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Subject:Re: '84 westy color was
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:52:13 -0700

I've never net anyone who didn't know what I was talking about when I called
it "baby shit" yellow.  Probably not the official name, though.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "(Donna Cassano)" <pokeswagon@blazenet.net>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: '84 westy color was

> 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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