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Re: Color choices for LBC's

To: gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu
Subject: Re: Color choices for LBC's
From: mburdick@unmc.edu (Mike Burdick)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 15:25:10 CST
   > "Well, it is as close as I could get to a factory color I liked." In the
   > most condescending tone imaginable, he said, "I have owned my bugeye for
   > 30 years, and I remember all the colors.  The only green ever was BRG." He
   > is wrong, of course.  BRG was used for only a short time on bugeyes, after
   > which the only green was Leaf Green.  (Have you ever noticed that the

Wasn't the Bug Eye featured in British Car a couple of issues back this
color?  They said it was the nicest, most original Sprite in existance
citing the owners incredible attention to detail and zest for
originality.  It was a very nice looking car, in the pictures anyway.

   > shelves, then maybe you should rethink the color.  I can detect guards red 
a
   > mile away, and I am pretty sure it isn't original.  

In Participant's Choice type shows, it seems that a red car will invariably
win over a non-red car of equal or slightly better quality.  Red certainly
attracts attention!

Mike
mburdick@unmc.edu
(my future project TR4 was originally red....)



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