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towards the headliner and cried out: Wicked Ink Tattoo Chevy! The freeway opened up again and traffic began to flow. You can probably come up with a large variety of selling points when selling a car. One that usually works is when the seller claims you look good in the car he is trying to sell. And it is even better if you hear it from the seller´s wife when the husband does not hear. It is probably the

San Antonio sunset.

Wicked Ink Tattoo Chevy!

oldest trick in the book, but alluring anyway. Some car dealers hand out pens to customers or balloons to their kids in order to attract customers. But if you are the owner of a tattoo shop you can always entice potential buyers by throwing in a tattoo with the car purchase. So did Roy Renteria in San Antonio when I met him at his tattoo shop Wicked Ink Tattoos to inspect a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air for Sven-Olov Aringskog. - If you buy the car, I will give you a tattoo with the purchase, he said while I was checking out the Chevy parked outside his shop.

My client, Sven-Olov, had been searching for a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air two-door Sedan to turn into a

The 1955 Chevy was a good candidate for a race car.

Roy Renteria owned three tattoo shops in San Antonio at the time of the sale.

Roy Renteria, to the right, and his associate offered a tattoo included in the car deal.

race car. We found the car in San Antonio during fall 2010 and it arrived in Sweden a few months later. It was a good car to start with. The original in-line six cylinder engine had been replaced by a modern 350 V8 engine and it also had a few other modifications. However, most of the modifications have been modified again. Sven-Olov´s ambition is to build a race car after his own specs. Two years ago it got a new paint job and today the complete driveline