This is my last post of photos from this year's Houston Auto Show and focuses on examples of the work of the city's custom houses, which occupied an amazing amount of real estate at the show. These places provide what you'd expect: egregious wheels, wild body modifications, custom paints and wraps (adhesive films that can be applied to a car's surface) and mechanical "upgrades." Frankly, I've never been impressed with this sort of thing - the prerogative of owners of relatively inexpensive cars with Boy Racer tastes in my admittedly minimalist view of automotive styling. I'm still largely unimpressed, but - as these photos indicate - tarting up cars is certainly not limited to cheap ones.
Jer
Since we very recently bought a BMW M4, I was amused to find that two M4s, having been subjected to customizers' ministrations, were on display. The first two M4 shots are of a car with a flat-finish wrap and some tricky wheels, while the other three show a car that has received a great deal of body modification, which - a representative told me - totaled about 25 grand US.
A Rolls covered with a flat-black wrap.
A two-tone Caddy ATS.
A couple of tricky Ferraris.
Tricksters Row.