I don't believe it. On that stock vehicle, like every other vehicle made on the planet, the entire front end and rear end cap is painted plastic. I know what a mold would cost to make a stamped metal panel about 5 feet by 3 feet and bang out a single panel of white gold. Then, you'd also have to do the same for all the other panels.
Now, what I would believe is that it is merely painted with a white gold alloy, or simply a chrome plating. Either of those would be impressive by themselves. But actual panels made of white gold? No way.
So the $60/wk I'm spending at the pump is just paying for these rich bastards' toys?
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2012 Kia Soul 1.4k; 1.6L GDI, 6-speed auto; Bluetooth; SiriusXM; black hole in the back (tons of cargo space); no spare tire ; 37 MPG 2006 Mercury Mountaineer Totalled 1991 TRD FJ80 Katie 273k slightly modded, Part-time w/Longs - ROTF - axle build-up thread; big toy; BACK FROM THE DEAD; now serving minor in-town duties Sector 9 longboard; Bones bearings, Bones medium bushings, racing wheels, lowered, carves like a knife; Summer DD R/C Toys 2010 Losi R/C Micro Crawler; 1996 2-door Prado body; little toy 2011 twin Force R/C Helicopters; IR "guns"; Battle choppers
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"You're not allowed to use words like 'zirconium' without giving more info. That's a rule somewhere." -Jon Held
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slr maclaren.
if it were solid gold, it would weigh tons.
You can "white gold" plate metal. I have captained several boats that the owner had me install gold plated door handles, toilets, sinks, etc...... It doesn't have much weight at all because the millage of electroplating is very thin.
Cool if it is white gold plated, you never have to wax that thing, not that it would make a shit to the owner. It would only burden guys like me that take care of rich peoples toys.
Those oil sheik families in the middle east make Donald Trump look blue collar...I would believe it.
__________________ 1991 FJ80: 30mm MAF spacers all around; 33x12.5" M/Ts on Ion 171 black wheels; 126K and counting
1998 Ranger flareside ex-cab 4x4: Farm-mobile
Oil makes the world go 'round...literally...if you have a lot of it, you're pocketbook is going to be in pretty decent shape for a long time.
__________________ 1991 FJ80: 30mm MAF spacers all around; 33x12.5" M/Ts on Ion 171 black wheels; 126K and counting
1998 Ranger flareside ex-cab 4x4: Farm-mobile
Until the last clip where he made his bimmer do cartwheels in the sand, I was rather impressed with the driving.
Plus, M5s are only what, $100k brand new? If drifting homeboy is the heir prince, he probably gets more than that for his weekly allowance.
__________________ 1991 FJ80: 30mm MAF spacers all around; 33x12.5" M/Ts on Ion 171 black wheels; 126K and counting
1998 Ranger flareside ex-cab 4x4: Farm-mobile
it's what happens when you don't let people drink.
one of my clients, who breeds arabs, has a stallion whose full sister (the horse) lived in australia. she recently sold to someone in qatar for 1,000,000 euros. "why oh why din't i buy the filly instead?"
then there were these brothers from dubai who bought a racehorse from a fella in england. they were so impressed with his stable, the made an offer to buy it. no sale, the farm was in the family for something like 300 years. so they went back home to dubai and did a bit of homework on the stable owner. come to find out that he had the bulk of his fortune in silver. so, they get the family together and bought up every scrap of silver on the market, and promptly dumped it back on the market, driving the price of silver down to near nothing (was back around 1979-1980 when silver spiked to $50/oz, and plummeted to $5). next thing, they go back to england to fella's farm, "ready to sell now?"
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