Date:         Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:35:40 -0500
Reply-To:     Wil Haslup <whaslup@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Wil Haslup <whaslup@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon holiday party in DC MD area
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Joy Hecht wrote:
> Why rent?  Surely someone in the area has a house that isn't in the middle
> of being painted?

> And sorry, guys, you don't get a voice in the paint colors!  White, it will
> be.  Plain old pure white.

When I had a '69 Chevelle repainted in my twenties I did it in pure
white/refrigerator white and, man, it was white.  You had to shield your
eyes on sunny days but white makes little dings much less noticeable in
an older vehicle.

> Not clamshell white, not slightly sunny white,
> not any other variant of white.  Just white.  Not tornado red, either -
> though that was a different email thread!

(I've considered it for my VW but have been imagining shardes of reds
and yellows for so long I can't go that way myself.)

--

Wil