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Apr 15 '05 by Threadless

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The first completed Threadless van

Located in Colorado Springs, the president of Threadless' brother, Josh, has covered his entire mini-van with Threadless stickers. It is a site to behold. If you are interested in covering your vehicle with Threadless stickers, send us an email and we'll send you some stickers and a $100 Threadless gift certificate when you send pictures of the completed works.

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mezo on Apr 15 '05 at 9:23am

BOY OH BOY! What a treasure, that van.
If only I still had my 1983 Buick Skylark (aka the Blueick), I'd totally stickerfy it.

JeF on Apr 15 '05 at 9:32am

that is so awesome

shimala on Apr 15 '05 at 9:41am

Holy Schnikies!

¥s on Apr 15 '05 at 10:30am

wtf! thats insane!

how many stickers did it take to cover it??

send me a case and i'll cover my Daewoo for sure

Jaycee on Apr 15 '05 at 10:33am

hahaha! that's fantastic!

skaw on Apr 15 '05 at 11:54am

it took about 800 stickers

Freeek on Apr 15 '05 at 12:03pm

hahaha, if me and my friends buy an old truck this summer like we were semi-planning to do, i'll convince them to do this!

maverlicious on Apr 15 '05 at 12:11pm

sweet! very sweet

jeffdigital on Apr 15 '05 at 12:26pm

so you'll send us stickers to cover our vehicles? then if we submit a photo we get a 100 bucks in gift certificates?

how about other stuff than vehicles...?

Jaycee on Apr 15 '05 at 12:37pm

um... so you're going to send about 800 stickers to anyone who emails you? sounds expensive to me!

skaw on Apr 15 '05 at 1:47pm

just vehicles

Jaycee on Apr 15 '05 at 1:54pm

i suppose it has yo be your own vehicle... hmmm...

JeF on Apr 15 '05 at 1:58pm

haha .. yea

mezo on Apr 15 '05 at 2:19pm

What if we were to slap them over "W" stickers which are currently plastered to a gardjillion cars (and by cars, I mean Lexuses)?

Threadless.com could be the new Zorro or something!

daven3 on Apr 15 '05 at 2:39pm

if you send me 800 stickers i'll find something to put them on. does covering live farm animals get me anything?

Jaycee on Apr 15 '05 at 2:42pm

depends. live before or afterwards?

jeffdigital on Apr 15 '05 at 6:46pm

lol yeah send me 800 stickers and i'll cover my whole town with them.

jeffdigital on Apr 15 '05 at 6:46pm

i can also pass them out vigorously.

evilina on Apr 15 '05 at 8:40pm

threadless, if you really are sending out 800 stickers to people, send them my way. i will cover my sac in one hour, without hesitation. two thumbs up to josh & the van.

raconteur on Apr 15 '05 at 9:54pm

I'm totally up for it. Send me 800 stickers and I will definately sticker up my neon..which most likely doesnt require 800 stickers. Heck, free stickers and $100 worth of Threadless. Where is the downside? Where do I send the emailt oo to get the stickers...

TomatoVSC on Apr 15 '05 at 10:07pm

I'll DEFINITELY cover my car. *sends email*

justme_evan on Apr 16 '05 at 12:40am

My friends car is alrady covered in stickers and racing stripes (also known as electrical tape) he says he wnats to do it...........where do we send the email to tell you guys we want to do it?

justme_evan on Apr 16 '05 at 12:41am

Also, why does the page name thing at the top of the screen say "THE BURRITO" when you click on the link to see the other pics?

eskimokiss on Apr 16 '05 at 2:54am

Jacob Dehart :

"Oh terrific!! Great Idea?!?! 'Just send us an email and we'll send you some stickers and a $100 Threadless gift certificate' What were you thinking?!?!
800 stickers x 400 users later!?!?! Not to mention all those $100 gift vouchers!!!!"

skaw :

"It sounded like a good idea at the time... plus I didn't think that many idiots would ruin their cars just for free stickers and a couple o' tees"

Jacob :

" Consider yourelf off my buddy list on YayHooray!!!"

skaw :

*sulk* whimper*

plinx on Apr 16 '05 at 7:45am

Maybe the team should give one street point for the photo of the threadless sticker on our cars.. It's always advertising..

shimala on Apr 16 '05 at 10:30am

I don't even think we have 800 stickers left to give out

skaw on Apr 16 '05 at 11:36am

dudes we still have over 75,000 stickers left from our last batch of 100,000

jeffdigital on Apr 16 '05 at 12:05pm

I can go vandalize a used car lot with those 75,000 stickers.

800 each...
That's 93 cars total...
Meaning I'd be recieving $9,300...
$15 each, I could buy 620 shirts...

Oh God, now I really want to!

:P

justme_evan on Apr 16 '05 at 12:30pm

so, judging from eskimokisses comment, I assume that means they won't really do it huh?

.............and then sadness overcame evan like a dark cloud of....err.....sadness....................

justme_evan on Apr 16 '05 at 12:31pm

how about we pay for the stickers at first, but when we cover the car, we get a refund for however much we pay for the stickers along with the gift certificate?

