GTA Online player Harold Williams has spent two hours customising a car that survived thirty seconds outside Los Santos Customs, eighteen of which were spent finding a good angle for a photograph. Williams described the build as a restrained expression of his personal taste. It featured chrome bodywork, purple underglow and a spoiler selected after comparing every available spoiler twice. “I didn’t want it looking like everyone else’s,” he said. “There’s a difference between the silver wheels and the slightly darker silver wheels. You notice it in the right light.”
Much of the session was devoted to paint. Williams briefly settled on black before testing several pearlescent finishes, returning to black, deciding that black was too obvious and choosing chrome. He then revisited the wheels to see how they worked with the chrome.
The car was intended for a meet later that evening. Williams had planned to arrive slowly, park at an angle and allow people to ask what he had done to it. He left the garage, stopped just beyond the entrance and rotated the camera. A passing player on an Oppressor Mk II offered the first feedback.
Williams did not immediately identify the sound as a missile warning because he was checking whether the purple light was visible beneath the rear bumper. By the time he looked up, several of his design decisions had become airborne.
The resulting wreck retained enough of one wheel for him to confirm that he had preferred the other silver. “I hadn’t even shown anyone the interior,” he said.
Williams has since contacted Mors Mutual to recover the insured vehicle. He confirmed that the loss was not permanent, although the careful reveal he had rehearsed would now be preceded by an insurance claim.
Asked whether he would change anything before taking it out again, he said he was considering the darker wheels. He has returned to Los Santos Customs to check.
