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Date:         Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:14:55 -0700
Reply-To:     bueses <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         bueses <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: 84 vs. 85 differences, swapping AC?
Comments: To: Michael Diehr <md03@XOCHI.COM>
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> - had an even more god-awful color scheme. My 85 is just brown and > tan. This 84 was orange > with an interior that was tan & brown with brown & striped blue > pinstripe fabric. > > Now, I was just a child in the early 70s when my parent took their > perfectly nice house (hardwood floors, etc) and put in wall to wall > shag carpeting (bright orange). They accessorized with green > metallic couches, yellow counter tops, and avocado appliances. > The 70s fashion psychosis still mystifies me. To this day, I can't > fathom whether these sorts of color schemes actually looked "good", > or whether people chose them because they looked butt-ugly and that > was cool, in and of itself.

> Anyone who can remember the early 70s > care to comment? What the f*** were you people thinking? :-)

Don't look now, but shag carpeting, bright colors, etc. are available again! If you leave your original colors/finishes in place long enuf, they will come back into style again! Hell, pink has come & gone a couple of times since the 50's. Design trend setters have only got so much new-never-been-seen-before ideas/colors, etc. that they revert to rehashing old styles to make a new trend that makes your existing suff obsolete, & thus force you to upgrade to keep up w/ the Joneses. Can you say New Beetle, PT Cruiser?

Tom-thinking of brass plating all my vanagon hardware to give it a new look-chrome is so retro.


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