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DECORATING YOUR
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 How many times during the Christmas season
have you seen cars driving around town with wreathes hanging from their grills or little
Santa's sticking from the top of their antenna?
And how many times have you said to
yourself, "I should have done something like that to my car for Halloween!" Below are a few ideas to get you started on decorating
your vehicle for Halloween. Use common sense and think safety first.
 License
plate frames are a
great way to express how much you love Halloween. We came up with a
few ideas for our engravings, but you can have these frames read just about anything you
want that will fit on the frame. "I believe in the Great Pumpkin",
"Happy Halloween", "This car stops at pumpkin patches", or the
address of your Halloween web site would all work well.
Usually all you
will need is a wrench or socket
set to remove your current license plate frame and replace it with the new, custom one. And if
you live in a state that requires both a front and rear license plate, you can show off
your custom frames coming and going.
Customized license plate frames are
available from many sources on the
Internet.
 Decorating the grill of your
car is fun and really sticks out during the Halloween season. During this time
of the year you can
find many ornaments suitable to act as grill decorations for your
Halloween Haunt-mobile.
In this example we used a common plastic pumpkin you
can find just about anywhere. First we replaced the flashing bulb that came in it, with a
non-flashing bulb. Flashing lights on your car would possibly be illegal
and dangerous to on-coming traffic.
 Next we
carefully drilled two holes into the back of the ornament and slipped a piece of bailing
wire (you could also use picture hanging wire) into one hole, through the body of the ornament and
out the other hole.
The wire is used to secure the ornament to the grill of the vehicle.
Remember that the ornament must be very secure to endure the vibration and bumps while the
vehicle is in motion. So, make sure it is
very securely attached before driving.
 Decorating the radio antenna on
your vehicle is a staple for holiday fun. A small pumpkin, skull, ghost or other ornament
works great and really sticks out. You can attach the ornament by
hot-gluing it to the antenna, but make sure that you do it in a way that it can be
removed if needed.
Remember, the faster a car goes the more wind
resistance the decoration will have to endure, so keep antenna decorations small.
We don't put anything larger than a ping-pong ball on the antenna.
 Fuzzy Dice?
No way, the staff at Halloween Online likes to hang strings
of fake garlic, rubber bats, pairs of skulls or small pumpkins from the rear-view mirrors
in all our
vehicles!
Just make sure that the Halloween decoration is not so large as to obscure your vision
through the wind-shield or can become an obstacle to your driving.
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