AK56
Member
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2013
- Messages
- 14
- Location
- Anchorage Alaska/ Las Vegas NV
- My XLR/V(s)
- 06 XLR Blue Steel
And it is a color that nobody mentioned!
So in my quest for a XLR I drove from Vegas down to Precott AZ to look at a Neiman Marcus XLR. By the time I got there it was sold. Its been for sale for at least 2 weeks. Just my luck it sells the day I get there. So I head towards Phoenix to look at a black one thats been for sale for quite awhile. I decide to call the dealer a little ways out of Prescott to make sure its still there and sure enough it sold the day before to some dude in Kansas!
So Im pretty bummed and head back to Vegas. I heve been trying to coordinate a trip over to SoCal to look at Lola's Moms car. She is moving and the website was up and down so our PM's were hit and miss. I thought I would just head that direction the next day.
When I get back to Vegas I have a message from the guy in Vegas that has the Xenon Blue one. Come to find out it was only 8 blocks from my Vegas house!
But the pictures he sends dont look like Xenon Blue. Much lighter, and I didnt really care for it but thought I would go check it out anyway. At least I could finally drive one. When I pulled up I instantly liked it. The pics didnt do it justice.
So I call my wife in Alaska and we are talking it over and Im trying to describe the color to her. Due to an accident on the highway she is stuck in traffic. All of a sudden she freaks out and says an XLR just pulled up next to her. She takes a pic and texts it to me and sure enough its the exact Blue Steel color of the one I was loking at. It must have been the same one I first saw years ago in Anchorage but I thought it was the Neiman Marcus purple.
From what I can see there were 490 Blue Steel XLR's made in 05-06. What are the odds of one showing up when and where it did in Anchorage Alaska!!
So we took that as a sign and I bought a 2006 Blue Steel XLR with 52K miles for $22.5k. It seems to be an awesome car so far. Everything checks out. Its a blast to drive. I love it. I do need to learn to give myself more time when running erands as I spend a lot of time in the parking lots explainig the car to people passing by. Its really cool to drive a car that most people have never seen.
Corsa Exhaust is on order, next is the V sway bar.
I want to Thank everybody for this great forum. It was great to have this resource to learn from before I even looked at any cars. I knew what to look for and what questions to ask. Very comforting.
So in my quest for a XLR I drove from Vegas down to Precott AZ to look at a Neiman Marcus XLR. By the time I got there it was sold. Its been for sale for at least 2 weeks. Just my luck it sells the day I get there. So I head towards Phoenix to look at a black one thats been for sale for quite awhile. I decide to call the dealer a little ways out of Prescott to make sure its still there and sure enough it sold the day before to some dude in Kansas!
So Im pretty bummed and head back to Vegas. I heve been trying to coordinate a trip over to SoCal to look at Lola's Moms car. She is moving and the website was up and down so our PM's were hit and miss. I thought I would just head that direction the next day.
When I get back to Vegas I have a message from the guy in Vegas that has the Xenon Blue one. Come to find out it was only 8 blocks from my Vegas house!
But the pictures he sends dont look like Xenon Blue. Much lighter, and I didnt really care for it but thought I would go check it out anyway. At least I could finally drive one. When I pulled up I instantly liked it. The pics didnt do it justice.
So I call my wife in Alaska and we are talking it over and Im trying to describe the color to her. Due to an accident on the highway she is stuck in traffic. All of a sudden she freaks out and says an XLR just pulled up next to her. She takes a pic and texts it to me and sure enough its the exact Blue Steel color of the one I was loking at. It must have been the same one I first saw years ago in Anchorage but I thought it was the Neiman Marcus purple.
From what I can see there were 490 Blue Steel XLR's made in 05-06. What are the odds of one showing up when and where it did in Anchorage Alaska!!
So we took that as a sign and I bought a 2006 Blue Steel XLR with 52K miles for $22.5k. It seems to be an awesome car so far. Everything checks out. Its a blast to drive. I love it. I do need to learn to give myself more time when running erands as I spend a lot of time in the parking lots explainig the car to people passing by. Its really cool to drive a car that most people have never seen.
Corsa Exhaust is on order, next is the V sway bar.
I want to Thank everybody for this great forum. It was great to have this resource to learn from before I even looked at any cars. I knew what to look for and what questions to ask. Very comforting.
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), & you have started with what have been the best two upgrades for me - Corsa & sway bar. 
--- I didn't quite go through all the effort you did to find my XLR, but spent a long time searching. I hope I won't seem to be too much of an 'interloper' here as I am also a bit of a 'newbie'; so "Welcome". This is a great XLR Site with dedicated people who love these cars. Justifiably so. 
