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CL EXCLUSIVE: RR Phantom crashed in Gumball 3000 pics (56k Umm nope)

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Old 05-02-06, 10:04 AM
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Ouccch!! Ah, is this the first accident for this year's Gumball?
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RR will probably be happy to see theat gaudy looking thing off the road. With that paint job, it's not exactly the image RR wants to convey.
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Old 05-02-06, 11:45 AM
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Looks like a lot of damage, but what is with the paint job
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kinda off topic but how long til this gumball goes on DVD anyone know?
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I must say that the RR held up pretty dag-gum good considering the speed it was going at the time of the wreck, any other car I'd say it would be unrecognizable.
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Old 05-02-06, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by GS300Rich
Looks like a lot of damage, but what is with the paint job
it's the gumball 3000 we talking about here man. youhave it all the way from the mildest to the wildest
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Old 05-02-06, 05:12 PM
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Im thinking it might be Vynil.

Sucks to have crashed, but thats what happens when you play with the bull... sometimes you get the horns!

Dibs on the flying lady grill!
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Old 05-02-06, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by jwa
RR will probably be happy to see theat gaudy looking thing off the road. With that paint job, it's not exactly the image RR wants to convey.
It's a Vinyl wrap. They're commonly used to market a specific campaign i.e record label, beverage target marketing.

Glad to see the occupants are okay in spite of they're reckless driving. I wonder if they could put a salvage title on that thing.
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Old 05-02-06, 06:22 PM
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bad accients on Gumball 3000! Driver and passagers were alive that's lucky!
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Old 05-02-06, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by rominl
it's the gumball 3000 we talking about here man. youhave it all the way from the mildest to the wildest

I realize that, but painting a rr in camo colors should be filed under stupid
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Old 05-02-06, 08:11 PM
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As ugly or loud as it may seem to you and perhaps others, You do realize this is not paint.
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Old 05-03-06, 02:27 AM
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Ok here is what happened. My brother was doing around 80 and Phantom just flew pass them. Unfortunately slight turn was ahead and Phantom couldn’t handle it smashing into the rails on the right side and then doing 180 spin and smashing back at the left side rail. On few pics you can see the owner and his friend wearing gumball vip passes around their necks.

Because of the debris on the road white Ferrari 612 had a flat tire just right next to Phantom on the other side of the road.

Here are few more pics







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Old 05-03-06, 02:35 AM
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Now as far as the SLRs go, both of them had the same problem of oil squirting outside at the same time. So it must have been something on the road or maybe some bad pothole …

Anyway both SLRs are going home!







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Great pics Vladi
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boy this sounds "fun". definitely keep us posted on all the updated news!
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