Someone needs to do their G in this finish... apparently its a car in Abu Dhabi... I thought it was chrome plated - I checked into a process that can plate the entire car (I wanted to do black chrome) - but it's $25K

$25K is pennies compared to this car... it's supposedly white gold

hope it's not a re-post

It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi
oil billionaire (naturally).

Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo
with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque
0-100km/h in less than 2secs, 1/4 mile in 6.89 secs
running on biofuel.

That is NOT stainless steel, people; it is WHITE GOLD!

 

wow is right!

 

Oil money workin to the max!

 

Man, finger prints would drive me nutz. And you know people are gonna wanna touch it.

 

LOL..now we know why our gas is so expensive.

 

white gold plated? holy crap.

 

so sik, bet CA would ban the car somehow

 

Truly Bling Bling.

 

Thats EXACTLY what the email that my Aunt forwarded with these pics said!

 

I never saw that car when I have been there. I have seen some sick ones tho. I can imagine driving that in the sun would be ridiculous.

 

Actually, there is a custom paint that does the finish in chrome like that, and it's gotten lots cheaper recently. In fact at SEMA this year they were showing off the process and had a T-Bucket hot rod done in blue chrome. It would actually look hot on a show car G in something like black or red chrome.

 

wow!
having money must be nice

 

The mother of all ballas...

 

On the plus side, I bet it keeps the in car temperature down and if you ever get lost and stranded the rescue plane should be able to spot you in the day time from miles away.

 

there are a lot of "chrome-like" paints out there now... but paint is not plating... the car above is actual gold plated... I'm pretty sure it uses the same process that I mentioned that costs 25K (for chrome)... there are only a handful of the machines that do it here... the closest to me is in Valencia...

They strip the car down entirely (inside & out) and put it on a giant rotisserie then apply the process... MTV Pimp My Ride had a car that had part of the front end done in flames with this process... most ppl only do a portion of the car (pieces that can be removed and easily plated)... the rotisserie thing is what gets expensive.

My tattoo artist air brushed some engine bay pieces for and I was talking with him about body color and how I wanted to do black chrome (paint)... he told me about a specialty shop that has all kinds of crazy stuff, and they turned me onto the guy that does the chrome plating (they sold him the equipment)...

If anyone is interested in the contact info, I'll look it up. But I doubt anyone here will do this... ya never know I guess