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Subject:Re: Official Paint Color Name
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:39:52 -0700

Dove Blue looks about right, or as well as I can judge on
http://www.gti16v.org/vwcslh5u.htm#vwcslh5u

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Hoping the spirit of John Wallace is with you, I remain

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR

On 8/18/2005 11:32 AM Clymer, David BLMS-Staff wrote:

>The color is either Wolfram Grey which is kind of a gunmetal grey color or
>Dove Blue which is a true blue grey.  Dove blue was very common on 85-89
>Vanagons.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Elliott [mailto:j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:24 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Official Paint Color Name
>
>My daughter and I spotted a later model Vanagon Westy that was a dark
>grayish blue. We discussed what this color might be called. She liked
>"slate gray," but I felt it was too blue for that. I told her that I
>could find out what VW called it. Now, before she gets home from school
>. . . can someone help me out with this so I can remain (in her eyes)
>all-knowing . . . and avoid becoming the doofus I know I really am?
>
>--
>Hoping the spirit of John Wallace is with you, I remain
>
>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>KG6RCR
>
>
>