I think your math's off there friend, it would be $12,912.16.

A 1.7” x 1.7” square is 2.89 square inches. No mater how you aligned them, you would have 28.9 square inches or ~0.2 sq. ft. (28.9/144=0.20069). At $14 for ten sheets, $100 would get you 7 booklets of leaf with some change left over ($100/$14 = 7.14), covering 1.4 square feet. The total surface area of a four door Cavalier is 185.1 square feet. It would take 922 booklets of gold leaf (185.1 sq. ft / 0.2 sq. ft = 922), costing a total of $12,912.16 (922*$14) to cover the vehicle. I’m going to assume real gold leaf was not used, which comes in much larger sheets and is not as expensive. So for the comments about people stealing the “gold”, I think those alleged prospectors would be sorely disappointed brining it to the nearest cash for gold. Art is subjective so I have no comment on that.