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Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:05 am

I've got a few touch ups to do and i'm not sure what colour it is?

Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:08 am

green

Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:14 am

RafCarre12 wrote: green

That's what I was thinking. :D

Seriously though, I don't think that is an OG color, at least not for a Type 3.

Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:45 am

L512. Velvet Green. It was a 1965 T-3 color.

I owned one back in the 70's. Nice color.

Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:37 am

Russ Wolfe wrote: L512. Velvet Green. It was a 1965 T-3 color.

Could be. My Notch before paint:

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Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:44 am

That is my favorite VW color after black.

Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:53 am

Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:24 pm

Russ Wolfe wrote: L512. Velvet Green. It was a 1965 T-3 color.

I owned one back in the 70's. Nice color.

one of my favorites

Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:59 am

I got some touch up paint in L512 Velvet Green. It's a couple of shades lighter than what's on the car. Is there any vw greens that are slighter darker?

Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:08 am

Then try a Java Green (L-518). It is darker than Velvet Green.
But Java was never used on Type 3's.
In 66 they had a Delta Green (L-610)
and in 68 they had a Peru Green (L-60B)
and they had Deep Sea Green (L-66B)
Deep Sea Green is almost black.

Go through the paint chips that are in the Technical section of The Samba.

Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:28 am

Russ Wolfe wrote: Then try a Java Green (L-518). It is darker than Velvet Green.
But Java was never used on Type 3's.
In 66 they had a Delta Green (L-610)
and in 68 they had a Peru Green (L-60B)
and they had Deep Sea Green (L-66B)
Deep Sea Green is almost black.

Go through the paint chips that are in the Technical section of The Samba.

That looks like L-60B Perugruen on my monitor. Velvet Green is about a shade lighter.

Peru is one of my faves. Look at BerT3's NOS '68 Fast build thread for lots of pics of Peru Green.

Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:30 pm

Thanks for the replies...Tram - yeah think you might be right with L-60B Peru.

Problem is...you find one colour that looks to match and then another that looks totally different. So much variation with differing cameras, it's hard to decifer.

Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:07 pm

This is the difference - The wrong colour,L512 Velvet Green, on the left.

Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:16 pm

Russ Wolfe wrote: Go through the paint chips that are in the Technical section of The Samba.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/paintcodest3.php

Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:38 am

Monkeydub wrote:

I've got a few touch ups to do and i'm not sure what colour it is?

What happened to those headlights? I had to look twice. Beetle? Mercedes?

Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:47 am

here's my 68 peru green for reference (ignore the darker rear fender... it has clear coat over the OG peru green so it looks darker)

Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:20 pm

Monkeydub wrote: I got some touch up paint in L512 Velvet Green. It's a couple of shades lighter than what's on the car. Is there any vw greens that are slighter darker? get it matched over if its only a slight difference i am a painter in australia but i am sure colour matching would be available in the states if its close too what you want may just need a couple of tints too get it right each time a batch is mixed their will be slight colour variations

Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:22 pm

l469 wrote: Monkeydub wrote: I got some touch up paint in L512 Velvet Green. It's a couple of shades lighter than what's on the car. Is there any vw greens that are slighter darker? get it matched over if its only a slight difference i am a painter in australia but i am sure colour matching would be available in the states if its close too what you want may just need a couple of tints too get it right each time a batch is mixed their will be slight colour variations sorry just seen you are in the uk easy same applies :oops:

Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:28 pm

Cleaned the dust off the velvet green notch