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Old May 24, 2010 | 05:07 PM
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Default Poppin' metalic machine grey paint

Waxed the car yesterday. Sunny today. Here's the finish with no flash.
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 06:01 PM
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very nice... that car belongs in an art gallery

redx21.jpg
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Vegaslegal
Waxed the car yesterday. Sunny today. Here's the finish with no flash.
wow it looks like a mirror!


here are 3 photos of mine after I just waxed it:


Near the fountain in my front yard, that is my butler standing beside the car:




Yeah that is Paris Hilton sitting in the front seat. She said my car was hot:




Here is my car parked in my private airport on runway #6 located in my back yard.

 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Vegaslegal
Waxed the car yesterday. Sunny today. Here's the finish with no flash.
Does it look anything like this?
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 10:52 PM
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looks real good, nice job
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 10:58 PM
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Check out this pic of mine..... It is soooo shiny you can see the reflection of me in it. Yep, thats right...... I'm naked and proud.
















 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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geez guys, chill. He just didn't get the link right, i'm sure we've all been there.
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 11:18 PM
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Maybe you are the one that needs to chill. I think everyone else has a sense of humor about this, and hopefully VegasLegal will get a bit of a laugh about it when he reads the posts.
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by HowardJ
geez guys, chill. He just didn't get the link right, i'm sure we've all been there.
You are so right, I took six pics of mine after a good polish and none came out. By the time I found out five hours later it was too late to do them again as the car is black and it was covered in dust by then. I still have no pics of it on its own after five years.
I call her Christine now, even if she isn't red.

Chrysler makes killer cars.
 

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Old May 25, 2010 | 01:01 PM
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Don't mind them Vegas, the great unwashed masses just don't understand Machine Grey......



& it's impossible to get a photo that looks like what it looks like to the human eye??
 

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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 12:34 AM
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This is my favorite color on this car, love it.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 08:48 AM
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Let me get in on this!



 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 11:10 AM
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It is my favorite color as well.

If only SRT's came this colour.

Try finding one for sale in the roadster version with a stick shift.

Mission impossible.

roadster with a stickshift
 

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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 11:36 AM
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My XF is asleep in the garage, taking a winter nap.

Here are some summer pix of the 73 BMW 3.0 CSI Coupe, after a nice clean up:

(Real men love Turquoise Green, an original BMW color in 1973...LOL...)

 

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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Kodebuster
My XF is asleep in the garage, taking a winter nap.

Here are some summer pix of the 73 BMW 3.0 CSI Coupe, after a nice clean up:

(Real men love Turquoise Green, an original BMW color in 1973...LOL...)

https://www.crossfireforum.org/gallery/data/500/BMW-2.jpghttps://www.crossfireforum.org/galle.../500/BMW-1.jpg
along with the 507, my all-time fav bmw. beautiful car.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jlindsey86
This is my favorite color on this car, love it.
Ugh, looks like wet primer
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 10:08 PM
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Aren't you glad you're not one of the 5,999,950,000 people that don't have one of these!!!!
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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Since you asked, not really. Red N/A's are faster and better looking.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by musicnsurf
along with the 507, my all-time fav bmw. beautiful car.
musicensurf...yep and this BMW is quite unique for the color, but it is also quite fast and handles very well for a four (4) seater sedan coupe of its day.

Once you get it over 80 mph, the engine just sings quietly, and there is ample power and throttle to take it to 130 mph quickly without breaking a sweat.

But with any classic over 35 years old, when things go south, it gets very expensive in a hurry, and finding parts can become a global effort....
 

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Old Dec 19, 2010 | 06:36 AM
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[quote=InfernoRedXfire]Since you asked, not really. Red N/A's are faster and better looking.

http://www.nps.gov/grca/parknews/ima...61130_02_1.jpg

My favorite RED XF.
 
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