Mustang,
Well, let's start with the "Rattler-in-a-Ball" concept. I've got two zoos near me (ask my wife and she'll say it's THREE)
but I might get a deal. Anyway, I'd like to try for a cobra-in-a-ball. If I make two, I'll send ya one! If I make three and sell one for a nifty profit AND suddenly cobras start getting sick in zoos all over the country, you will, I hope, deny ever having communicated w/ me, right?
The strange (I admit) color that I suggested to Ron Butler (who is selling me a cobra with a bluish-pearl-gray interior (!) was........is.........(drum-roll, please)..........EGGPLANT!!! (Cue the Monty Python "stark danger" music)...The best way to convey it to you is that it really is (no kiddin') based on a real eggplant!
About three or four years ago Chrysler had a color called "Midnight Plum" (I think)---add a pearl black..and away we go! Cadillac has a deep crimson, and black and blue and maybe that will work? If you get any leads or (better) ideas, on this let me know. Two years ago, at Pebble Beach, I saw a Talbot Lago with a deep "midnight purple"--that was real close to eggplant---it also made for the sexiest car ever made by mankind. The present-day "Talbo" (note spelling) turnkey attempts to emulate the Talbot's "look"---not to badly, either. There is a yellow and black Talbot (real) at Peterson's "Million Dollar Car" exhibit right now. Bring the heart-meds!!!
Thanks for your interest. I'll contact you again when I corner the color better. Watch the news for "mysteriously-dying zoo cobras"---hoo hah!
Chow,