This is a tribute to VPN, whose work you could find on Ribotlabs in 2009, but meanwhile Ribotlabs closed. :(
He now has his own site, VPN's garage! :D Ribot was the first to create simlish cars, based on the car brands
Maxis had introduced (some day in the future I'll also upload my stuff here from the very beginning when I mostly
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As another part of my metro project, here's the Tornado fence and matching gate aged the rusty way:


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I grungyfied all community wall speakers and also the residential one in a bluish metal look.


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Along with the gas stations I made a set of metal siding garage doors. Colors are blue, light blue, black, steel
and rust, using the stock maxis door. There's a slight distortion around the windows area (although I used the
black windowless recolor as base and it's all straight on the template) but I hope you like it anyway. :)


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I recolored the gas station by Sims Design Avenue (now down) to have several brands.
I made two versions of each, you can choose new and shiny or old and grungy (great for flashbacks in stories).
Everything is simified, I mean REALLY everything, even the two lines inside the pump you can hardly read. :D
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With the differently colored parts it's still a favourite of my early grunge work. :)

1958 Chevy Impala by Fresh-Prince/Vovillia:

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Remember this is before I used texture overlays for my grunge! All rust and dirt is handmade. :D

second 1948 Tucker Torpedo by Fresh-Prince:

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Since in the beginning this journal was planned to become the ultimate collection of all my stuff it's time
to actually dig those old treasures up. I'm beginning with GoS uploads, going through the whole list of
my 2000+ posts so nothing will escape me, and the first thing I shared there were grungy cars.

My first was the 1970 AMC Javelin by Vovillia:

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