Yeah? I think it sounds good.

skaw on Apr 16 '05 at 2:51pm

oh we're really going to do it. i want to see before pictures of the car before we send the stickers and after pictures...

bscuarred on Apr 16 '05 at 5:42pm

oh goody! screw a new paint job! i get threadless stickers!

TomatoVSC on Apr 16 '05 at 9:25pm

Cool, where do we send the email? I used your little form thing for "Contact Us", not sure if that's where I'm supposed to email though..

xchicvicious on Apr 17 '05 at 12:52am

awesome! very awesome! i think everyone needs one of those..

sKp on Apr 17 '05 at 9:13am

that is one hell of a burrito. way to go josh

dewittjm on Apr 17 '05 at 7:05pm

I'll do that to my bike.

evilina on Apr 17 '05 at 8:13pm

what's this burrito? i haven't seen it, but just hearing about it is making me hungry.

skaw on Apr 17 '05 at 9:48pm

dudes, my brother's van is called the "burrito"

eskimokiss on Apr 17 '05 at 10:06pm

Stolen from Mexico?

daven3 on Apr 18 '05 at 11:36pm

so what is keeping people from saying they'll do it just to get the mass box of threadless stickers??

Moglandor on Apr 18 '05 at 11:52pm

I think stickers, wherever they are placed, advertise for Threadless, so if you lie to get a bunch of stickers - it doesn't hurt them too much to take the risk.

TimTheSloth on Apr 19 '05 at 1:36pm

Why would you want to lie to get a giant box of stickers? What would you do with them all, sell them on the blackmarket?

deepfriedmario on Apr 19 '05 at 11:25pm

In a few years the stickers will be worth like $100,000!

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tsi on May 23 '05 at 8:29pm

does a bike count as a vehicle? I'm afraid it's the only vehicle I own.

hannieo on May 23 '05 at 9:01pm

Cool! I live near colorado springs...
If I ever see that car driving around, I'm oging to laugh. That is awesome.

sugar turd on May 24 '05 at 1:15am

is this true? seriously....is it?

sveninho on May 24 '05 at 2:01am

how can i get some threadless stickers? :)

289 days later

roulo42 on Mar 09 '06 at 12:23pm

It's not finished! What about the roof?

CharlesFesta on Mar 09 '06 at 12:34pm

ahh yes the first of the fleet

shondi on Mar 09 '06 at 4:33pm

Unfortunately, we are no longer sending out stickers to cover cars. We just couldn't keep up and it got pretty darn expensive! Now we send out a sticker or two with each order.

toiletmitten on Mar 09 '06 at 4:36pm

whooooooooa! did he count how many stickers?

ziggystardust on Mar 09 '06 at 4:36pm

nooooooo!
if i had a car i would have done that!
thanks for crushing my soul!

OlliRudi on Mar 09 '06 at 4:45pm

dude, that's awesome. (in a couple of years i'll have enough stickers from my tee purchases to cover a car, too)

26 days later

Grand Admiral Thrawn on Apr 05 '06 at 5:27pm

is there any way we could buy a few stickers, i just bought a few shirts and got those stickers, but am hesitant to use them for fear of not getting any more. Please! Allow us to pay you to let us advertise for you! I already tell every single person i can at my school to buy shirts from here, or at least from my link to here...

kayceislost on Apr 05 '06 at 5:30pm

OlliRudi, at 4:45pm on Mar 9, 2006
dude, that's awesome. (in a couple of years i'll have enough stickers from my tee purchases to cover a car, too)

agreed. and i think i could safely put stickers all over my 86 accord without decreasing its worth anymore.

fc gravy on Apr 05 '06 at 5:33pm

wow! west coast customs have nothing on this bad mamajama

ponkie on Apr 05 '06 at 5:34pm

thats so cool - if they were still doing this, i'd be all for covering my car.

retroceso on Apr 05 '06 at 5:48pm

how come the top isnt cov ered?

retroceso on Apr 05 '06 at 5:48pm

you guys should get a mailbox car and cover the wide of it with a huge threadless sticker

cassiepaige on Apr 05 '06 at 5:50pm

I'd so do this. I have a 96 mercury tracer. I doubt it would need 800 sitckers though. Sounds like a fun summer project to me.

streetwise on Apr 05 '06 at 6:00pm

Is the "burrito" is full of gas?

5$, sure to get attention wherever it's parked.
I'll stick with my single sticker on the bumper, and
leave the heavy wallpapering to the pros. (;

ponkie on Apr 05 '06 at 6:21pm

you all should send me some stickers =)
my car needs a makeover

Shebly on Apr 05 '06 at 6:25pm

Oh! Neato!

thenew_zero on Apr 05 '06 at 7:39pm

so did anyone ever actually do this (aside from the van)?

KatieTheMofo on Apr 05 '06 at 7:42pm

I built my house out of Threadless stickers and I didn't get nuffin, NUFFIN!

