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Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:12 pm

As I start to get deeper into my 54 project, I have uncovered a green color paint on heater channels and front firewall. Also have uncovered some green on bottoms of fenders and in the rear luggage/firewall sections. This leads me to believe my April of 54 Oval might possibly be Iceland Green from factory. I have searched the gallery/forums and have found very few pics of L213. Can someone post some pics for me. I'm thinking of spraying this color when that time comes around. I will be using Glasurit paint trying to keep color as close to original. I also discovered this color combo to use green cloth 51. I have not seen green cloth so I have no clue how this combo would look.......HELP PLEASE.....

Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:24 am

Hopefully someone will get you a picture of a car you can use.

Too bad VW didn't put color chips in their sales books and brochures in the early days.

Often when I come across scans of pages of paint color chips online, I'll save them to my computer for future reference. Plus I've got a couple of my own in there. Looking at them though I only found two that had that color included, computer scans are only as good as whoever scanned them and your monitor, but here's what those two chips look like:

Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:09 am

My car was originally Iceland Green (great color btw). The outside got resprayed somehwat poorly, but the interior is still original. I can snap some shots tomorrow if you'd like. Those scans above look very close, atleast on my monitor anyway.

Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:29 pm

my 55,
i think no matter how you look at it through a computer it will never look the same in person.
if you want more shots just ask

Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:53 pm

Russ wrote: my 55,
i think no matter how you look at it through a computer it will never look the same in person.
if you want more shots just ask

some extra pics would be great. Send email.....

btw....the 55 looks great!! :shock:

Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:54 pm

focuszx3r wrote: My car was originally Iceland Green (great color btw). The outside got resprayed somehwat poorly, but the interior is still original. I can snap some shots tomorrow if you'd like. Those scans above look very close, atleast on my monitor anyway.

thanks.....that would be helpful. Is the interior green cloth?

Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:06 pm

Not much different than Agave L240 is it ?
Or maybe it's just me :?

Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:04 pm

54ovsemi wrote: focuszx3r wrote: My car was originally Iceland Green (great color btw). The outside got resprayed somehwat poorly, but the interior is still original. I can snap some shots tomorrow if you'd like. Those scans above look very close, atleast on my monitor anyway.

thanks.....that would be helpful. Is the interior green cloth?

No actually its red leatherette. Its the original interior. Its also not the first Iceland green/red interior I have heard of...there are pics of atleas 2 others on this site. Now let me go see if I can get decent pics..

Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:17 pm

focuszx3r wrote: 54ovsemi wrote: focuszx3r wrote: My car was originally Iceland Green (great color btw). The outside got resprayed somehwat poorly, but the interior is still original. I can snap some shots tomorrow if you'd like. Those scans above look very close, atleast on my monitor anyway.

thanks.....that would be helpful. Is the interior green cloth?

No actually its red leatherette. Its the original interior. Its also not the first Iceland green/red interior I have heard of...there are pics of atleas 2 others on this site. Now let me go see if I can get decent pics..
weird mine had red letherette as well...although when searching colour options i don't think it was one.
least i'm not alone.
i went with a tan/mocha interior in mine (early ford material actually)
most people think it looks like a stock vw interior (lenny copp noticed though :lol:

Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:54 pm

Here is mine its Iceland green with red interior

Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:28 pm

hotwheeler1 wrote: Here is mine its Iceland green with red interior

Super nice.

Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:27 pm

nice car.

Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:33 pm

WOW....speechless.......VERY NICE.....thx for da pics.....