Re: '85 4KSQ Color Options

[steve powers <spowers@spdg.COM>]

Frank sez:
>
> > Steve Powers mentions that his leather 4KSQ seat cover came from an           
> > Oceanic Blue '85 4KSQ.  Was the paint special ordered?  I thought the         
> > US-spec colors were limited to red, white, silver and dark gray.  Non-Q       
> > 4KSs had several additional choices.                                          
> 
> there was a type of blue available on the later 85 4kq's, but i have seen very  
> few of these.  i don't remember what it was called, either.                     
> let's see:                                                                      
> toronado red                                                                    
> alpine white                                                                    
> zermatt silver                                                                  
> graphite                                                                        
> (oceanic?) blue                                                                 
> any others?                                                                     

yup... bought the car in December '85. For only $700 more, I could have
bought
an '86. At the time I couldn't see that the third brake light was worth
$700.
However, the depreciation may have been. I preferred the color to the
red,
dark grey and white '86 4KCSQs that I saw. In all of the 10 years of
owning
that car, I only saw two others - only one of which had the leather
interior.

steve powers
spowers@spdg.com
powers@uplex.net