Learn Me - "Murdered Out" Car Edition.

jstein77 said:

Indy-Guy said:

I've certainly been aware of cars with trim/wheels/windows etc. blacked out for quite a while. What's new to me is the terminology of this style as "Murdered Out".  My friends (who are also old) have always referred to them as "Blacked Out"

 

I call 'em Darth Vader mobiles.

Oddly enough, the term for a white car with black accents is "stormtrooper" or "stormtroopered" (The spelling of that pains me)

Murdered out with black primer, 

Does red primer get Redrumed out?

Maybe we can start a new trend?

(BTW that movie messed with me when I wad younger....)

Jumper K Balls (Trent) said:

Keith Tanner said:

So what do we call this trend from the 90s? Angeled out?

Well, I thought it was an old trend. But this apparently belongs to Lebron James, so it's back?

In the 80's I distinctly remember that monochrome trend being called "Euro look".  I was quite fond of it at the time...... and Erebuni catalogs.

 

 

I have since recovered 

 

 

Hold on! Are you telling me you wouldn’t kill for that Kamei kitted Rabbit? If that were available I’d still be all over it!

I had a Redrum 72 impala. Just kept adding more primer as the rust kept coming back. 

Now I kind of am wondering how a car would look in red oxide primer with a couple coats of clear. 

Indy-Guy said:

Someone on here was considering different styles for their car and described one option as being "murdered out".  What does this new lingo mean?

p.s. (Should I feel old and out of touch, or is this non-sense?)

Don’t worry; it was played out long before you heard it the first time.

_ said:

Don’t forget, slammed to the extremest extent, and largest baller wheels you can fit. Camber be damned. 

Nope, wrong trend. 

John Welsh said:

I can only guess that "murdered out" is dirived from the all black bird, the crow, and when in a group, known as a murder of crows. 

I laughed far too hard at this.

jstein77 said:

Indy-Guy said:

I've certainly been aware of cars with trim/wheels/windows etc. blacked out for quite a while. What's new to me is the terminology of this style as "Murdered Out".  My friends (who are also old) have always referred to them as "Blacked Out"

 

I call 'em Darth Vader mobiles.

A murdered car was a Rum Runner if you got pulled over with Cargo in the back you left it on the side of the road and the cops murdered it. No Chrome, no window glint.  Nobody inside.Flat black. A coffin

I thought the murdered out look had to be flat black. Gloss black was the euro look. 

In reply to Jumper K Balls (Trent) :

I don't miss the tacky body kits, but i do miss Kamei spoilers and air dams.

dean1484 said:

Now I kind of am wondering how a car would look in red oxide primer with a couple coats of clear. 

It would look like my old Land Rover, basically. 

Black cars are dull. And all-black cars are really dull. 

chandler said:

Jumper K Balls (Trent) said:

Keith Tanner said:

So what do we call this trend from the 90s? Angeled out?

Well, I thought it was an old trend. But this apparently belongs to Lebron James, so it's back?

In the 80's I distinctly remember that monochrome trend being called "Euro look".  I was quite fond of it at the time...... and Erebuni catalogs.

 

 

I have since recovered 

 

 

Hold on! Are you telling me you wouldn’t kill for that Kamei kitted Rabbit? If that were available I’d still be all over it!

Oh yeah I would!  Heck i still occassionally think building a clipper kitted car would be a good idea. 

jstein77 said:

Indy-Guy said:

I've certainly been aware of cars with trim/wheels/windows etc. blacked out for quite a while. What's new to me is the terminology of this style as "Murdered Out".  My friends (who are also old) have always referred to them as "Blacked Out"

 

I call 'em Darth Vader mobiles.

I call it ruined. 

Diggin' the white Rabbit! 

I also happened across this listing today... 

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/d/cincinnati-1992-vw-cabriolet/6926272902.html

Indy-Guy said:

Someone on here was considering different styles for their car and described one option as being "murdered out".  What does this new lingo mean?

p.s. (Should I feel old and out of touch, or is this non-sense?)

Now there's a term I haven't heard in a long time.  A long time.

Basically it means flat black all the things.

Indy-Guy said:

I've certainly been aware of cars with trim/wheels/windows etc. blacked out for quite a while. What's new to me is the terminology of this style as "Murdered Out".  My friends (who are also old) have always referred to them as "Blacked Out"

 

You hang out with a higher class of people, then.

I heard the term from someone who had an honest-to-"Bob" 8" diameter chain steering wheel in his Malibu.

Duke said:

Black cars are dull. And all-black cars are really dull. 

Chevy had it wrong.  Lord Vader got his car a decade earlier.

The heavy impaler was all black and menacing, but the Grand National got there first, and made the appropriate wheezing noises when angered.

(This image needs to be but into proper context:  Picture it: USA, 1986.  Mustangs and Camaros were having a power war where both barely made 200 horsepower.  Corvettes had a 5000rpm redline and a goofy 4 speed plus overdrive transmission.  No exotics were even close to making 300 horsepower.  Then Buick, of all manufacturers, sticks a huge Garrett T3 and an intercooler with its own dedicated crank-driven fan on a beefed up version of their V6, with the most sophisticated engine controls GM had in their arsenal, and puts it all in a blacked-out Regal, making it one of the quickest accelerating vehicles available.  Anywhere.)

Maybe in the flesh, but the Impala SS got the ad.

Appleseed said:

Maybe in the flesh, but the Impala SS got the ad.

I seem to recall a Vader reference in a Grand National article around a decade before that SS ad, but Google is failing me.  IIRC it was in Car & Driver... 

Rodan said:

Appleseed said:

Maybe in the flesh, but the Impala SS got the ad.

I seem to recall a Vader reference in a Grand National article around a decade before that SS ad, but Google is failing me.  IIRC it was in Car & Driver... 

Me too.  I'd like to say it was the GNX article.

May 1987 cover.

Can I go to bed now?

In reply to John Welsh :

Go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall.