S8 (really A8) gold package, OPINIONS?

[Beatty, Robert]

Theron,

I think (HOPING FEVERISHLY) he was teasing you! :)

Rob

> Oh my god, that's the most wretched thing I've ever heard.  I think gold
> accents
> ruin a car.  I saw a V8 that I was thinking of buying, but it was all
> trimmed in
> gold, and looked like a cheesy Honda or Toyota (no offense, but they love
> the
> gold cheese).   Gold....EWE.  No offense, but sounds like a perfectly good
> A8 was
> destroyed.
> 
> BTW, if you need them weighted, they can put weights on the inside of the
> wheels
> you know.
> 
> 
> 
> "Horace K. Sawyer" wrote:
> 
> > >Gold wheels on an A8.....EWE
> > >
> >
> >         Gold wheels are the supreme ultimate, man!  I have to have gold
> on
> > everything.  Gold steering wheel, gold gearshifter, gold fuel cap door,
> > gold door handles, gold wiper blade arm (just one -- its a statement).
> I
> > want a gold grille.   The car has been repainted what I believe be an
> > unusual bright purple.  Photos:  $3.00 each.   (To help pay for the
> paint
> > job)  No one would ever know it had a salvage title!  I thought about
> > plating the driver's door, as a statement about my individualmyality.
> But
> > would that be too much?
> >         Anybody got a gold S8 grille?  Wonder if a junkyard might have
> it.  I
> > don't want to have to pay another $6,800 to get it plated like my 20"
> Avus
> > rims.  That was a bit pricey for plating wheels, even for me.  One
> problem:
> >  the tires shake pretty bad because I pulled the wheelweights off.  Lead
> > just don't go with no gold.  And if it don't go, it don't show.
> >
> > Horance