Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:20:23 +0000
Reply-To: joe trussell <vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: joe trussell <vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tornado Red OR Metalic black?
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One thing I like about the bronze beige metallic/taupe is that it hides dirt
well--meaning it always looks slightly dirty whether it's clean or not!
These links should work:
http://josephtrussell.com/vanagonbfg.jpg
http://josephtrussell.com/vanagonbfg2.jpg
Joe T.
>From: Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
>To: VANAGON@GERRY.VANAGON.COM, Joseph Trussell
><vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Tornado Red OR Metalic black?
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:17:42 -0500
>
>Hi Joe, the links don't work???
>
>Why.... i did 3 vanagon last year:
>http://www.benplace.com/bjp_vendre.htm
>
>Vendre mean for sale, well, this page is in French only because van were
>for
>sale localy, all my "Restauration BJP" section is in french... all new
>section i do are both French and English, metric and imperial... and, you
>can imagine the time it take me to do all that, in a medium quality English
>and a worse French :-)
>
>Where was I, ho yea, color, well, like i said, one was what we call here
>"Taupe", your color, and, it's the only one of the 3 that came out of the
>paint shot that i didn't have a shock!!! it was still THAT color, sorry
>joe,
>but i don't like that color, but you know what, everybody does ?????
>
>Anyway, now that i have a frigging real SHOP with lately a good enough
>paint
>shop (we now paint in house...), i can do what ever dream van i have deap
>inside my head, and this one is mostly empty, my head!
>
>So here i am with a 85 in pretty good shape for the price i have paid, you
>don't want to know... i will put a lot of stuff on it and test also (before
>the Subi) a 2.1L of my own recipe. Now, BLACK is still in my head, but
>Sylvia, my girlfriend is now crasy about a red color, and she like the
>Tornado red, you need to understand that we work together a lot, and she is
>doing more body work that i do... let me tell you that she is somekind of a
>women, oufffffff, doing an MBA research at the same time!!! so, she as the
>final decision!!! and the only reason that i like the red is that all black
>trim will look nicer....
>
>BUT, this morning, someone told me about some orange color, like the new
>beetle one and a Golf GTI one.... men that could look nice also...
>
>I know have the tools and power do to whatever i want with a Van!!!
>
>This is so cool, it was my dream and it's working.... well, i'm not rich at
>all, FAR from that, i'm almost poor...(???) but happy!
>
>I love those frigging vans, i love to travel in those, sleep, have fun,
>meet
>peoples, destroy some for parts, fix them, repair, paint.... my 79 was my
>dream bus, i did it, now, i will built "Dream(s) Vanagon(S)".... he he
>he...
>one day, i will do a real shinny black, with the silver roof.... probably
>the next one..
>
>Cheers, Ben (in somekind of a small beak before my last customer
>van(engine,
>paint, roof and cavas))
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