<VV> drab colors, was: Evening Orchid Paint/Color

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Wha'da expect? Since anymore car companies only offer their interiors "in
any color you want, as long as it's black." Or other shades of mortuary
gray or dirt brown. Interior colors today are even more drab and depressing
than the outside colors. Or their outside styling, for that matter.

Personally, I've seen more life inside a funeral hearse. (Seriously though,
a friend bought a used one for transportation.) LOL

And don't EVEN get me started on the lack of headlight, grille, or
taillight styling. Those are mere scribed lines across a contoured body.
Fill in the joints, paint them over, and you'd lose them altogether. 

Modern cars are SOooooo boring...... Bill Mitchell is probably spinning in
his grave.

Corvairs, by contrast, are beautiful! "They had style, they had grace..." 

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: Harry Yarnell <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Evening Orchid Paint/Color
>
> Pontiac also offered Evening Orchid (paint code P) in '65, but they
called 
> it Iris Mist. No other GM division offered this color.
>  Ya know, they've taken some of the magic out of buying a new car these 
> days. Colors are no longer Evening Orchid, Tuxedo Black, Ermine white,
Roman 
> Red, or Tahitian Turquoise. Now it's Teal, med red metallic, white, etc. 
> Yuck...
> Obviously they fired the color guy. These old names conjour up grand
vistas, 
> fueling our car buying enthusiasm.
>
> Harry Yarnell
> Perryman Garage and Orphanage
> hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
>