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Subject:Re: '84 westy color was
From:(Donna Cassano)
Date:Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:23:03 -0400

Anyone know what they call the pale yellow color of the '84s? A friend told me it
reminds him of 'Nilla moon pies. But the cop who gave me a ticket for running a
yellow light called it tan. !?! Maybe I ran a tan light. ?!? Hmmmph.....

Peace - donna
'84 Westy (Pepe)

Eric Giroux wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I think Juli is rather reffering to 'Assuan Brown', or 'Aswan Brown' (as
> spelled in ETKA).  Code L 0H8B01 (touch up stick) or L 0H8B03 (can).
> Available at the dealer, I just ordered them yesterday.
>
> Panama brown, merian brown, havana brown, agata brown are also listed in
> ETKA, but I don't know what they look like, or if '84 Westies were
> available in these shades of browns...
>
> �ric
> '84 Westy Aswan Brown (or Asswipe brown, as Chris once put it...)
>
> At 07:54 AM 11/08/00 -0400, pierre a. lachance wrote:
> >dear Juli
> >if you are talking about the same color that i am thinking of, it was called
> >by VW dealers " Panama brown" , and I always laughed when my girlfriend
> >Guylaine mentionned this colour ( she works at a VW dealer)...VW people
> >really have a different "whatever" or way to name their colors ??? They have
> >"desert wind ", canyon red, silver arrow, tornado red, cameo blue , stratos
> >blue.   these are colors for these years, but certain names were worst a few
> >years back! like the panama brown, etc etc...
> >pierre a. lachance
> >lac beauport, quebec
> >www.geocities.com/lachancepa/
> >
> >
> >Juli wrote:
> >   There must be a half a dozen rusty
> >> orangy brown (or whatever that color is called)
> >
> >> Juli
> >> '84 Westy "Horace"
> >>
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