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Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:49 pm

I had a '66 Caribbean Blue bug which looked turquoise to me.

Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:30 pm

79SuperVert wrote: Mine:

That car is nice. 8)

Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:58 am

Thanks. I can't get enough of it. I keep coming up with excuses for driving it.

Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:02 am

"Oscar" my 1963 turned 46 on May 24th 2009, I wanted to buy
him a small birthday cake but he said “NO” he didn’t want to
become a “Fat Chick”. So we just did some flowers.

I just love the color........... L 380 Turquoise.

Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:09 am

I call my car peacock. It's a 69. Repainted over a maroon or dark red. You can see it in my avatar.

Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:40 am

Thanks folks!!! I am sold on the Turquoise return. Now to the forums that provide info on removing a garbage Maaco cream to reveal the OG paint. I am going to run a deck lid rack and those white mudflaps on the pic above would complete the look.

Appreciate the picks.

Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:15 pm

millerje78 wrote: that color is beautiful, but unfortunately it would look stupid on my 73 for some reason.

Why is it that early colors look so out of place on fat chicks? strange.

Because the colors are not "period correct".
Back when I was taking Auto shop in the late 70's I was the VW guy in the class.
Which meant any VW that came into Auto-shop I had to work on.
The Auto-shop Teacher’s Reverend had an old VW that his daughter drove into a tree.
I told the Auto-shop Teacher we could get a new fender & bumper and get that thing rolling in no time.
He insisted we could repair the existing fender,
so I took it off & he beat it into submission with a rubber mallet until it was close to it’s former shape.
I put the fender back on, and he laid about a ½ gallon of Bondo on it and “carved” a fender.
I did the rest of the prep on the car which was high caliber compared to most cars that ran though the High School paint shop.
The daughter picked a beautiful shade of dark turquoise metallic green from like a Lincoln.
It was a beautiful color, but it didn’t match the car, it was a shame to not to have spotted in the repaired areas in the original turquoise.
I hope someone “Easy-offed” that car back to it’s original turquoise color,
and if they did, I’m sorry about the driver’s side front fender it’s not my fault the Auto-shop Teacher made me do it :)

Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:00 am

turkis rocks.

Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:56 am

Looks totally original. Very nice. Was it at Flanders? I recall one just like it there.

Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:24 pm

it was at englishtown last year. all original, 85k miles.

Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:56 pm

Here's my turk I got yesterday. It a Euro.

Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:13 pm

69 Jim wrote: 79SuperVert wrote: Mine:

That car is nice. 8)

It's been a while, but I have to say it again, that's nice. Very well done. 8)

Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:46 pm

That looks sweat. Wish I had some of the pop out.

Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:05 pm

Cool story about the popouts and the wheels: the second previous owner used to hang out as a kid at a mechanic's shop in Connecticut. When the mechanic died, his wife called him to come up from Florida and take whatever he wanted out of the shop basement. He found these popouts and he found five original paint wheels that were taken off a new '62 Turquoise convertible and wrapped in paper and left in the basement all those years. He put them on this '62 he had just bought.

Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:35 pm

Here's one I've seen around town. Not mine, but I sure wish it was!

Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:55 am

Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:59 am

bandet wrote: Here's my turk I got yesterday. It a Euro.

Just curious- what makes you think it's Euro car? Many Canadian cars migrated south... I see just a KPH speedo- but are there more clues?

Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:50 pm

The guy I got it from was the second owner of the car. And he got form the army guy that got it in Germany and had it shipped over here. I'm going to send in for the B/C & see what it tell me. Then agin I don't know what all the sign are for a euro.

Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:58 pm

it's not a euro. It has full US spec bumpers and the holes in the aprons to mount them. Many many many cars were bought by US military members, and brought back. Most were delivered in US spec. Still a cool original car

Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:10 pm

heres my dads turkis bug

pretty cool vw color