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Subject:Re: question: '76 or '77, possible purchase, what to look for
From:Richard Alexand Palmer
Date:Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:51:52 -0500

> The color scheme you describe (beige outside with green/brown plaid
> inside) was not a VW combination (neither were the hand-painted
> swirly designs).  If there is green in the plaid, this bus was once
> either chrome yellow (school bus colored) or tiaga green (green-M&M
> colored).  The color of the paint inside the engine compartment or
> in the interior will probably clue you in.
I must disagree with this. I have seen at least 2 '78 Westfalias that had light
beige paint, and an interior plaid of fine green and brown '70's glory.
Just another useless fact, I know...

-- 
Poor Richard

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 and the other half explaining to Deadheads why I'm a Christian."

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