Jeremy Sanford shot this live action footage of the one known example of a 3D 76 Ball in the new red and blue color scheme. ConocoPhillips is tearing down all the classic orange balls; why did they erect one red ball in Sacramento?

For weeks, I'd heard the rumors: somewhere down in Malibu there was a 76 ball at a closed gas station, trussed up in black plastic like some ultrakinky egg. Nathan even claimed to have seen it, though naturally he didn't have his camera that day.

Then Christopher and Claudia Nygard passed through town on their way to Oregon, and darned if they didn't snap a cameraphone pic while passing the strange black orb. Behold, the oddest 76 Ball in all L.A.!