In a message dated 4/7/2004 7:13:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU writes:

<< As a token woman, I don't like purplish maroon.  In fact, I don't like any
maroon.  Purple is excellent, but not on vanagons.  Yellow is better or
strong clear blues.  The burgundy on mine is boring boring boring.
Unfortunately I couldn't pick based on color. >>

Aha!! But were you a token woman back in 1988 when Burgundy was a very
popular car color?

Most of my women friends have seen the one Bordeaux colored van that I own.
Most have commented that it is much prettier than my blue, silver, white, gold,
two-tone brown, & bronze vans. Most popular comment? It's look so much more
like a "regular van". Maybe it's the silver painted cladding that they like. I
kinda like the cladding too. I hope that doesn't qualify me to be a token
woman.

BenT