Standard 1951/L21 Pearl Gray combinated with colored lines

[Ed Economy]

Wrong, This is an original VW dealer photo, with real people, real cars, real buildings, real color, not a black & white color added print.

The color texture you see is me just throwing the picture in a scanner then cropping it down 5 times its original jpeg size to get the right size to fit the requirements for this site. After this they tend to loose the bold colors.

[Stock Steve]

[Wiggy]

[79SuperVert]

[Ed Economy]

No Harm taken The big problem is when you scan you loose so much of really what is there. If I sounded rude back sorry, it is more out of frustration of the time it takes to scan a nice photo then the finished product is crap.
For the last 2 weeks I have scaned over 100 pieces. I hope to start selling some of a 600-700 piece private literature collection soon. Everything from KDF to Super beetle, All of this must be scanned to be sold and I think some might not look authentic when done.

I have shared some pieces with Everett so he can be the Scan Man

[p horvath]

[belgianboxer]

[billmetric]

I believe all "export standards" had chrome, the window cranks will have black knobs with chrome handles, only the "home market" standards were without chrome, I have not been able to find out if they had chrome wipers or not, it was probably a few more pennys for the wipers at the time but it seems odd to see chrome everywhere but the wipers on the above car, although one of my Hoffman standards had an old chrome wire wiper arm in a box of rust scraps with it niether of my Hoffman standards had wiper bases with them, I see the above export standard has the pin stripes also but mine are much more pink than red as above car has, I only got one 16'' wheel with mine and I dont think the date code matched the car but the one wheel did have some coral pink on it

( on a closer look the above car has LARGE post '58> wiper blades on it and not the smaller <'57 blades so obviously the arms and bases are of questionable correctness )

( my export standards also had normal late type chrome split bumper overriders on them which the above car is missing )
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[standard-brezel]

I have catched an older piece of color examples made in 1955 ....

there is also the Siegellackrot L53 named Sealing Wax Red in english.... it´s a nice color at the end, but is it the right color ....... is there anybody who has got an order form from 1951 / or original invoice from the first owner who received the car in this color combination ( Standard L21 with the unknown kind of red ) ? It seems to be very hard to find out the correct details about this .

[kdf38]

What is the correct color for a Nov 47 car delivered to the US Army Exchange service in Frankfurt?

http://www.rickspowdercoating.com/powdercoating_color.htm

RAL
7021 Schwartzgrau
7011 Eisengrau
6006 Feldgrau
7038 ?

What info is known about the red color used for late 1947 wheels?

What is the color code for that one?

thanks,
Mike

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[mrsherbie]

[IN2VWS]

For reference....L50 and L351, both Coral Red.

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[mrsherbie]

OOh! Thats an interesting chart!

Do you have oval period L251 red ? (my 55 hubs) the recipe would be a godsend as the vw museum retain no record of it other than its existance.

Remi's Belgian 53

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quote 50karmann " it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create"

[IN2VWS]

Sorry.....No info on L251.

I'd bet my left knacker that the VW Museum does have info on L251 and other colors, but they just are too busy (lazy) to look, or they don't know where to look.

I'd love to go through their literature one day......probably wouldn't let me near it though.
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[Joshua B]

My question is: is the interior brown color (seat frames e brake etc) listed on those charts? If so couldn't the coral color just be listed because it is an accessory color (wheel centers and pin stripping) to the sand.

Just like Wiggy said, and I never really thought of it it I read it here. I have yet to see an og coral split.

[kdf38]

[mrsherbie]

[IN2VWS]

Here is a 16" that I have with original paint on it.

with flash:

without flash

I just physically scanned the rim with my color analyser, and it comes up very close to L450, which was a wheel color. It will look differnt on different monitors, but for those that want to play around on the PC, it comes up as:
sRGB 117, 64, 50
HTML #754032
L*a*b* 34.4, 24.3, 20.1

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[kdf38]

Right Side - These are some of the GRAY-typ Colors I am thinking of for my Mid-Nov 1947 car,

Left Side - 3 Reddish Browns and RAL 6003 Olivgruen then MS Paint on the bottom with SWaxRed "grab" and color made using RGB values given
in the other post for wheel rim color.

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RAL Codes & colors & MS Paint SealingWax Red and IN2VWs values for[RGB 117, 64, 50] Posted: Today 1:06 am


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RAL Colors found online - Test picking for 47 VW Colors

Bottom right reddish is color grabbed from L53 color block with MS Paint
Bottom right brownish color is color made with MS Paint using
RGB== [117, 64,50] as a custom color in MS Paint.
Screen captured from my Monitor

[Anchovy]