green color and because I have a small connection to the 1:1. It was one of several cars I was seriously considering when I was ready to buy my first new car. There was one in that color in the apartment complex where I lived and the paint fascinated me every time I saw it in bright sunlight.

After reading this article and many others I bought a 78 Celica instead. No big regrets but I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to own that VW for the nine years that I had the Celica.