Fancy Boy Mod Of The Year: Custom Altoids Tin
08-03-2007, 06:30 PM
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Fancy Boy Mod Of The Year: Custom Altoids Tin
One of my OCD pet peeves is the sound of mint tins sliding around in a glove box or cupholder during significant manuevering. Yes, I'm serious.
Luckily, I'm friends with one of the packaging designers for Altoids, and before I got my TSX, I asked him if he could sneak in a design that would match the color and size of the red felt psuedo-ashtray. Result: the Altoids Sugar-Free Smalls tin.
He matched up the red as close as possible... because it's aluminum the red on the tin is a bit on the purple side, but close enough. More importantly though, the tin fits snugly into the ashtray and never rattles around, with just enough space to finger it out when needed. Huzzah!
The Sugar Free Smalls tin should have already shown up in your town by now, so go cop the hotness.
Luckily, I'm friends with one of the packaging designers for Altoids, and before I got my TSX, I asked him if he could sneak in a design that would match the color and size of the red felt psuedo-ashtray. Result: the Altoids Sugar-Free Smalls tin.
He matched up the red as close as possible... because it's aluminum the red on the tin is a bit on the purple side, but close enough. More importantly though, the tin fits snugly into the ashtray and never rattles around, with just enough space to finger it out when needed. Huzzah!
The Sugar Free Smalls tin should have already shown up in your town by now, so go cop the hotness.
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Nice job!
08-04-2007, 02:53 PM
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Maybe you have to be a tad OCD to appreciate this, and since I am, this is awesome. 
08-04-2007, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by curls
Awesome! But, what if your tin isn't 100% full? Then the mints rattle IN the tin! 
Dear God.
I'd have to build some kind of mint-feeder device to the tin to make sure there's always 60 mints. Sounds like a challenge...
08-05-2007, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Don Hoagie
Dear God.
I'd have to build some kind of mint-feeder device to the tin to make sure there's always 60 mints. Sounds like a challenge...
I'd have to build some kind of mint-feeder device to the tin to make sure there's always 60 mints. Sounds like a challenge...
Red text! Red text! Please tell me he forgot the red text!!!
08-05-2007, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SoCaliTrojan
you can probably fit two in there. I use mine for excess coins and pennies, so i won't be getting one any time soon
08-05-2007, 02:31 AM
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Originally Posted by cybereclipse
haha so what do u use the coin collecter thing in the center console for then....
The coin collector doesnt have a slot for pennies
08-05-2007, 12:59 PM
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OP, Slap yourself.
Seriously.
Slap yourself.
Seriously.
Slap yourself.
08-05-2007, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
OP, Slap yourself.
Seriously.
Slap yourself.
Seriously.
Slap yourself.
I apologize for turning your chatroom world upside-down stogie... I'm sure your life would've been much richer if I'd started a thread about wut iz da best rim size 4 da TSX
08-05-2007, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Don Hoagie
Dear God.
I'd have to build some kind of mint-feeder device to the tin to make sure there's always 60 mints. Sounds like a challenge...
I'd have to build some kind of mint-feeder device to the tin to make sure there's always 60 mints. Sounds like a challenge...
engineering ftw