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karmann77 Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2007 Posts: 36
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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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I've very recently acquired a very nice unrestored 56 Horizon Blue big and it has these unrestored wheels on it, just thought I’d add them to this thread.
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pastellgreen Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2012 Posts: 1036 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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All information I have is:
body coloured outer rims are only on cars built from March 1955 to March 1956. From April 1956, the colour of the outer rims have been other colours than the body on nearly all cars (out of two, see below). Horizon blue cars had L33 grey blue. That was to read in the original VW factory documents I had to work with (including change-history, f.e. when they actually used another colour than it was originally planned). For the original colours of the rims from March 1955 to July 1957 I privately wrote it down for my use.
So I have:
From March 1955 to March 1956, up from chassis 1 - 823 605 to 1 173 572
body L 41 black, rim center L 81 parchm. white
body L 370 nile beige, rim center L 277 silver beige
body L 277 stratos silver, rim center L 82 silver white
body L 324 polar silver, rim center L 87 perlon white
body L 313 reed green, rim center L 87 perlon white
body L 315 djungle (iceland) green, rim center L 83 white green
From April 1956 to July 1957, up from chassis 1 173 573 to 1 600 439
body L 41 black, rim L 41 black, center L 81 parchm. white
body L 324 polar silver, rim L 328 steel grey, center L 87 perlon white
body L 331 horizon blue, rim L 33 grey blue, center L 82 silver white
body L 351 coral red, rim L 74 red brown, center L 277 silver beige
body L 412 diamont green L 412, rim L 242 blue green, center L 277 silver beige
body L 378 prairie beige, rim L 77 dark beige, center L 277 silver beige
body L 240 agave, rim L 240 agave, center L 87 perlon white
Interesting that rim center colour L 87 perlon white turned to body colour L 87 pearl white in August 1960. |
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AlteWagen Troll
Joined: February 23, 2007 Posts: 8497 Location: PNW
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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karmann77 wrote: |
I've very recently acquired a very nice unrestored 56 Horizon Blue big and it has these unrestored wheels on it, just thought I’d add them to this thread.
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Beautiful and matches the card too!!
It would be great if you could have that wheel scanned and a formula made as L30 is used for a few different years on wheels and to date no code has surfaced. _________________ Grapes of Wrath $200 Engine Rebuild
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lardawge Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2020 Posts: 355 Location: California
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 6:25 am Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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This paint color has now been color matched by temple paints. I had a stock wheel that I had matched. My wheels were too far gone to save so I opted to paint them.
The wheel above claiming to be an original wheel is suspect. I have never seen OG paint crack like that.
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gzaharatos67 Samba Member
Joined: September 07, 2018 Posts: 68 Location: CO
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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Couldn't get L31 at my local glasurit dealer for my outer rims so ended up using horizon blue, the body color of my 9/56 oval. Just putting this here as an update on what's out there. L31 wasn't in their system.
Oddly enough, L29 (gas tank color) was and I got a pint and shot the tank. |
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gzaharatos67 Samba Member
Joined: September 07, 2018 Posts: 68 Location: CO
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Horizon Blue Wheel Color |
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Just one more for now. Will share photos when car is complete. |
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