprinty... 
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Its 10:30 pm. Prime time Friday night and Delio, along with Peelboy, Lordrandall and Y2KevSE are walking down the boulevard. The trio has just finished dinner & dessert at TGI Fridays, and is walking off the serious caloric overload.
Y2KevSE: “You know, I love the food in that place, but I HATE that menu!”
Peelboy: “Whadaya mean? They’ve got everything on that menu.”
Y2KevSE: “I know, that’s what I mean – that stinking menu is like, forty pages long! Reading that thing is like reading War and Peace! How the hell can you make a decision in that place??”
Lordrandall: “I feel ya, bro. It is a little bit out of control.”
Y2KevSE: “A LITTLE BIT?!”
Delio: “What are you idiots talking about? If the menu only had two or three things on it, you’d be ****ing and moaning about that. Why don’t you….
They continue to walk and the stimulating, intellectual debate rages on. The boulevard is in full cruise effect tonight. There’s imports, muscle cars, exoticars, you name it. Eye candy for the true auto enthusiast.
The boys are waiting to cross at an intersection. They have a red light. Peelboy checks for on coming cars and starts to cross anyway.
Lordrandall: “What are you doing?”
Peelboy: “Crossing the street, what does it look like?”
Lordrandall: “My mom told me that I have to wait for the man and, and that’s what I’m doing. See (points to the cross walk indicator) we’ve got the hand right now, that means we don’t go. We have to wait for the walking man – you don’t go on the hand or when the hand is flashing.”
Y2KevSE: “Good grief.”
So they wait.
As they are waiting for the light to change a few cars pull up and stop along side of them. One of these cars is a dropped, flared and blared Honda Civic. You know the car. This thing is three inches off the ground, has a 5 inch tail pipe that makes more noise than a moose in heat, blue tint headlights, BadBoyz Racing decal, the whole nine yards. The three Maxima owner are looking it over in bewildered amusement.
Y2KevSE: “Hey, look at that! What is it, a Modena, no, wait…an NSX? No,…I’m wrong….that’s one of those Aston Martins – right?”
“Baaaaahaaha”
Peelboy: (knowing they’re fake) “Yup, is must be an Aston. You pretty much have to spend that much money to get a stock H.I.D. set up like that.”
Delio (in all seriousness): “Those are HID’s?”
Peelboy (assuming that he’s just joking): “Yup. Good ‘ole blue tinted headlight lenses – that’s an HID system for ya.”
Haaaaaa.
Peelboy, Lordrandall and Y2KevSE enjoy a laugh at the quip. Delio, however, just gets a quizzical look on his face.
Delio: “Hmmm.”
*** *** ***
The following morning, Delio is up and out of bed early. He hops in his Max and heads straight down to the Ace Hardware store. Delio is a man on a mission. He knows just what he wants. He strides directly to the paint department and starts perusing the spray paint selection. He spots it! Reaches out and grabs two cans of the paint and heads to the check out counter. Five minutes later, Delio is on his way back home with two cans of Kelly Moore Aqua Blue Mist in the back seat and a grin a mile wide on his face.
Delio (thinking to himself): “HID city – here I come! I can’t believe it, four bucks! This is going to be the cheapest mod I’ve ever done!”
Upon arriving home, he swings around and backs the Max into the garage. He parks it so that the front end of the car is sticking out of the garage a few feet. This way he’ll have more light to work with, the fumes from the paint won’t get trapped in the garage, and the sun will help dry the paint more quickly.
Delio: “WooHooo! I’m getting HID today!!”
Delio takes the sports section from yesterday’s newspaper out of the recycle bin and begins masking. He carefully masks off the bumper, lower hood, the grill and the corner markers on each side. After a half hour of meticulous work, he’s ready to get HID. Looking at the front of the car, only the headlamp lenses are exposed. There’s next to no wind, so over-spray shouldn’t be an issue. Here he goes.
