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Matts70Bug
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 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:39 pm Post subject: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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I know there's an OG paint thread around here that you can post your factory paint, patina and rust included. Which is fine! But I want to also see some of your VWs that have been repainted to factory colors!
I'm a sucker for the Cobalt Blue.. Maybe because that was the original color of my 1970 Bug.... One day I plan on repainting it back to the factory color.... In the mean time, let's see some of your factory repaints!
Thanks!
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Ksprague
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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Not factory colored yet, but that's the plan . . .
i want to return my '72 Westy to her original luster - (and get rid of the PO's rattle can finish). As near as I can tell by comparing VW paint chips to the door jams and other unmolested painted areas inside the cab, the original color was Texas yellow.
I'm curious about that, because it has slowly dawned on me that I don't think I've ever seen another one that color. The paint references that I've seen list it as a color for the Beetle in '72 but not the T2.
Did Westfalia have separate color schemes? Or does anyone have any insight into this?
Thanks!
Kevin
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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| Ksprague wrote: |
| Did Westfalia have separate color schemes? Or does anyone have any insight into this? |
Westfalia used the same colors as the rest of the model line for the most part, the M code for Westfalia paint at the factory included painting the interior the same as the exterior, opposed to the grey or beige Kombi's usually were finished with inside. Some Euro models were available with 2 tone paint but North American versions wer monotone inside and out.
Your OG paint spec can be found on the M plate on the bulkhead behind the LF seat.
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srm1956
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:15 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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Here's my 54. Color is L213 Iceland Green. It is the color the car was painted originally.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L349 jade green
color is hard to capture on film though and shows different in every picture...(more in my gallery)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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| srm1956 wrote: |
Here's my 54. Color is L213 Iceland Green. It is the color the car was painted originally.
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This is amongst my favorite colors on a Beetle. |
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Bryan67
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L360 Sea Blue 66 Beetle
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African Red L31A - a 9 month only color
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:58 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L245 Light Bronze
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1967 bug repainted the correct L639 Zenith Blue.
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L 436 Indigo Blue (1960)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L346 Mango Green.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L518 Java Green, The one in the back is 1970 fat chick red. 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:52 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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Original 1974 with rust and patina 
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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another L360 Sea Blue sloppy old respray by a po needs redone interior and under hood/decklid still original
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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Velvet Green and Blue White
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L390, Gulf blue..
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L30B Kansan Red on a 1972 Super Beetle. Not too shabby when you consider I did the bodywork back in high school and paid $600 for the respray 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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L 51 Bordeaux Red. '49-early '51.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Post your factory colored VWs! |
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