Ed Lubky, 'The Bling King' of Prince Albert, spends a few hours each day customizing his vehicle with colourful decorations. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW)

By Teena Monteleone

Bling King

The ‘Bling King’ of Prince Albert

Sep 30, 2019 | 3:44 PM

Edward Lubky was having a hard time picking out his white Chevrolet sedan among a sea of vehicles in a parking lot.

“It all got started by me parking next to another white car and I decided I needed something to help make it easy to identify. So, it started with a red pinstripe and then I just kept going from there,” he said with a laugh.

Lubky’s vehicle is now anything but plain and you cannot help but have your attention drawn to it. It’s adorned with hundreds of sticky rhinestones and coloured dots. It has 80 feet of LED light strips on the top of the car, underneath and on the sides and 16 toggle switches just to control them. He’s replaced the traditional honk with a custom horn that plays everything from ‘Jingle Bells’ to ‘La Cucaracha.’ And his now colourful door panels have pictures of animals including goats, horses and birds.

“I like animals,” he said. “And well, what else am I going to put on it, dinosaurs?”

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Tina Paskiw from The Sign Shack in Prince Albert prints the pictures for Lubky’s car.

“When I first saw his car I thought ‘is this guy for real?’” she said. “I print the pictures and he puts them on himself because he has a vision of what he wants and every time he has come in here since, he has added more bling.”

It prompted Paskiw and coworker Randi to make a custom licence plate for their unique client whom they dubbed “The Bling King.”

“He is such a nice man. He comes in and knows what he wants. He is very patient and I just decided that we had to do a licence plate for him and call him the ‘Bling King’ because that’s what he is,” she said.

Lubky, who is a retired farmer and also spent 20 years in auto body repair and painting, said he worked all summer putting new decorations both inside the car and out. He said it’s simply “something to do to pass the time.”

“I work on it a couple hours a day, and if it wasn’t so cold I’d be working on it again,” he told paNOW.

Lubky plans to add at least 600 more rhinestone stickers to his vehicle. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW)

Lubky plans to add even more sparkle to his ride. In fact, he has about 600 more rhinestones just waiting to be placed on his dashboard.

“He’s just like a magpie. He likes shiny things,” Paskiw said

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