CharlieDelta wanted to see Ryan's car with some weaponry attached. Actually the Z4 is a staff car. Here's the story about the dry heave green color from Ryan.
Ever since her college days, Sherry had wanted to drive a car dressed in "British Racing Green". When we were "designing" our roadster at the dealership, "Urban Green" was the only green available for the Z4. Completely ignoring the fact that at two huge dealerships, one in San Mateo, California and one in Columbia, SC, there was no evidence of dealer interest in stocking an "Urban Green" floor model, we decided the color based on a catalog color chip. Sherry thought the chip color was close to what she remembered as "British Racing Green" and I told myself that as long as I had my "performance driving" toy, the color was of no consequence.
Hence, the dry heave green.
Wrong! Our first view of the car at the Spartanburg BMW Performance Center where we took delivery was somewhat.....strained! In fact, so was our second and third. Had we really selected this color? Well..yeah!It took us about 6 months to decide we weren't going to re-paint the damn thing. Accommodating ourselves to our impulsive decision was influenced in large part by the reactions we routinely got from complete strangers. They stop to comment or ask about the color. Reaction is always strong, either positive; "Great color!" or polite incredulity; "That's....interesting! What color is that?"
As I said the first time I saw their car, "Look, it's dry heave green." By the way, in the poll my neat blue color is leading by a margin of 2 to 1. I'm sure Ryan and Sherry are voting as often as they can.
The 'military" green has prompted so many conversations about the color and the car that we have come to enjoy the attention. Add the fact that, although "Urban green" was a production color, only 3 0 were ordered worldwide, an we have "backed" into a ownership of a very exclusive limited production car.Of course, former Edsel owners could probably say the same thing, but there it is. Its our "Mean Green Machine" and we are sticking with it. Underneath the paint, it's all BMW performance.
Oh hell yeah!!! That thing looks bitchen! I still say it needs a mini gun mounted somewhere on there for the passenger. Thanks Denny and Ryan...
Posted by: CharlieDelta on May 22, 2008 07:21 PMMust be something wrong with me. I like that color!
hey!!!!! I had an Edsel!
Posted by: johndeerebilly on May 22, 2008 07:40 PMQuite possibly the ugliest color I've seen on a car. Not trolling. Just speaking the truth. Only thing uglier was my 1983 "Reliant" (much laughter) lemon yellow station wagon.
Posted by: Becs on May 22, 2008 08:38 PMGreen Power.....
Actually I like the color myself......I had a 74 Bronco of about the same color with racing stripes on the hood, light bar, winch,swing away tire carrier & co-ordinated carpeting.
I never saw another like it, but its rarity did nothing to change the fact it rusted to hell & back like all the other Broncos did.
I had a door fall off & had to weld the hinges back on to a reconstructed door post .....the ability to check tire wear by looking through the holes in the floor was not much of an advantage on rainy days either.
Actually I beat the living BeJesus out of that vehicle......but the color was awesome.
Posted by: Dudley1 on May 22, 2008 09:12 PMI had a 59 bug eye Sprite that was that color (or close). My dad called it gang green.
Loved that gutless little car.
I like the Blue better, but after 21 in the fun, I have a love for OD green. I still miss my pickle suit that went the way of the sane California voter (was there ever such a thing?). Hated the BDUs until they came out with the ACUs. Needs an XM307 or Mk19 for the passenger though.
Posted by: Jeremy on May 22, 2008 11:44 PMI tried to vote many times for that colour but the poll accepted only one vote from the same computer. Blue is my favourite colour but not for a car. This green gives me a sense of security.
Posted by: Claudia on May 22, 2008 11:50 PMI had a '69 Ford Galaxy that I purchased in Oct '68... The small town dealer didn't have some extras I wanted... so it too was ordered off a paint chip.... and looked exactly the same.. My unhappiness knew no bounds..
But since we were transferred to Chicago a few months later I soon discovered that you couldn't tell your car's color for six to seven months out of the year, anyway..
Posted by: Poker Player on May 23, 2008 01:57 AMMan that's a color that only a Mother could love. You should have gotten some numbers to put "Queenie's" phone number on the side of the front fender.
Posted by: Mark on May 23, 2008 09:56 AMThe wheel need to be color matched.
It needs some nose art, like the WWII bombers, lots of nice boobage pictures to choose from.
The single big star was a USA tail mark, but you need 5 small rank insignia stars for the driver.
Posted by: Jim Macklin on May 23, 2008 01:02 PMlock and load
Posted by: vetfromhell on May 23, 2008 03:50 PM