~The deal went down!~

[swamprb]

Set the scene:

I get an e-mail from @SmokenJoe  on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend with a link for a $60 Red SS Performer. I'm loaded up to help my teammate cook for a Baseball Tournament Fundraiser Saturday morning and there is no way I'm going to be able to get to it. The craigslist post stated it was a one day sale from 9-4 with "no early birds". Kind of a downer!

Wake up Saturday and my buddy Mark texts me and is already setup and smoking (nervous energy!), so I find out the address is on my way to the Tournament and I swing by @ 8:15AM and I can see the Performer from the road with a couple guys huddled around it (DAMN Early Birds!). It is a junkyard lot with a couple storage buildings on the property and a few 1-800-GOT-JUNK trucks parked outside.

I get up to the grill and it turns out the guys around it were looking at bicycles, and I just bulldoze my way through and drag it near my SUV. The lady in charge of the sale came up and I shot her a lowball, but she had a list of items from the CL ad and stuck firm. I load it up and off I go to to the ball fields.

Didn't think much of it, it sat in the car overnight, rainy overcast weekend, but it looked darker than my Redheads, and it sat next to my comp trailer (Maroon BTW) until Monday, and I'm really not getting the picture - its not a Redhead!!







Fast forward Friday -  4th of July weekend:

Larry makes the trip North to visit the family-we hook up and @SmokenJoe is in possession of his next Weber project!!



@Craig has "every kettle has a story" in his signature - Larry can finish the rest of this story!

[Maxmbob]

That's a great color.

[captjoe06]

Congratulations!!! Victory!!!!!
She's gonna clean up real nice!

[Travis]

Great story! Congrats @SmokenJoe and thank you @swamprb for agenting it! What color is it called?

[Craig]

Congratulations and great story ! Love seeing the teamwork!

[WNC]

Nice work guys!
It seems like it's kind of a plumb, but not quite...
Still a great looking grill

[weldboy]

Good lookin grill. Congrats!


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[swamprb]

I'm sticking with Maroon!

http://colors.findthedata.com/compare/705-942/Burgundy-vs-Maroon-HTML-CSS

[SmokenJoe]

First of all  ...  many many thanks to Swamp'rB (alias @swamprb) for his exceptional assistance with this pickup.  Without his exceptional help this EO-code would be SOMEWHERE else    To add to the "story":  I originally spotted that SSP on CL and thought, for that price I could afford to just buy it to take to the rifle range for the use of the Range Masters.  That's when we ALL thought it was just a red .  After B picked up that baby and sent me pics, it dawned on me that I now own two SSP's; one is an O-code 'grey' and (now) and one is an EO-code 'plum'.  At least, as I recall, weber called that color 'plum' (@Craig)   I guess I'm still looking for some color more usual than grey or plum for the RM's. 

PS  Got a treat in checking out some of B's cooking gear, you name it he's got it and a great back yard to cook in.  Even met his better half  ...  I think she was kind of happy to hear YAK (Yet Another Kettle) was going to Eugene.

I'm still cleaning up the grey, so pics will follow when these two SSP's are ready to be respected.
SJ

[addicted-to-smoke]

Yep, it's maroon, or burgundy like the one @BMitch sold to my sister. Hard to find.

[BMitch]

The more I realize how rare the burgundy SSP's are the more I regret selling it!

[captjoe06]

@SmokenJoe
I'm thinking it's a brick red like my performer, no?-

[Scott Zee]

I have an EO the same color....I'm going with Maroon or Burgundy. Vent picture is the actual color not in direct sunlight. Here's a link
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/redhead-18538/30/

[RottiGuy]

Looks great!!! Nice color.

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[SmokenJoe]

@captjoe06  Hey, very nice looking Performer.

The Plum color is a funky somewhat limited color on Weber kettles in my neck-of-the-woods.   It's more a purpleish maroonish burgundy (Weber Marketing must have come up with Plum terminology ).  I've seen early reds, reds, red fades, and brick reds but none of them look real close to the plum (I'm thinking it's hard to get a digital phone camera in existing light with wonky skies to capture a true color image).  I don't know when Weber stopped making the color  ...  that info is probably in one of the "Statesmen's" head.

Your rig looks like a newer (much newer) Perf frame.  As I recall, they made some brick reds during that period.

SJ