Lamborghini gets LSU tiger stripes

SBNation's Spencer Hall caught up with one such individual who'd exercised that right -- Lafayette, La.'s Don Domingue, who last season adorned his yellow Lamborghini Gallardo (sticker price: somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000) with purple LSU Bayou Bengal stripes. Behold:





From Hall's must-read interview, a brief window into how one arrives at having tiger stripes painted on one's Lamborghini:


SH: Did you buy it knowing you were going to paint it in LSU colors?

DD: No. I drove it a while, and saw the yellow when I was watching a football game and noticed that the helmet color was the same color as my car, and I just put two and two together. I thought my car would look cool with some purple tiger stripes if I took it to the game. Just so happened we had three home games in a row coming up--Alabama, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss--and I thought I'd put the stripes on, go to the home games, and then after a few months take 'em off. I didn't realize the reaction they would get. Nobody wanted me to take the stripes off after that.

SH: When you went to the people who did the paint job: did they think you were insane, or did they just nod along and do it?

DD: Yeah, they kind of questioned it. But they weren't gonna refuse money, you know?

No, they weren't, because this is America, buddy. U-S-A! U-S-A!
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