Beryl green frustration

[Skip2MyLou]

[62ItalianRagtop]

[62ItalianRagtop]

Someone told me that beryl green could have green or beige carpet ? Is it True? Any documentation about this?
Thank you
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[Rome]

By coincidence this morning I stumbled across this remarkable factory paint detail manual in theSamba Archives-Literature-Beetle- 1959 Colors Canada. But it has an update to show the body and interior/matching colors for the 1961 model year (as of August 1960). I don't see the carpet colors on these two pages for Beryl Green but maybe the colors are on another page.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/8_59_paint_book/beetle_13.jpg
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/8_59_paint_book/beetle_14.jpg

[maggiolino91]

Hi! Has anyone try to die the sunroof vinyl in beryl green? With which product?
Thank you,
Greetings from Italy!
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1956 strato silver L227 ragtop
1961 beryl green L478 ragtop
1973 superbeetle pastelweiss L90D

[zombieite]

Thank you all for this thread.

I've always thought it was bad taste to change the color of a car. No matter what you do to a car, the one thing you should never change is its color. And if possible, if you find a car's color has been changed, you should recapture its history by going back to the original color, when you can afford to do so. The color, more than anything else, brings you back to the time the car was made.

I just purchased a great '63. It's technically my second bug, but this is my first attempt at entering into a long-term relationship with one. It's a beautiful light blue color, possibly even L289 blue-white. But that was only a wheel color, not a body color, in '63. So this was not its original color. But the blue-white color is attractive and vaguely period-correct. And the body, mechanicals, and price were all right so I bought.

I've ordered my car's birth certificate and am still waiting for it. But I assumed, when you're churning out millions of cars, the original paint color might not even have been recorded at the factory and/or kept this long (Do they really do that? If so, cool!). And bugs are always so frequently modified and customized that it I assumed it eventually gets impossible to tell what color a car was when it came from the factory.

Today we were ripping out the clearly aftermarket upholstery and looking for clues. It's tough because the repaint was clearly a good and thorough one. But then I noticed the handbrake lever was weirdly out-of-place green.

And the panels on the back seats that the heels of your feet kick were green. And the steering column was green.

There's only one color of bug from '63 that came with a green handbrake. Beryl Green.

Must... resist... spending lots of money to bring it back... to green....

[Landsverk]

One thing I wonder about is the rear kick panels under the back seat 1961. Which colour? Matched to other? No hole I assume? Does anyone have some pics? I have to manufacture something here and need some guidence, thanks.

[IN2VWS]

[maggiolino91]

Hi guys!
Let me introduce you my 04/1961 Italian beryl!

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1956 strato silver L227 ragtop
1961 beryl green L478 ragtop
1973 superbeetle pastelweiss L90D

[Busstom]

[IN2VWS]

[pastellgreen]

Stunning! I'm the only one thinking this car deserves an own thread?

[maggiolino91]

Thank you all guys!
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1956 strato silver L227 ragtop
1961 beryl green L478 ragtop
1973 superbeetle pastelweiss L90D

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