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cat1pro
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 Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:12 am Post subject: Split bus color ranking based on rarity |
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I have done some searches but have come up empty.
Does some have the answer to which is the rarest color combo and which is most common? I would love to see a complete list if possible. |
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turkis-deluxe
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I don't believe that VW ever tracked how many of which color was produced and that you'll most likely get opinions here based on what people have seen.
And this will get skewed based on models or special order colors.
Personally any single color deluxe would be highest on the rarity color starting with Dove Blue. There's my opinion!! 
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Z
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:49 am Post subject: |
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x2 on what Turkis-Deluxe said.
I'd bet that mouse gray dash buses would be really high on the rarity list...not sure just how nitpicky/detailed we're making this 'list'. |
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turkis-deluxe
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| Z wrote: |
x2 on what Turkis-Deluxe said.
I'd bet that mouse gray dash buses would be really high on the rarity list...not sure just how nitpicky/detailed we're making this 'list'. |
I'd typically agree but that just happens to be the year produced versus the color as you could say the same for turkis dashes, mango dashes, etc..... |
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cat1pro
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| I always hear palm green/sand green as a rare color..i have also heard mouse grey..what are your thoughts on sea blue/blue white? |
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Eric&Barb
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Primer only would be rarest.
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GTV
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Black.
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CaLiBus
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Yes!
The black on black 64 deluxe Ronnie discovered with 2 tone non grey mesh interior.
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Erik G
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Yes!
The black on black 64 deluxe Ronnie discovered with 2 tone non grey mesh interior.
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yeah, I have only seen a couple black type 2's. Eric Zitsman's double cab being one of them
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EmpiGT
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| turkis-deluxe wrote: |
| Z wrote: |
x2 on what Turkis-Deluxe said.
I'd bet that mouse gray dash buses would be really high on the rarity list...not sure just how nitpicky/detailed we're making this 'list'. |
I'd typically agree but that just happens to be the year produced versus the color as you could say the same for turkis dashes, mango dashes, etc..... |
All factory mango busses have mango dashes.. scratch that from your list. |
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EmpiGT
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| cat1pro wrote: |
| I always hear palm green/sand green as a rare color..i have also heard mouse grey..what are your thoughts on sea blue/blue white? |
palm/sand green isn't rare at all, it came standard on ever standard bus built between 1955-1958. Mouse grey was a color offered on multiple style and year busses so still not rare. As for sea blue/blue white, that is probably one of the most common colors only behind velvet green/white for the years they were used. |
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L76 Brown Beige (top of bus in pic below):
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ricekooker
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EverettB 
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| cat1pro wrote: |
| I always hear palm green/sand green as a rare color..i have also heard mouse grey..what are your thoughts on sea blue/blue white? |
None of those are rare.
I agree with the person above that Sea Blue is super common.
Sea Blue/Blue White a little less common since it was 65 only but not rare in any way
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turkis-deluxe
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| Z wrote: |
x2 on what Turkis-Deluxe said.
I'd bet that mouse gray dash buses would be really high on the rarity list...not sure just how nitpicky/detailed we're making this 'list'. |
I'd typically agree but that just happens to be the year produced versus the color as you could say the same for turkis dashes, mango dashes, etc..... |
All factory mango busses have mango dashes.. scratch that from your list. |
Good point!!
I like the black choices........gotta be very few ordered that way. |
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Ran When Parked
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:36 pm Post subject: what about.... |
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What about a lotus white deluxe, that rare?
No expert, but I thought CB/SWR is rare. It is around here anyway. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: what about.... |
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What about a lotus white deluxe, that rare?
No expert, but I thought CB/SWR is rare. It is around here anyway. |
I've seen only one black, but many deluxes in lotus white.
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EverettB
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: what about.... |
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What about a lotus white deluxe, that rare?
No expert, but I thought CB/SWR is rare. It is around here anyway. |
There is one by my house and another one a few miles away so I would say No. 
For both of those Buses above, there are fewer of those than some other Buses but I wouldn't say rare.
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