Re: '83 urquattro colors

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

frankbauer@thevine.net wrote:

>when i bought my graphite metallic 4kq in 85, a guy i worked with had a
>"black metallic" 84 4kq.
>sitting side-by-side in the sunlight, his was obviously a brownish-tinged
>black metallic while mine was just as obviously a grey-tinged black
>metallic.
>not sure if the urq colors were the same as 4kq colors by model year.
>i do know that 2 or 3 of the 85 urqs on the list are graphite.
>(at least anton's and glen's are reported as such.)
>i don't recall hearing of a pre-85 graphite urq.
>the guy could just be confused about the color...
>(or colorblind?)  =8)

'83 UrQ colours, from German 1/83 brochure:

Marsrot			bright red
Alpinweiss		off-white
Zermattsilber metallic	silver
Montegoschwarz metallic	black metallic
Amazonasblau metallic	dark blue metallic
Portorosé metallic	brown (dark copper) metallic

And, from a French 8/81 brochure:

Rouge Mars
Blanc Alpes
Vert Lhassa métal	dark green metallic
Bleu hélios métal	very dark blue metallic
Beige Gobi métal	gold/beige-ish metallic
Argent diamant métal

These same colours can be found in a German 1/82 brochure I've just
acquired. The Portorose looks very distinctive- almost fashionable again,
especially with the weird 'camouflage pattern' fabric interior of the early
cars...

HTH,

Tom