The "I just drove through a huge puddle of paint" look is fairly popular amongst those with exceptional taste in automobile modification. Normally the color of choice is yellow (to increase HP) but this guy changed it up and went with silver.
The HP gain that silver gives you is unknown but it is assumed to be less than that of yellow.
it's like he took that piece of shit neon... strapped new body kits on it... painted it... then drove it through 18 big piles of sand... to get that.... "20 year old car" look...