<...has anyone ever seen any silver VWs that aren't all dull and faded? The Pumpkin Orange is another distinctively VW Van color and their special Westy yellow>
For years, silver, red, and black were 3 of the worst colors you could pick for a new car. Unless you kept vehicles these colors garaged they would fade quickly. Remember back in the 60's & 70's when black cars took a purple-ish hue after a year or two? With paint tecnologies today all that has pretty much changed. At least VW ( I don't think, anyway) didn't use the "non-stick" paint that that Detriot and a few Japanese makes used in the late 80's! I had an '87 Chevy van that the paint came off of in sheets. Best part was you couldn't simply repaint it-the problem was the primer, and you had to take it all down to bare metal in order to refinish it. Jeff Stewart fonman4277@earthlink.net http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vwcampersmidatlantic/ http://home.earthlink.net/~fonman4277/vanagon%5b1%5d?200712 |
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