Fw: <VV> Best top color for evening Orchic top

[J R Read_HML]

Must have hit REPLY instead of REPLY ALL

So, am sending back to VV as I did not intend the discussion to be private.

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Later, JR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patten Del R Civ AFRL Det 8/PKMA" <del.patten@kirtland.af.mil>
To: "'J R Read_HML'" <hmlinc@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: <VV> Best top color for evening Orchic top


>   One of the guys in CO has or had a early convertible red with a tan
> leather (real stuff) interior...custom job and a tan top... I loved that
> car... I guess if you go to the manufacturers, they'll make it any color
> they have not being limited by the "Stock Is" syndrome!!
>
>   Del Patten...CNM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of J R Read_HML
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:45 AM
> To: FrankCB@aol.com; alcorporon@sympatico.ca; virtualvairs@corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Best top color for evening Orchic top
>
>
> Thought we were done with THAT one.
>
> I still say TAN!
>
> The fellow who sold me my yellow convert (long gone), said he had a black
> top put on.  According to him ( in his opinion only), "it looks like the
top
> is down even when it is up if you have a black top".  I've got a good
buddy
> with a yellow '64 and a white top.  Did not like it at first, but got used
> to it and it looks just fine now.  Normally see it top down, anyway.
>
> My '96 Blazer was ordered by me.  Fire engine RED - (whatever they call
that
> color) - the bright red, not the dark one - with a TAN leather interior.
> They tried to talk me out of that when I placed the order - said the grey
> interior would be better.  When the car finally came in (trucker strike)
and
> I went to pick it up, I was complemented on my choice of color
combinations.
> Than tan went perfect with the red.  It will also look just great with the
> evening orchid.
>
> Oh, almost forgot.... In My Opinion.
>
> Attachments are scanned with anti-virus software.
>
> Later, JR
> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140
> '66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <FrankCB@aol.com>
> To: <alcorporon@sympatico.ca>; <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Best top color for evening Orchic top
>
>
> > In a message dated 7/17/04 12:26:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > alcorporon@sympatico.ca writes:
> >
> > > Hands down White top all the way, no arguments, case closed! that my
> honest
> > > opinion.
> > > But than again?????
> > >
> >
> >        Well, to me, a white top on an Evening Orchid car looks like
> something
> > the "boys" at "Queer Eye for a Straight Guy" would come up with.
> >        Not that there's anything wrong with that!!! as Jerry Seinfeld
> would
> > say.
> >        Frank "prefers black top" Burkhard
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