Beetles with Multi-Colored body parts

[iowegian]

This is a very interesting thread.
Thanks, Bruce, for starting it.

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[tasb]

I've read through most of this topic but not every word, interesting none the less. I didn't see any examples from early cars, maybe because it's a post 1958 thread, but I do have one to contribute.

This is an original paint December of 1955- 1956 model year pastel green USA delivered Beetle. The original paint is weathering off nicely and reveals this, on the exterior of the front hood:

That's jungle green under the pastel green. The car was manufactured a few days before Christmas, 1955 and delivered to Washington state. It didn't get titled until just before Valentines Day, 1956, and the title is from a Lakewood, CA dealership, a suburb of Los Angeles. I would think that an LA ordered VW would have been delivered through Long Beach, not Washington state? Leads me to suspect that something happened to the car in transit, the hood was replaced and repainted and then shipped to LA, no?

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@tasb

Certainly possible it could have been happening in 55/56, the paint/body specialist elrick67 mentioned his '58 back on page 3.

You're in the best position to judge. Have a close look under the hood, it might have thinner coats of paint, but it should have the same Jungle green under Pastel, and the paint on hood hinge bolts should be undisturbed.
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[67ctbug]

Here's the hood on my 67. Underneath it is nice factory black with no sign of damage, on the top side during paint prep, however, we have primers then red, then sealer, then VW Blue, then sealer, then black. I can only see the red in a few places where I burned through the blue, however, there is filler under the black. This is factory paint so VW did do actual dent repair on stuff.

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[61SNRF]

@67ctbug,
I don't believe VW ever used any plastic fillers under factory paint, it should be all metal work. Your second pic does look typical of cars in this topic but hard to say from this side.

Here's a perfect example I recently found on FB, Ruby Red under Sea Blue...

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[hopkin]

Just saw this thread, here's a pic of my old '71 Super I had in the early '80s. The road salt wasn't kind to my (then) 10 year old car:

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[socal1904]

Here is a shot of mine

[finster]

here's a pic from wolfsburg in 54/55. filling imperfections after primer

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[67ctbug]

[61SNRF]

@hopken and socal 1904, if you have read from page 1 you should know that this topic was created to showcase unmolested cars with cars with ORIGINAL paint.

Since both of your cars obviously feature NEITHER of these atributes I would greatly appreciate it if you would please delete each of your posts.

Thank you for your understanding.
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[AlteWagen]

Filler was used on the assembly line. These barndoor buses are full of it

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[finster]

[quote="61SNRF"]
First off, can finster please provide the source and legitimacy of this photo?

sure - page 136 of 'als der kafer laufen lernte' by bernd wiersch a book of photos taken at the factory in 1954

ps -perhaps you should change the title of the thread by adding 'factory fitted' or similar...
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[finster]

here's another pic from the same book showing quality control inspectors in the bodyshop - played by val kilmer and geoffrey rush look-a-likies

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[61SNRF]

Found this example while browsing the Classifieds...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2376802
Note paint on left front fender worn through revealing Java Green under OG Black...

Seems like these oddity's are more commonly seen '65-> as paint quality from this era seemed to drop off.
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[61SNRF]

..and yet another perfect example from jchaidez, Sea Blue door under Ruby Red topcoat...

Wonder what retort bill may would have now? May he RIP.
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