# Man gold-plates porsche. Cool? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810 "2008-07-09T07:48:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/21 "2008-07-09T17:34:18Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] I actually kind of like it. Did anybody actually think Deloreans were good looking cars? That thing should have “Norelco” on the hood. [/QUOTE] “Good looking”? I don’t know. Is Jack Bauer “good-looking”? Deloreans, like Jack Bauer, looked bad-ass **cool** in the eighties\*. I’m not sure “good” is the word for it. \*Deloreans in the '80’s, I mean, of course. Although [Kiefer looked pretty bad-ass in the eighties, too.](http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a306/greendaysidiot/kiefer-sutherland01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/22 "2008-07-09T17:46:49Z")
Yeah, that’s ugly. Almost as bad as the cotton-candy-pink Mustang I saw a couple of months ago. You do _not_ do that to a Mustang! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/23 "2008-07-09T18:14:37Z")
Wow. That is so ridiculously tasteless. It’s like walking round wearing a gold-plated coat studded with rubies and sapphires and emeralds. Pathetic waste of wealth and totally tastless at it, to boot. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/24 "2008-07-09T19:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] Almost as bad as the cotton-candy-pink Mustang I saw a couple of months ago. You do _not_ do that to a Mustang! [/QUOTE] It’s a secretary’s car. Why _not_? It’s what ye olde 1960s boss gives to the girl in the pool he’s boinking. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/25 "2008-07-09T19:39:02Z")
How about a [crystal-encrusted](http://fuksworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/swarovski-crystal-covered-mercedes-benz.html) [Mercedes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/diamondmercedes.asp#photo6)? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/26 "2008-07-09T19:41:31Z")
didn’t an indian maharajah have a solid silver Rolls-Royce? musta been a bitch to keep polished, though! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/27 "2008-07-09T19:42:24Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] How about a [crystal-encrusted](http://fuksworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/swarovski-crystal-covered-mercedes-benz.html) [Mercedes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/diamondmercedes.asp#photo6)? [/QUOTE] I love Mercedes and I love Swarovski, but the two together is rather hideous. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/28 "2008-07-09T21:47:03Z")
I like the idea of it. It is pretty ugly but at least its engagingly ugly. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/29 "2008-07-09T21:57:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] How about a [crystal-encrusted](http://fuksworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/swarovski-crystal-covered-mercedes-benz.html) [Mercedes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/diamondmercedes.asp#photo6)? [/QUOTE] Okay, yeah. **That’s** fugly. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/30 "2008-07-09T22:42:26Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Actually, yeah. Gold plating is one thing, but gold _bricking_? WTF? [/QUOTE] It looks to me that it’s not electroplated at all, but gilded, and the brick shapes are the individual pieces of gold leaf. Cheap and tacky, anybody with experience could have used the stuff properly, working it into a larger thinner layer which covers more area and avoids visible joins, and which would also lighter. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/31 "2008-07-09T22:49:39Z")
I think it’s something that doesn’t lend well to pictures. In real life, driving past you, it would be sorta interesting. Definitely not for spies, though. I bet that thing has the radar cross section of a battleship. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/32 "2008-07-09T23:43:10Z")
I liked Uday Hussien’s [gold-plated](http://www.ak-47.us/Gold_AK47.php) [AK47](http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/101001.jpg) better. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/33 "2008-07-09T23:51:38Z")
[QUOTE=Influential Panda] **Man gold-plates porsche. Cool?** [/QUOTE] Key. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/34 "2008-07-10T09:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Did anybody actually think Deloreans were good looking cars? That thing should have “Norelco” on the hood. [/QUOTE] DeLoreans were/are one of those cars that have quite nice proportions, even if the finer detailing isn’t up to scratch. Sort of how new Beemers look nice from a distance, but up close they just don’t match your expectations. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/35 "2008-07-10T18:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] It looks to me that it’s not electroplated at all, but gilded, and the brick shapes are the individual pieces of gold leaf. Cheap and tacky, anybody with experience could have used the stuff properly, working it into a larger thinner layer which covers more area and avoids visible joins, and which would also lighter. [/QUOTE] It looks too neat not to have been designed to look that way on purpose. Some of the “bricks” are different sizes, they all have little dots in the corners, and the spoiler has a swirly pattern instead of bricks. So someone was technically proficient, if severely lacking in taste. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/36 "2008-07-10T18:33:24Z")
I think it is very cool. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/37 "2008-07-10T18:48:11Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] It looks too neat not to have been designed to look that way on purpose. Some of the “bricks” are different sizes, they all have little dots in the corners, and the spoiler has a swirly pattern instead of bricks. So someone was technically proficient, if severely lacking in taste. [/QUOTE] Now I’ve looked a bit closer, yes, you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/38 "2008-07-10T18:55:51Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] The plating looks weird to me. I’d rather have a all-chrome car instead. [![](http://blog.monty.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/bmw_fullbodychrome.jpg) ](http://blog.monty.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/bmw_fullbodychrome.jpg) [/QUOTE] Oohhh, shiny! Though I’d hate to meet that car on a bright and sunny day. ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/39 "2008-07-10T19:37:55Z")
Someone’s watched “The Wizard of Oz” one too many times, methinks. I want to take decals of Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, and the Lion and stick them on there. EDIT: The all-chrome car, on the other hand…would be hell on a sunny day, but I do think that one’s rather cool-looking. Very shiny. Now I’m having an idea for a car with a mirrored surface. One giant actual mirror all over it. Wonder how that would look… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810/40 "2008-07-10T20:47:23Z")
Cool? no. Stupid? _YES!_ IMHO _ANY_ cosmetic mods are stupid, useless, and pointless, moreso if they’re done to a poor, defenseless sports car I’m a fan of the Sleeper concept, any and all mods should be _performance_ mods, underhood/suspension mods that improve the vehicle’s performance, keep the exterior as bone-stock appearing as possible [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-gold-plates-porsche-cool/455810.md?page=3)