<...has anyone ever seen any silver VWs that aren't all dull and faded? The
Pumpkin Orange is another distinctively VW Van color and their special
Westy yellow>

For years, silver, red, and black were 3 of the worst colors you could pick
for a new car. Unless you kept vehicles these colors garaged they would
fade quickly. Remember back in the 60's & 70's when black cars took a
purple-ish hue after a year or two? With paint tecnologies today all that
has pretty much changed. At least VW ( I don't think, anyway) didn't use
the "non-stick" paint that that Detriot and a few Japanese makes used in
the late 80's! I had an '87 Chevy van that the paint came off of in sheets.
Best part was you couldn't simply repaint it-the problem was the primer,
and you had to take it all down to bare metal in order to refinish it.

Jeff Stewart
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