Thanks for all the great feedback. To answer some questions:
1) Future designs will depend on how well the products sell. Tony did great work for us, and he was compensated appropriately. I also gave each of the three members (and Tony) one free product from the shop as a show of appreciation for letting us use their cars in the design. That all adds up to a little bit of overhead that has to be overcome before we "break even". Additional designs would also require either upgrading to the CafePress's premium account, which requires a monthy fee (current shop is free), or, add a second separate shop for each design. More things to consider.
2) Future designs will also depend on the submitted images. For those wanting an Aerocoupe, we tried, but didn't come up with the right combination or quality of Aerocoupe images to have them included. Same will apply to non-SS and third gen entries.
3) It was asked if there would be any products with just the straight Monte Carlo SS logo (presumably without the .com site tag). The short answer is no. These are website products, used to a) show your pride in the site, and b) help in advertising the site, and c) help fund the site maintenance fund.
4) It was asked if we could have more products with black background. This could be taken two ways.. so I'll answer both. First, CafePress offers a limited product line (just about all of it is represented in our shop), and 99% of that line is non-black background material. We opted not to include the one black item.. a black T-Shirt because the design did not look "right" on it. We tried a few different ways, but did not come up with a good looking product. We'll keep trying. Perhaps future designs will work better on that one black background. Second, if you were referring to the design itself having a black background, I'm not so sure that would produce a good image of the cars in the design. While attempting to match the design to the black T-Shirt, we made the background of the design transparent. The resulting car images were difficult to define in that mode. I'll leave it to Tony to say if a back background design is possible or would look good. Since CafePress's products are for the most part white based, I think we'll stick with the current style design.
Hopefully that answers all the questions... well, except who will ultimately model the thong.