Roostersauce on Apr 05 '06 at 7:53pm

what about a bicycle??

mexicosgreatest on Apr 05 '06 at 7:54pm

you guys have too much time on your hands, i think it would have been cool if you took a little more time and spelt out threadless on the side =)

OlliRudi on Apr 05 '06 at 8:26pm

how much would a farm animal covered in stickers be worth?

gocryemokid on Apr 05 '06 at 8:28pm

.i have i love threadless stickers all over my shop.

i wonder if i can tattoo somebody with that slogan

Katie_ladie on Apr 05 '06 at 8:28pm

i never loved a van soo much in my life

label on Apr 05 '06 at 8:44pm

I have like a set of 20 stickers... wish I had more!

trishxtrash on Apr 05 '06 at 10:27pm

Hahah that's fucking amazing! if I had a car I would definatly do that!!!

Roostersauce on Apr 05 '06 at 10:34pm

im serious about the bicycle
could i do that?

greenfinch on Apr 05 '06 at 10:41pm

i have a sticker on my bumper and some onmy trunk as well - that should count for something!!!

anissabee on Apr 06 '06 at 1:17am

I like that more than one person has proposed covering farm animals with stickers. I would go with cows, they're the slowest.

numbb on Apr 06 '06 at 1:34am

sweeet

ShineOfObscurity on Apr 06 '06 at 1:40am

The roof isn't done. Slackers!

numbb on Apr 06 '06 at 2:23am

it's not complete until you get the top of the van.

ponkie on Apr 06 '06 at 2:25am

my car would look better than it does now if i put stickers all over it

India on Apr 06 '06 at 2:46am

Holy shit. i like in Linn county, also in Iowa. i wonder if ill run into that van one of these days... Black Hawk isnt that far from here.

India on Apr 06 '06 at 2:46am

live*

GallyAl on Apr 06 '06 at 3:07am

I'd love to cover my car in threadless stickers..only problem being when I drive into work, I fear my boss may catch to what I do all day when I should be working!

hannabear on Apr 06 '06 at 3:29am

holy moly! :O

lol cows are the slowest? I heard they run really fast after you if you tip them over! hahaha

phones on Apr 06 '06 at 6:06am

damn, i'm half way done on my skateboard. Can i get a bouncy ball or something?

Bramish on Apr 06 '06 at 6:12am

What if I covered myself in stickers?

phones on Apr 06 '06 at 6:12am

wasn't sixwhiteones gonna make a stiker shirt or something?

^you'll get a free wax job bram

Bramish on Apr 06 '06 at 6:15am

JEF!

phones on Apr 06 '06 at 6:19am

JEF!

zipzapixel on Apr 06 '06 at 6:49am

can we cover something else, instead of a vehicle. such as a wall?

mmm...Jones on Apr 06 '06 at 6:53am

I'll cover my scooter

Cause I'm pimp like that.

It'd be a pretty sweet scooter.

zipzapixel on Apr 06 '06 at 6:54am

ill cover a wagon...

jarrennylund on Apr 06 '06 at 6:58am

I'll cover my entire penis. I don't think it should take more than one sticker. So send me a sticker and I'll send you a little photo to add to your spank banks :P

mindtrance on Apr 06 '06 at 8:00am

what if I get a sweet ass vinyl to put on my eclipse? like a riced out threadless street racer car :D

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PixelMAniatik on Apr 29 '06 at 12:50pm

Que loco! xD

zimfreak on Apr 29 '06 at 12:51pm

HOLY SHIT

112 days later

etwod on Aug 20 '06 at 2:36am

I got a scooter I would be willing to cover entirely in stickers~! I read that you canceled bc too many idiots were wanting to do it but im just hoping you up for another go.

It doesnt take that many to cover a scooter- plus its already black

NatySpaghetti on Aug 20 '06 at 2:44am

haha this is hilarious

etwod on Aug 20 '06 at 2:47am

I kno, I hope I can get that gift certificate for spreadin the threadless love all over my scooter.

jwalsh on Aug 20 '06 at 8:33am

haha that van is awesomee!

shatteredglass88 on Aug 20 '06 at 8:57am

a year later, I wonder if it's still the same...

2 days later

eskimopunk on Aug 22 '06 at 9:09pm

i think i should do this with the old stickers....

Egirl3538 on Aug 22 '06 at 9:32pm

huh Yea I have this 65 Ford Galaxie in my driveway that would look killer all Threadless-fied. It needs some work but they body & interior are in good shape. My grandpa gave it to us, he bought it new back then. I want to fix it up but I already have a car so it is just sitting there right now. If you all ever decide you need a Threadless car... get in touch haha

i carnt spel on Aug 22 '06 at 9:38pm

he missed a spot

bananaanna14014 on Aug 22 '06 at 9:41pm

hmm
what about bikes?

Gunslinger_ Extraordinaire on Aug 22 '06 at 10:52pm

WOAH NELLY!!!!

etwod on Aug 22 '06 at 11:02pm

Can I get a bunch of htese to cover my scooter in? I dont really care all tooooo much about those prize winnings if its not gonna happen (but itd be nice)

Its jetblack with those side things which'd make more room for stickers.