<x-flowed> On May 15, 2005, at 05:09, Jim Adney wrote:
On 14 May 2005 at 15:47, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:It's also called Marinogelb in the german sales program I have from 1974. The name "Chrome Yellow" seems to be a US marketing thing - wonder why :)Not that VWoA wasn't above such things, but the little stickers with the colornames and numbers were affixed at the factory.
Yeah, those stickers are from the factory, and I suppose they didn't want to buy a different sticker just for US-spec cars... Still wondering what the thinking was. Maybe they thought Americans would get confused because they had a Marina Blue on some other cars of that period? ;)
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