"Turd-brown" someone called it..That is a distinctive 80s VW color, isn't it?  My 84 is that color and I am growing to really like it. 
 One day this spring when I had my Vanagon down in the desert (doing some medical tourisim to Mexico) I rode my bicycle up the Montezuma Grade west of Borrego Springs..From the mid-grade overlook, you can see for miles and miles. I could see every motorhome out on the desert, but not my 'stealth tur* brown' vanagon.  Why do they make all those motorhomes really white with all those dorky "swoops" of color all over em?  I mean, the VW vanagon might look like a shoebox, but those big motorhomes, they look like giant Nike running shoes with all those swoopies all over em...
  The only change I might consider now in the color of my van might be to re-do a very light roof color (no poptop on mine) to help deflect the sun's heat from the interior. 
 Or, maybe I, too,  should do some Swoops and Ribbons and Arrows and crap, perhaps airbrush some animals on the back...Maybe a pride(?) of  Shrews or Voles  would fit on my smaller tailgait..or a Lemming..I know, a really nice rendering of a cockroach...!  Cool!..
  Ever overnight at an RV park with your van?  You kinda get looked at like a cochroach sometimes, don'tcha?
  Don Hanson