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Fairview
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 Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:43 pm Post subject: Your favorite vintage Volkswagen colors? |
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Half the fun of getting back to my vintage VW roots has been the fun-filled colors. The oranges, greens, wacky plains, pop top yellows, reds, and blues really sing out. It sure makes the modern car palette of silver, black, and white seem quite boring.
My favorites are the early Ghia Pacific Blue and the Sage Green of the bay window era. How about you?
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chabanais
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I always liked Niagara Blue and when I got my Bus I was somewhat upset that it was Sierra Yellow... not a color I could really ever choose. However now I think it's a great color:
I do like some of the colors the 1950s/60s Karmann Ghias have and this is my favorite:
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FullFender
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Red Rail
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| What about Sea Sand? Or as I call it, Turkey Turd Brown. No offense, that's what color mine was. |
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TheAmazingDave
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I've grown quite fond of my Clementine Orange. I wouldn't have chosen it new, but when we found Herbert, we couldn't turn him away, and the orange grew on me like fungus on a turd.
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Karmannut
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L360 Sea Blue
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mark tucker
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Your favorite vintage Volkswagen colors? |
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| Fairview wrote: |
Half the fun of getting back to my vintage VW roots has been the fun-filled colors. The oranges, greens, wacky plains, pop top yellows, reds, and blues really sing out. It sure makes the modern car palette of silver, black, and white seem quite boring.
My favorites are the early Ghia Pacific Blue and the Sage Green of the bay window era. How about you?
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last weekend I saw a great looking bug that color blue in lake eufalla (alabama) on a trailer behind a big toter home from utah. looked sweet but must of had broken axles the way the rear wheels were all bent inwards. |
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Hacksaw-BoB
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67jason
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vw blue
savana beige
strato silver
lotus white
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mark tucker
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I kinda like clear so it's in stealth mode.
me picking a color is like the fat man deciding on witch doughnut ..... |
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60ragtop
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| mark tucker wrote: |
| I kinda like clear so it's in stealth mode. |
clear just brings out the ugliness 
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FullFender
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| mark tucker wrote: |
| I kinda like clear so it's in stealth mode. |
clear just brings out the ugliness |
"Camouflage"  |
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KTPhil 
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I suppose like my post here, many post about the colors of their favorite old VWs. My fave is Zenith Blue from my '67 Bug. A subtle shade that changes with the ambient lighting.
Next is Clementine, color of my current and only VW, a '71 Fastback. Bright as heck, though a little toned down from the later brighter oranges, so it does change some at sunset or at night.
After these, too many to count! The old desaturated tones really stand the test of time.
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richardc
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It's a tie between L351 Coral Red and L380 Turquoise.
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Hacksaw-BoB
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How about the L351 Coral Red , L456 Ruby Red and the L87 Pearl White color combo 
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