Re: Polo Harlekin - was Re: A fracion of a Rainbow

[Sam Jost]

From what I've been reading on his site he lost the content of the site due 
to a virus and not having a backup and is in the process of rebuilding it 
now, so I'd say he'd be happy about a picture!

thanks,
Sam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Been meaning to grab a few pics anyway ... each time I get over there with
a camera there's been something preventing getting a good snap.  Last time
there was a big truck parked in front of the car, time before that the car
wasn't there, and so on .... <sigh>
When I saw your message I went over to the site to poke around.  I will
send him a pic once I can get a few.
Shel

[Original Message]
From: Sam Jost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11/6/2004 12:20:17 AM
Subject: Re: Polo Harlekin - was Re: A fracion of a Rainbow
As far as I read it up it seems to be a limited production from 1995/1996
with four different colorful schemes.
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
>
>
>> [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 a
> few
>> people 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
>