Santa brought me a little sumthin' sumthin' for Christmas. My one megapixel camera is too junior varsity to do it justice, but I am so giddy I had to post what I got. It's also a cloudy day here in Kansas City. Better pics to come.

'05 GT Legend Lime, 5 speed with Black stripes
20" Chip Foose Speedster rims with Nitto tires
Shaker 1000/IUP/tinted windows/parchament interior

 

NICE RIMS....................those look great. Congrats on your new toy!!




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Those rims are really nice! maybe a little too big for my taste but the design is fantastic. Do you have a pic from the front showing the stripes?

 

The wheels are a little big for my taste, but great car, congratulations

 

Congrats!

Jason

 

Looking sharp... are those stripes flat matte....looks sick. And the wheels are tight too, I think I am going to be staggering my diameters though 20s in back and 19s up front...for some reason that front fender well just makes the wheels look bigger than they are...somethings off, but I think it might be fixed with a slightly off set size. But looking good.

 

There's a thread going about how the WVB color "shifts" depending on the light conditions. Does the green do the same thing?

 

Congrats! Very nice car, i love the legend lime!!!
Would have choose different rims tho, never mind, just MO!

 

Isn't it great when you finally get to take delivery on your baby?

CONGRATS!!

Those rims aren't my cup of tea but I love the legend lime (ddefinitely coming around on that color) with the black stripes - sharp!!!

 

My daughter is begging me to go with the Legend Lime. I think I have just been convinced.

BTW, I like the rims. I do agree that the front rims look bigger than the back though.

 

A couple of points......the picture is definitely not entirely satisfactory...I am going to a parking lot where I can get better angles and better light (too many trees in area). The rims clearly look a bit big in the foto, however live in front of the car the impression is much improved (I think). I agree the front looks bigger than the rear in the foto...but that is only a function of the angle, and the small & cheap digital camera I have.

Someone asked about the paint under different lighting conditions. I would definitely say that makes a difference, though nowhere near the purple effect I have seen with some cars painted with metallic (irredescent) purple. In darker conditions the legend lime seems to get darker (better choice of words would be "flatter"-as a function of the light and metal in the paint). At night-time you'd swear it was silver. In bright sunlight the metallic aspect comes out in combination with more of a yellow hue. This seems to my eye of lightening up the car, and making it look its prettiest. Put another way, when I got it out of the showroom and onto the lot in sunshine, I fell in love twice as hard.

Went with the flat black stripes to pick up the flat finish on the grille and the plastic around the side mirrors. Glossy stripes seemed out of place with the rest of the car's trim. The flat is also a better combination with the tires which despite a dress coating are closer to flat that glossy.

P.S. In all the cars I have ever owned, I have always chosen black or silver. If someone had asked about green, I would have instantly thought "no way". Amazingly, when I saw this color GT, I flipped for it. I still look at it in the driveway, and am shocked I had my former perceptions about car colors changed so radically. I never thought it possible....but Ford came up with a huge winner for me in Legend Lime.

Hope that helps. More pics to come.

 

Looking sharp...congratulations! Now hustle off to the parking lot and get us more pictures!!

 

Yea I thought the same thing when I saw my friends LL Stang at night. I couldn't tell that it wasn't silver until he turned on the headlights even though he was parked right under a street light. I never did get to see it in daylight though but I'm sure it's even more fantastic

 

I agree, when I first say pics of Legend Lime I did not like it, but after seeing it at a dealership (still the only color I've seen up close, besides the Titanium at NAIAS '04) it was actually quite beautiful.

Think I may have gone with white stripes on it, but I think the flat black works very well, as you say matches the grill and the rest of the trim.

 

I wasnt so much refering to the way your wheels look in this photo as much as I was commenting on all 20s or bigger I have seen on other cars....the front wheelwell is smaller I think (at least it looks this way; I havent measured) than the back so the 20s fill it up much more than the back hus making the wheels appear larger than they are IMO. But 20s in the back seem to be meant for this car. I also like the idea of staggering the diameters front to back to give it an even more agressive muscle car look. And again great choice on the flat matte stripes.