Amazing find!

[RST]

Trans Am Mercury Red-White-Blue addition!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-Other-Br...=US_Cars_Trucks

[Xplantdad]

No way...located in Estonia, too! Can't believe it has the original rims... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

[427TJ]

Does it have the unobtanium valve stem caps?

[jannes_z-28]

Over here that paint scheme will certainly piss some people off :-)

[markinnaples]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jannes_z-28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Over here that paint scheme will certainly piss some people off :-) </div></div>

Why is that? Does Sweden hate America?

[njsteve]

Maybe we can ship it to Kim Jung Un in North Korea. He'd love it. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[jannes_z-28]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jannes_z-28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Over here that paint scheme will certainly piss some people off :-) </div></div>

Why is that? Does Sweden hate America? </div></div>

Well not all of us but we have a lot of anti-american socialist/communists car-haters and for them this one will be a sour thumb in their eyes :-)

And in Estonia they have a large Russian population and some of them are not so America-friendly.

[SeattleCarGuy]

I don't think that paint scheme will piss off many people in Estonia.

Estonians are very pro-American for the most part.

While like many in Europe, they at times tend to have a negative view of certain aspects of American life (rampant obesity, educational issues, etc.), many Estonians also very much embrace Americana. There is a large car show in Haapsalu, Estonia every summer which celebrates only American cars. It is often held in conjunction with a drag race weekend at an old Soviet military airstrip with exhibition drag cars brought in from Scandinavian countries. It is not surprising to see this car painted in such a flag motif as I have attended this car show at least half a dozen times and there are more American flags there than most of 4th of July gatherings you would see here. Just about every attendee is wearing American flag clothing. Even on a typical summer day in Tallinn, you might see a '60's era restored Cadillac or early Corvette out for a drive, though in a country of 1.3 million people, the numbers of American classics are sparse.

While I don't think much about this particular car, it is nice to see America celebrated in distant lands. And, I know a few things about Estonia in particular as I have been the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Estonia in Washington State for the past 8 years.

[resto4u]

gas monkey should buy it to sell to the aussie's.

[Paul_S]

Ah... Where else can you get a speedo like that? -one that goes to infinity. haha [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/laugh.gif[/img]

Good idea for G-Monkey if they could do a hands off deal.

Paul