Delio picks up a can of the Kelly Moore spray paint and methodically applies it in slow, sweeping, left-right strokes. First to the passenger side, then the driver’s. It takes about 15 minutes, and then he’s finished. A perfect job – no runs, no drips, no errors.
Delio can barely contain his excitement. He’s got HID headlights now! He can’t WAIT until tonight to go out and show them off. But the can says that this stuff will take up to three hours to dry, so he’s not going anywhere for a while. Delio tosses the spent cans in the trash, grabs a lawn chair & places it in the driveway, right in front of his car. Yup, his fun this afternoon is going to be, literally, watching paint dry.
*** *** ***
Five o’clock. Only another three and a half hours until it gets dark outside. Delio is busting. He can’t wait. He’s pulled away the masking and checked the paint. Its dry. He flipped on the lights once to see how they look, but its just too bright out to tell. He’ll have to wait. But he can’t. With its new, blue HID job, the front end of the Maxima is just looking tooooo sweet. He decides to go for a spin.
Delio hops behind the wheel and head for Doug’s house. With any luck, Doug will be home watching the game. Delio is dying to show off his new set up & maybe do some pre-dawn cruising.
He’s driving down Roland, doing 35 in a 40 zone, when a cop pulls him over. WTF?? Delio has no clue what he could’ve done. Wasn’t speeding, signaled his last lane change. What does this cop want?
The police officer approaches Delio’s open window.
Delio: “Yes, sir?”
Cop: “Son, are you aware that you headlights are painted blue?”
Delio (beaming): “Oh, you noticed that, huh?”
Cop: “Yes.
Delio: “That’s my new HID headlight system.”
Cop: “Does that strike you as safe?”
Delio: “Safe? Why, yes sir – more than safe. In some studies, HID’s have been shown to generate as much as 40% more visible light than conventional headlights.”
Cop (now confused): “Huh?”
Delio: “Haven’t you ever noticed those blue looking lights on the front of expensive cars like Mercedes and Lexus’?”
Cop: “Ahhh,…yeh, I have.”
Delio: “Well, that’s the same thing that I have.”
Cop: “But this ain’t no Mercedes.”
Delio: “I know, that’s the beauty of it, the technology is so simple that you can do it to any car – for not much money either!”
The two banter back and forth for a while before the cop lets Delio go. Delio has convinced him that this is the newest thing in headlight technology and is not a hazard at all, in fact, quite the opposite. A few moments later, Delio arrives at Doug’s house. He finds him on the sofa, watching the Mets and the Phillies.
Delio: “Dude, you’ve got to come out here and see what I’ve done to the Max.”
Doug: “You got a new mod?!?!”
Delio: “Yup! And its SAH-WEET too!”
Doug vaults off the couch and follows Delio down the stairs to the driveway. A minute later the two are standing in front of Delio’s Maxima. Doug’s jaw is gaping open in disbelief.
Delio: “What do you think, man?!”
Doug: “What the…? Why’d you do THAT?!”
Delio: “Its HID, man. I’ve got HID now!”
Doug: “It looks like,…like spray paint! Like you spray painted ‘em blue!!”
Delio: “Right! That’s basically HID.”
Doug (in complete disbelief): “WHAT!?!?!!! Where on earth did you get that from??! The blue from HID is caused by the arc created in the bulb, it causes the light to burn blue at the edges, creating a….
Delio: “That’s all a bunch of bull#%*$. I was hanging out with Y2KevSE, Lordrandall and Peel last night and I heard Peelboy say it himself. Its nothing but a thinly applied coat of blue paint.”
Doug: “NO,…but…but….if you’d stop and think for a minute,….
Delio (cutting him off mid sentence, is hearing nothing of it): “Come on, man – it’ll be getting dark soon, lets go for a ride. I can’t wait to see the look on some of those Civic and Integra driver faces when they see I’ve got HID. As soon as they see that, I bet they won’t want to race at all!”
Doug sees that he’s arguing a losing cause and jumps in the Maxima. The two take off for the strip.
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