There is an optically clear protecting vinyl made by 3M, Avery, and a number of other people. It is very expensive and it is used primarily on the leading edges of the front of cars as an alternative to those ugly black Bras. I have always hated those particularly when I found out there weren’t tits under them.
I have never heard of anyone completely covering their car with the clear vinyl, but theoretically, since we wrap entire cars with printed vinyl, it is possible. My guess it would cost you something on the order of $4,000 plus for a SRT. Might as well use Imron.
We do some high-end sports cars every once and a while but it is a pain. We leave it to the little franchise guys. You would put it on your car’s nose, headlights, and air damn and maybe the mirrors. That would be a few hundred. Some times guys also put it on quarter panels to keep from getting rock chips thrown up by tires.
It is getting popular on road racecars. We just took a complete kit off a friend’s way cool Novi supercharged S2000. Man that thing shits and gits. It had yellowed and it was on a white car so he wanted it off. It was a bitch getting off and I think I charged him $300 for the removal. He didn’t have to pay for it, the manufacturer of the vinyl did. Another problem since the vinyl blocks the sun’s UV rays a car can fade at a different rate on the exposed and covered areas. That is not cool. We have had a problem with vinyl graphics on cars because when you remove it you can see the difference in the color of the paint.
Speaking of graphics, last month we did a silver Porsche in gray vinyl graphics and it looked HOT. I think I am going to some subtle gray graphics on my silver car.
If any of you guys have access to Adobe Illustrator in a few weeks I will have a CAD template for the SRT that will open in Illustrator. What is cool is you can play with different paint and graphics schemes. That is how we design the vehicle wraps. Just a thought.