No Justy Vacation!

The Subaru Justy was a three-cylinder econocar sold from 1987 through 1994. I'm very familiar with it: I bought the wife a 1991 model off the local Subie dealer’s lot for just over 10 grand - it was white but the interior was done up in gray cloth with a subtle teal (yes!) & magenta plaid pattern.

I drove that car's twin in Japan, in 1992: right-hand drive but otherwise identical.

As for the missus' car, it gave up the ghost after a decade of mild use when the ECVT transmission bit the biscuit. Until then, it was a very reliable, surprisingly comfortable car - even on the highway!

But we're digressing again... Subaru offered a very limited color palette for the Justy: 6 different silver/greys, 5 reds, 4 whites and 3 blues - plus black in 1989 and 1991, and "Electric Yellow" in 1991 only (ever seen one? I haven't!).

The blues were metallic Bermuda Blue in 1989-90, Turquoise over Pewter two-tone in 1990, and metallic Nassau Turquoise from 1991 through the end of the Justy's run in 1994. That extended availability - matched only by "High-Tech Red" - is why the tropical blue-green hue seems stereotypically Justyish.

Bermuda Blue, by the way, is a more subdued silver-blue hue that was no longer available for our featured 1992 Justy... yep, Justy buyers in the mood for blue got teal and liked it, or they got nuthin!

Er, excuse me, "Nassau Turquoise" - or as Murilee Martin from TTAC's Down On The Junkyard calls it: "Cherenkov Radiation Turquoise".

(via Seattle's Parked Cars)