There is someone collecting pictures and sightings of these cars, I think he'd be grateful if you send him a sighting of one at your place and even more if you could provide a picture.
His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Interesting. There's one living not far from me. I always thought it was
either a custom paint job (there are lots of odd and colorful cars in
Berkeley) or one of those deals where the car had been smashed up and
different colored body panels from the wrecking yard were used as
replacements. How neat to know it's a regular, perhaps limited production,
VW.
Shel
few[Original Message] From: Sam Jost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/5/2004 10:28:52 PM Subject: Polo Harlekin - was Re: A fracion of a Rainbow
> Second, there's a VW Golf here in Toronto, Canada, with the same > paint job as the one on your street. I always thought that the one > here was some sort of "custom" job, but now I wonder. > Are there others like that in Europe that you've seen?
a lot. VW had an ad campaign a dozen years ago where they used this paint job to show you could order this car in lots of custom colors. I met apeople saying 'if they would make it this colorful I'd buy it', and there must been a lot more since after some time they offered the colorful version.
The paint job even got a name: Polo Harlekin.
It's quite common here, there used to be a fan site for it but it's down right now due to hacking or something.
Sam
