You know that feeling when you have a brand new car but have no idea what type of custom paint job you should get? Former White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez certainly does, but he conveniently took care of his problem by dipping into his $38 million in career earnings and getting a graffiti artist (Rene Turrek) to come up with a color-changing look.
The details from TMZ Sports:
We spoke to customizing god Alex Vega from The Auto Firm who tells us the whip was painted by graffiti artist Rene Turrek using thermochromic paint … meaning when the Jaguar is cold … it’s black … but when it warms up it morphs into a red, white, and blue masterpiece.
Money hasn’t spent this well since Jimmy Butler got himself a 6,000-pound fish tank boombox.
But seriously, the custom work is actually pretty neat — you can see the transformation in the video below:
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Jaguar in warm weather:
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If you’re worried about unemployed Alexei’s bank account taking such a big hit over paint, don’t. Some shortstop needy team will fork over a couple million just to see if he can revert back to his productive self.
