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I looked at the photos on the website you linked, and it seems pretty clear that the dogs are really just a washed out Chocolate. They don't look much like Weimaraners . . . the head is pure Lab - blocky and with the Lab earset. The body and legs aren't Weim either.

This I think is an example of shade variation within the color. We see this in Blue Point Siamese . . . you can have Blue Points with an (undesirable) buff or brown tone to the blue color. I have one little Blue female who has very pronounced buff shading to her blue color -- my big Blue male has the true slate-blue tone, and if you put them side by side it's obvious.

They're pretty, but I think the website's assertion that it's only a matter of time before AKC recognizes the color is just whistling in the dark. You couldn't show those dogs.

Of course, they'd be perfectly good for anything else you wanted to do, so long as their hips and eyes are good and they don't have temperament problems. That's the problem with breeding from a restricted gene pool - especially in the first few generations.