It's Back! That Lamborghini Yellow Speedster

Ebay Item 2430707188

Isn't this that "carbon fiber, porsche factory reproduction, super-fly, 2 gallons of House of Colors Lamborghini Pearl Yellow" speedster that has been for sale about 5 times on ebay. I think at one time it was going for $45k(US)
-=theron
(Message Edited 9/3/2003 4:36:19 PM)

Can the "dream-cicle" orange gen-u-wine Porsche-built $45K Vintage Speedster be far behind? Say, I wonder if this guy knows the guy in TX with the "Porsche-framed" "Carerra"?

I guess the seller has never heard of "spell check." Nothing blows your credibility like bad spelling and lousy grammer, especially in a "print ad."

All kidding aside, this looks like a nicely done car, if you're into
school bus yellow. Considering if all claims in the ad are true, engine
size/power and options, low to mid 20's might not be a bad deal. What puzzles me is that in the top pic with the guy sitting in it, the wheels
are chrome mags with baby mQQns and the other pics have chrome stock wheels with crested hubcaps(?).

BD

Speaking of Yellow, I have been pondering what color to paint my flared project. I'm quite a ways from actually getting to paint, but it doesn't help to dream.

In the beginning I was thinking silver with red interior. Then it was black with red interior. Then I figured, it's a flared speedster, why not go with something that has some bang to it. Red is too typical, so I thought why not a deep yellow, with black interior, and low and behold, here is a yellow flared speedster on ebay.

But, what are the price differences on paint jobs? Is black a pretty typical "cheap" color and other things start to get more expensive? I seem to remember in some painting book I was reading that red is much more expensive than say silver.

Chris,
The paint jobs are not necesarily more expensive because of color. Yellow is transparent, and takes more coats to cover well. The pigments in red are more costly. The real costs are in the quality of preparation, and things like "how many clear coats" " color sanded, and rubbed out" "pearlescents", and other special effect paints. The actual colors may only be $10-30 difference per gallon for the color itself. Also Synthetic enamel paint jobs are cheapest, acrylic ( catalyzed enamel" are in the mid range. And full catalyzed urethanes generally cost the most. But like everything else with these beasts the phrase..."You get what you pay for" generally holds true.

Gary has it right on the money! The guy who painted mine stated that 2/3 the cost was prep work.

Jerome

The other 'cost' that factors into color selection is prep... BLACK shows every imperfection, so if you do a wavy-gravey bit of sanding it will be emphasized in the finished product.

As long as you're in the contemplative stages here's a color scheme I've been trying to sell to VSOP-Rick: He has Viper yellow on his widebody and it is sweet, just the right amount of mellow to compliment the flowing lines of the flaring, but still bright enough to yell, "Warning, Warning Will Robinson!"

So, anyway, the guy who did my stripe was real excited about these phantom colors that aren't completely bowling-ball metalflake, but they have some serious sparkle, plus they change colors and shades, much the way Henry is training GB's car to be silver/blue & purple...

So picture a pair of racing stripes in a deep blue that shifts to green and purple, now picture the stripes on acid... no seriously, instead of straight, have the stripes start out parralel and then maybe wander and wave a bit,or cross one another as they are traveling up the hood, or maybe ribbon-like out onto the rear fender flares...so they don't meet back up in the back but rather accentuate the car's hips!
YOWZA!
MM

I believe I bought the original fraud car from a guy in Tampa. He bought the car from Boys-Toyz or something like that, out of Canada. Anyway, the pics don't show, but that is FAR from school bus yellow. The pearl in the HOK yellow paint is really spectacular and absolutely a head turner. Mine has a 2180, AC, leather, etc. Had 650 miles on it when I picked it up.