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Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:04 pm

Definitely great thread!!! Anyone find a good match for L90D, Pastel White?

Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:14 am

Any suggestions for 1969 toga white? Any white with a cream undertone...need it for my wheels so i have a tiny bit of flexibility. [/list]

Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:24 pm

"Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Gloss Ivory Bisque vs. L 282 Lotus White. And when I had trouble finding it, I also used Painter's Touch Heirloom White "

My local Home Depot doesn't seem to carry Ivory Bisque. Instead they have an Ivory Silk that looks very close. Perhaps they changed the name?

For painting two-tone '67 Beetle rims, what sheen am I looking for? I think the grey-black LD-43 used a dulling agent but the lotus white part doesn't say... Got the grey black already from WW. Ssould I spray a Rustoleum clear matte to dull it up? Just over the black?

Thanks!

Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:37 am

derluftwagen wrote: LY3D Tornado Red- Krylon Sunrise red

Its actually Rustoleum Sunrise red that I found matches LY3D Tornado Red. I'm not sure what the krylon equivilent is.

Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:12 am

anyone know the L9165 Kansas Beige - ???? i would love to know

Thanks in advance
-drew

Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:35 pm

anyone?

Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:09 am

BuelaBus wrote: Definitely great thread!!! Anyone find a good match for L90D, Pastel White?

Anyone?

Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:43 pm

How about 13M Saturn Yellow?

Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:40 am

Here's a reasonably good match I've found for the orange Westy color used in 1976, MarinoGelb, which was changed slightly in 1977 to be L21H MarinoGelb77:

Krylon makes a line of rattle can paints called "Farm and Implement", and in that series they have a School Bus Yellow, #1809. It is a reasonably close match, but after a few years in the sun it will get us a tinge pinkish.

I just finished doing the back half of this bus using 12 spray cans of that color:

More photos at http://vw.tauxe.net/y3

Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:18 pm

derluftwagen wrote: Krylon Hosta leaf = Palm green
Krylon Ivory White = Sand green

Still waiting for Bill May to report on the Hosta Leaf/Velvet green possibility.
That would be my 63 pictured above^^^^ krylon hosts leaf and ivory white look very close to the PG/SG colors.

Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:35 am

Those are the colors that absolutely scream VW! 8) Is it Hosta or Hosts? :twisted:

Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:00 am

Hosta, I believe

Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:15 am

Starr1969 wrote: Any suggestions for 1969 toga white? Any white with a cream undertone...need it for my wheels so i have a tiny bit of flexibility. [/list]

this is the color i'm looking for too. any suggestions?
cheers,
pip.

Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:13 pm

Krylon ivory white might look good. Its the white color on my beetle pictured above.

Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:48 pm

Are the krylon spray bombs water based? I have my car stripped to bare metal and primed with Rustoleum white clean metal primer (oil base). Was thinking of getting the water based krylon in the quart can. It is water based. Then wet sanding it and using Rustoleum water based clear that I found at Home Depot. What do you think?

Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:51 am

I think Krylon has both water and laquer based rattle cans.

vwsteve wrote: Are the krylon spray bombs water based? I have my car stripped to bare metal and primed with Rustoleum white clean metal primer (oil base). Was thinking of getting the water based krylon in the quart can. It is water based. Then wet sanding it and using Rustoleum water based clear that I found at Home Depot. What do you think?

Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:45 pm

OK... cool thread. Looking for two colors. Let me know if you've found a match and maybe I can keep rolling original paint with just a few touchups over my rust repair areas! That would be cool.

L12A Panama Brown

L13A Dakota Beige

If no one else has the answer.... I guess I'll try to figure it out for myself and post it back up here.

Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:51 pm

Daverham, Krylon "Sand" color is dead on for "Mexico Beige" ('79 only color, looks almost exactly like "Dakota Beige"). I had a Mexico beige roof clip that I sprayed an area of "Sand" color on, and it blended so well that you couldn't tell the difference.

Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:07 am

Krylon castle rock is a pretty close match to the OG dark grey primer in the cargo area of my 60 bus.

Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:27 am

Awesome thread
I am about to do a paint job on my 'new' 71 super beetle.

Roughly how many can of paint does it take to do a beetle? I'm going to have to order paint online pretty soon, and don't want to order to little