Aztec Gold Car Number 5 out of 15 Made! :

In 1998 GM experimented with a high metallic paint “Aztec Gold Metallic” for the 50th Anniversary in 2003. GM first took 5 cars and painted them. Then Will Cooksey and his team noticed that in certain light and angles the car looks like a different color from neighboring body panel. Then Corvette took 5 more cars and some advice from DuPont and tried again. With the same results Will Cooksey had an expert from DuPont fly out and try again with 5 more. The first series was painted on 10/22/1997. The second series was painted on 11/17/1997. The final five were completed on 11/26/1997. The paint results on all 15 corvettes were the same. All the body panels where removed from the cars and inspected.


Then panel-by-panel each corvette was hand assembled with the panels that closely matched. It is said that no 2 Aztec Gold corvettes look the same, but if you where not looking for the differences you would never see it. GM has a high standard for consistency, so the project was cancelled for “Aztec Gold”. All 15 prototypes cars were shipped to the GM Tech Center in Warren Michigan. There was a private auction only open to GM Executives and limited number of dealers. 3 Convertibles where made, 12 where coupes for a total of 15.

gold car pictures

Car full covered with gold

Wow! A Porsche covered with gold, this is something we don’t see often on the road. A rumor says that many pounds of pure gold were used to cover the whole car, but it seems that gold leaves were used instead. Gold leaves are much less expensive, so it did not cost that much for that Russian man to have his golden car. But still, the results are very impressive!

A Porsche covered with gold

car covered with gold side pose

Car covered with gold front side

Car covered with gold back side

Car full covered with gold