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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 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!

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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 07:54 AM
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Excellent theft-prevention

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

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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 07:55 AM
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Retired taxi/limo?
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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 08:16 AM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 08:25 AM
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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
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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 09:37 AM
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Theft prevention - indeed...bet the color looked better on the chip.
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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 09:44 AM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 09:44 AM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 10:13 AM
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what. the. f***.
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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 12:27 PM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 12:39 PM
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oh wow, why....
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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 05:36 PM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 06:46 PM
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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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Old Jun 15, 2011 | 07:55 PM
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I dont matter what car that color is on, it is not nice at all
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