'Conspicuous by Design' article on Wendy Brown's Hot Pink Pearl…

Well have Pink, Pretentious, and Plenty Of It BY KEVIN BOALES endy Browns 1989 Probe is and always has been an extension of her personalir ty. When she lled out our informs tion sheet listing details of the car, she answered the question about her reason for building the car with a single word 7 ATTENTION! An avid Jet Ski racer, Wendy and her friend Matthew Lyons wanted the car to provide better-thanavcr age style on their trips to the Colorado River. A trip to Doug Starbucks Custom Paint in Corona, California resulted in shaving all the emblems from the Probes exteA rior. Starbucks also installed a full Stillen ground effects package that includes front and rear fascias and running boards. The final step at Dougs Corona shop was the applie cation of House of Kolors retina~ popping Hot Pink Pearl. With the bright knob turned up as high as she could twist it, Wendy next selected tunes appropriate for the rest of the package. Building on a Fosgate BOO-watt amplier and a family of four ten-inch subwoofers, All orlglllal idenlilicalmn emblems were shaved prior to the spraying oi House of Kalar Hat Pink Pearl, which should be seen in be properly appreciated. a pair of Fosgato 5-1/45 were plant- ed in front to handle the details. A Pioneer FM/CD player drives the whole system. While all these changes were tak- ing place on Wendy's car, she was hitching rides with her then-roomA mate Rena Arutunian, who by Coin cidence also owns a Prnbe. As we hear it, the competition over the two Fords got pretty serious a SPORT COMPACT CAR/JUNE 1994 s: