LinkSome moron with more money than taste has added almost 40 lbs of gold to his 911 convertible. So now it's 50 pounds heavier, and 50% less cool
Nice gauge.Blehm98 wrote:
you can bite it
Last edited by Cheez (2008-07-29 21:09:43)
Until you strip the gold off, take it to a car shop to be painted, and sell it.csmag wrote:
It's gonna get carjacked...yeah right. Who in their right mind would carjack a golden 911. I mean, how many gold plated 911s are there? They'd be caught in a heartbeat.
Thats how they used to test if gold coins were really gold back in the day.Cheez wrote:
Nice gauge.Blehm98 wrote:
you can bite it
I've never thought to measure metal by biteability.
1. Steal Carcsmag wrote:
It's gonna get carjacked...yeah right. Who in their right mind would carjack a golden 911. I mean, how many gold plated 911s are there? They'd be caught in a heartbeat.
It's possible but I doubt the owner would be dumb enough to let that happen.Roger Lesboules wrote:
1. Steal Carcsmag wrote:
It's gonna get carjacked...yeah right. Who in their right mind would carjack a golden 911. I mean, how many gold plated 911s are there? They'd be caught in a heartbeat.
2. Strip the gold away
3. Sell gold
4. Leave stripped down car in a street
5. ???
6. Profit!
well most owners of stolen cars dont just "let that happen."csmag wrote:
It's possible but I doubt the owner would be dumb enough to let that happen.Roger Lesboules wrote:
1. Steal Carcsmag wrote:
It's gonna get carjacked...yeah right. Who in their right mind would carjack a golden 911. I mean, how many gold plated 911s are there? They'd be caught in a heartbeat.
2. Strip the gold away
3. Sell gold
4. Leave stripped down car in a street
5. ???
6. Profit!
$40 000 actually. I think 1 oz = $50.Blehm98 wrote:
50 lbs of gold?
what is that...
32000?
lol
not to mention if someone even looks at his car too hard it'll get damaged, gold is so soft you can bite it for goodness sake...
if you were a criminal, would you stop to think if the car was actually covered in gold or not{KHI}Cerberus wrote:
What a shitty paint job, and what an even more retarded way of trying to liberate it... lets look at the real world facts...
gold is measured in troy ounces (1 troy oz = 1.09 oz)
there are 14.58 troy ounces in 1 (non troy) pound...
gold at BEST runs for 950.00 US *per* troy ounce.
so, 50LB comes to 729 troy ounces of gold, which at the *best* price of 950.00US would have cost him 629,550.00 US.
Again, krylon FTW.... looks like shit, the spoiler design is neat though.
and lets not forget what gold looks like once it oxidizes... which would make that entire attempt at coolness a waste even if he did drop over half a mil on the plating, that is without the proper amount of nickel alloyed into it, which in order to make the stuff not flake off, would have to be very low, and leaving it with a fingernail-removable thin plate.
YAY! science and common sense FTW!
Before you ask, I extract gold, platinum, nickel, copper, brass, etc from electronics and in turn make those metals into ingots to be sold for a living... no, this analysis is not based off of a whim.
Yeah I would, no criminal would risk being busted in this steaming glop of cat puke...cowami wrote:
if you were a criminal, would you stop to think if the car was actually covered in gold or not{KHI}Cerberus wrote:
What a shitty paint job, and what an even more retarded way of trying to liberate it... lets look at the real world facts...
gold is measured in troy ounces (1 troy oz = 1.09 oz)
there are 14.58 troy ounces in 1 (non troy) pound...
gold at BEST runs for 950.00 US *per* troy ounce.
so, 50LB comes to 729 troy ounces of gold, which at the *best* price of 950.00US would have cost him 629,550.00 US.
Again, krylon FTW.... looks like shit, the spoiler design is neat though.
and lets not forget what gold looks like once it oxidizes... which would make that entire attempt at coolness a waste even if he did drop over half a mil on the plating, that is without the proper amount of nickel alloyed into it, which in order to make the stuff not flake off, would have to be very low, and leaving it with a fingernail-removable thin plate.
YAY! science and common sense FTW!
Before you ask, I extract gold, platinum, nickel, copper, brass, etc from electronics and in turn make those metals into ingots to be sold for a living... no, this analysis is not based off of a whim.