I recently purchased a  86' Westy, it's that lovely BRONZE color, not
UPS brown, more of a metallic root-beer hue. With the bad shocks and
the Color it was only obvious, the perfect name for my van-  "FLOATER"

At least he German tourist I see in ar-vee Parks smile at my Westy.

Happy trails,
Peej

On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

>
> Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:45:08 -0700
> From:    monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
> Subject: Re: That VW Brown...
>
> my 84 gl is that color brown and i really like it - very stealthy
> indeed -
>
> as far as the reason for the decor of those giant ar-vees i would say
> it is a matter of weeding out them that dont belong - if you like the
> swoops you're in, if not, you're not.
>
> or perhaps its another reason entirely - maybe it just takes the ar-
> vee
> marketer longer to realize that the 80's are definitely over - they do
> sort of resemble swatch watches circa the "hold me now" thompson
> twins,
> dont you think?
>
>
> onward
>
> monte
>
>
> If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore
> it to
> him though I drown myself. - henry thoreau
>
> On 24 Apr 2007, , at 19:30, Don Hanson wrote:
>
>> "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

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