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MaplewoodMarauder
05-02-2012, 10:45 PM
Hey everyone,

Hello everyone!

My name is Chad and for my 25th birthday (4/15/12), I treated myself to a favorite car of mine....an '03 Marauder in Dark Blue Pearl. I've liked Marauders since they were new (I remember seeing them at the Minneapolis Auto Show in '03 or '04 and thinking how awesome they were) and I started looking around this spring for one. I knew they made a LOT of them in black, but I knew there were other colors as well. I was searching the local auto trader for Marauders on Easter Sunday, and I found one was recently traded in at a local Honda dealer, so I emailed on it, and I was VERY surprised/happy to hear it was DARK BLUE (not even knowing yet how rare Dark Blue Pearl is) as opposed to the much more popular Black....AND it had the lighter leather interior AND heated seats! I was sold!

So I went out there on Monday, drove it (never drove a Marauder before), fell in love and agreed to trade my '00 Regal GS in on it. Completed the deal on Friday the 13th and had myself an awesome birthday present!

(It didn't occur to me until after I agreed to buy it that ONLY 328 DARK BLUE PEARL MARAUDERS WERE EVER MADE!!)


I LOVE this car, probably the favorite one I've ever owned (right up there with the '99 Mercedes Benz S320 I had for a couple of years) and am looking forward to putting many miles on it!!


Here's some pics!
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/Chadillac8705/The%20Marauder/IMG_8734.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/Chadillac8705/The%20Marauder/2012-04-17_10-35-40_546.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/Chadillac8705/The%20Marauder/2012-04-13_13-29-41_671-1.jpg


Looking forward to meeting you guys at different meets & shows, etc! :)

720sonic
05-03-2012, 02:23 AM
Awesome car. Also A big fan of marauder's and hope to own on some day. Did they only have the tan interior in the blue? Never seen tan interior on a marauder. Welcome

sonicx
05-03-2012, 05:54 AM
Welcome Aboard

MaplewoodMarauder
05-03-2012, 06:34 AM
Awesome car. Also A big fan of marauder's and hope to own on some day. Did they only have the tan interior in the blue? Never seen tan interior on a marauder. Welcome

No, they did offer the Light Flint (tan) interior on the other colors as well, but the black interior was far more common than the light flint interior.

N8's98GT
05-03-2012, 07:24 AM
Wow Chad, that's an awesome automobile you've got there :)

Welcome to club

DNeinstadt
05-03-2012, 08:50 AM
Welcome and nice vehicle! I had one myself for a few months. Not nearly as nice as yours!!
Dan

HAULNSS
05-03-2012, 11:11 AM
:drool: :drool:

Wow. Nice car and welcome to MNFE.:cool2:

Randy

thomasdale2144
05-03-2012, 01:54 PM
Welcome man can't wait to see the car in person, it looks really nice!

MaplewoodMarauder
05-04-2012, 02:03 PM
Thanks everyone!

Dazed1
05-09-2012, 06:27 AM
Beautiful ride...welcome!

zxtuner
05-09-2012, 08:11 AM
Nice looking ride. I've always love the Marauder

F8LBITE
05-09-2012, 08:23 AM
Nice! How many miles are on it?

And welcome to the site!

Stilz
05-09-2012, 01:51 PM
Welcome!

MadJack
05-10-2012, 01:32 AM
Nice! Cant wait to see it. Welcome :D

MaplewoodMarauder
05-10-2012, 06:11 AM
Nice! How many miles are on it?

When I drove it off the lot, it had 88,261 and now we're around 89,400.

Ox-y-GenIII
05-18-2012, 11:22 AM
Welcome. I too love the Marauders. I think they are far better than Crown Vics. Nice color and nice car.

SVT5LITER
07-12-2012, 02:04 PM
I believe from the sounds of it, this car was spotted at Walgreens on the Maplewood/St. Paul border the other day. My mom likes your car :lol:
Her and the chica were out and about shopping and stopped in there and I guess my mom came across a purrty blue Marauder and was asking the better half what that car was. She kind of knew what it was and came home to tell me how they ran across a blue Marauder and how my mom really liked it. I laughed and said I think I just read about this car as a matter of fact more recently :)

crouse
07-12-2012, 05:44 PM
Are you going to be at CarCraft? Would be nice to have another one there besides my black one.