Re: Paint

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne <Phil@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
To: jim_haseltine@email.msn.com <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 25 January 1998 05:33
Subject: Paint


>Roger and I had done the 'three meetings in an evening' stunt the week
>before, and both the start and end are in agricultural areas.  The
>sides were pretty well sprayed, and some of it was mud.
I know that you are into 'stealth' in a big way, but you obviously took it
too far this time - the Metro driver couldn't distinguish you from the
surrounding landscape :-).


>I'm really not sure what colour it is.  The documents say "Midnight Blue
>Metallic" - on a moonless night, perhaps.  Most people agree with you
>and think it's black - but the bodyshop's estimate says it's grey.
Didn't somebody once say "In the night, all cats are black"?
Maybe both Audi and the bodyshop subscribe to the theory that as black is a
total absence of colour then there is no such colour as black, so they have
to refer to it some other way. All I can say is that its the weirdest shade
of blue that I've ever seen and if hair turned that shade of grey 'Just For
Men' would never sell another bottle.


Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro