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Subject:Re: Best color to paint my GL - Group Results
From:craig cowan
Date:Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:58:38 -0500

I REALLY like seeing modern vw colors on older vw's. Particularly when it's
well done, and a common vw shade. I've seen a new beetle colored pastacio
paint on a vanagon and it looked slick!
However, Especially if your bus is already white, I say stay white! At the
very least, stick to a vanagon color. Remember it takes more than twice the
costs to do a full color change, properly. I mean, the engine even has to be
out! EVERYTHING needs to be removed (to do it "right"). If that's the case,
I LOVEEEEE Escalanda Green and slightly less so, Tornado Red. Those two
vanagon colors are the bee's knees. I think a green carat would ROCK!

-Craig

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:

> Mine, too.  BenT has a buddy up in SF who spent a small fortune on a
> somewhat more than off white paint job.  It looks very nice, but somehow it
> also looks "wrong", since it's not a factory color.  Ask BenT for details
> of
> the color.  I believe it was in one of the photos I took up at BenT's
> vanagon get together, the name of which I can never pull out of my brain.
>
> I didn't respond earlier, but any of the slightly less zoomy colors VW has
> painted the new beetle would look cool.  I think one of them is called
> "Vapor".
> |
> |BTW - my van is Pastel White.
> |
> |Peter Marsh
> |Naples
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