2006-Aug-4 - Gold Plated Porsche
World First Gold Plated Porsche
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2006-Aug-6 - Gold Leaf, not Gold Plate. |
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Actually, this car is coated with gold LEAF, not gold plate. Gold leaf is no more than a few microns thick, and is relatively inexpensive. One booklet of 100 sheets of 3.5" x 3.5" gold leaf (24 carat) may cost no more than $60-$100 US.
There is a famous bank building - I forget which one - in the financial district of Toronto; the entire outside of the building is glass, and the inner surface of each window is covered with gold leaf. The builders discovered it was cheaper to coat the inside of every window with gold leaf, than to buy drapes for the whole building!
In the third picture above, a technician has applied approximately 25 sheets of gold leaf to the left front fender. Assuming it takes 100 sheets to coat the entire fender, and assuming one fender equals approximately 10% of the surface area of the car, it may have taken no more than $1000 to finish this car surface with gold leaf.
Mind you, that is one DELICATE surface to have on a car!
Mark Turner
Daegu, Korea
mturnerr@yahoo.ca |
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2006-Aug-6 - not a nice finish |
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The gold leaf is not that nicer finish, you can see all the merge lines.
They would have been far better of going with a gold pearl IMHO.... |
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2006-Aug-30 - Untitled Comment |
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| it had to be a boxster, the gayest prosche of them all |
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