Maybe I was getting a special deal :-).  Probably requested some special
features.  Don't remember all the details, at this distant time.

My alma mater had only recently switched to orange and white (well,
mid-sixties) upon becoming one more of the University of Texas schools,
having formerly sported the blue, red, and gray of the old Confederacy.
Of course, that became a political no-no, for good reasons.

David

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, george jannini wrote:

>>> n 1974 I needed a new vehicle.  I looked at a VW Camper, settled on
>>> orange and white, the colors of my alma mater.  Wife nixed the
>>> price, which was very close to what I quoted.  I bought a Corolla
>>> Liftback, paying just over $2500.  David
>   You haven't seen orange until you've seen two baywindows side by
> each that have been painted University  of Tennessee orange.  That is
> orange with a capital O.  Gobsmack Orange.
>
>   If a '72 cost 16 large, then it seems as if $23,000 for an '89 seems
> like a bargain, IMO.
>
> George/ATL
> '89 Westy
> '67 Kombi