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Old 06-15-11, 07:38 AM
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Went to New York this past weekend. On my way to Penn Station Saturday morning I spotted this. eeek!

Old 06-15-11, 07:40 AM
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If a person is going to paint their car that color and try to stand out, they could at least get a set of wheels...
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Excellent theft-prevention

(Unless someone needs it for the parts...)

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Old 06-15-11, 07:55 AM
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Retired taxi/limo?
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Robin's Egg Pearl was going to be the next big LS430 hit color right after Cypress Pearl and Briarwood Pearl. However, when an engineer substituted the binomial nomenclature in the name, Turdus migratorius, interest waned.
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Originally Posted by caddyowner
Robin's Egg Pearl was going to be the next big LS430 hit color right after Cypress Pearl and Briarwood Pearl. However, when an engineer substituted the binomial nomenclature in the name, Turdus migratorius, interest waned.
Hahaha

+1 for theft prevention....at least you can say it's one-of-a-kind
Old 06-15-11, 09:37 AM
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Theft prevention - indeed...bet the color looked better on the chip.
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I certainly wouldn't be choosing that color but with some tasteful VIP 20's with match color inserts, tint, dropped, it actually could work.
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so i know i'm kind of color blind (can really on see a few of the primary colors and thats about it), and at first i was looking at the pic like other than ugly wheels i don't see the problem. but after reading what u all wrote i guess its a ugly light blue to me
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what. the. f***.
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Originally Posted by sojah
so i know i'm kind of color blind...
The owner of that LS must be as well....I wish I was colorblind so I could've avoided seeing the true color
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oh wow, why....
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Must be once owned by the Al-Thani family, every cars they owned is painted that turquoise color:

J/K, LS430 seems to be wayyyy too low end for that family, maybe is their butler's car?



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I think I've seen the turquoise LS's wife's car... in Mass. a few years back, I saw a pink (ala Mary Kaye cosmetics) LS430 driving around Quincy market section. Holy smokes my eyes were burning. Of course it was an older lady driving the car.

Hey, honestly if I could and felt daring, I would paint my LS the Lamborghini yellow, but then I might get hailed for a ride every time I go through NYC.
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I dont matter what car that color is on, it is not nice at all


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