> - had an even more god-awful color scheme.  My 85 is just brown and
> tan.   This 84 was orange
>  with an interior that was tan & brown with brown & striped blue
> pinstripe fabric.
>
> Now, I was just a child in the early 70s when my parent took their
> perfectly nice house (hardwood floors, etc) and put in wall to wall
> shag carpeting (bright orange).   They accessorized with green
> metallic couches, yellow counter tops, and avocado appliances.
> The 70s fashion psychosis still mystifies me.   To this day, I can't
> fathom whether these sorts of color schemes actually looked "good",
> or whether people chose them because they looked butt-ugly and that
> was cool, in and of itself.

> Anyone who can remember the early 70s
> care to comment?  What the f*** were you people thinking? :-)

Don't look now, but shag carpeting, bright colors, etc. are available again!
If you leave your original colors/finishes in place long enuf, they will
come back into style again!
Hell, pink has come & gone a couple of times since the 50's. Design trend
setters have only got so much new-never-been-seen-before ideas/colors, etc.
that they revert to rehashing old styles to make a new trend that makes your
existing suff obsolete, & thus force you to upgrade to keep up w/ the
Joneses. Can you say New Beetle, PT Cruiser?

Tom-thinking of brass plating all my vanagon hardware to give it a new
look-chrome is so retro.