Sea Blue(L 360)/Blue White(L 289) fest

[i_am_cool_fred]

i'm in the process of buying a bus, and just looked at and transcribed the m-code plate.

it's a 1965 standard 11 window

with paint/interior code 121783

which is Seablue base, blue white top, and mesh gray interior

every pic i see in the gallery of blue white is just white, no blue tint to it. is that how the blue white looked??? cause in the vw bus paint chart section on this wonderful website it definately looks as if it has blue in it, yet there are no busses linked to it.

color for reference:

i wanna see pics

thank you, have a nice day
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[KWZ]

Here's my og paint sea blue/blue white '65. Trust me, if you hold a white piece of paper up the the bus you can really see the blue tint.

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[busdaddy]

How about all of these?
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=380539
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[i_am_cool_fred]

because those all appear to be sea blue/columus white

i want blue white, evidently blue white is different, and i wanted to see what the difference was.

edit:

this is really the only one in that thread that i can tell has a blue tint to the blue white:

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[i_am_cool_fred]

i understand pics, high white content, saturation, contrast, rgb web vs. cmyk printed pic, and monitor differences, it's my profession.

i was just curious if it was a noticeable difference, which it is very very subtle, and the pic above does show it and show how subtle it is. guess my question was answered, sorry if i appear to be an idiot, but i did search both the gallery, and the forums for blue white and i just really couldn't tell it being different from columus white (i know i'm misspelling that) and i was curious as to whether or not it is a noticeable difference hence the start of this thread. it is a noticeable difference IF you know what to look for. my question has been asnwered, lets just kill this thread and move on to the whose bus has the closest resemblance to sealing wax red or, the one i really like (cause it happened to a friend) who got the RIGHT anthracite mixture (not the purple tinted one), or which dove blue is correct. all these paints have there variations throughout the years and all are mixed way different than the factory even mixed them, which is why i asked the question is it a noticeable light blue? i was thinking something like this:

and thought, oh, i kinda like that color combo, but it justt doesn't quite look right based on the representation that is on the sight and it isn't exactly a blue/white looking color so i'll ask fellow sambanistas if they have pics of there L289 painted bus to compare it to.

thanks for the few pics that were posted.
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[Ragtop]

Here's another link that covers blue/white. Don't know if it will help with what your asking for



http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=207925&highlight=blue+white

[i_am_cool_fred]

[EverettB]

Blue-White definitely has a tiny to it but sometimes you can only see it in a certain light.

Bright sunlight makes it appear off-white instead of with a greenish tint.

I don't think photos capture it very well.

Different color but Beige Grey looks a lot more white in the bright sunlight too, but here's a photo in my garage against a piece of paper
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=226318
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[cdennisg]

Here's a blue/white 65 that has original paint. The first picture almost shows you the greenish tint. The bus had been in a barn for 14 years and was covered with dust. I don't have a pic handy of the paint after it wash washed, sorry.

Blue white is a surprising color. When paired next to velvet green, it looks very green, but the same paint against sea blue, appears more blue. When it's old and sun faded, it tends to look more like just white.
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[Clara]

The various light colors may all look like 'white', but if you have a collection of overhead vent plates of various whites, right next to each other, it is really clear that the whites are not all the same.

Blue white has a tint of blue or green to it, and is a cool white.
Cumulous white is warmer.
Pearl white is warmer than cumoulous white.
Beige grey has more red in it.

I saw a 65 sea blue/ blue white dormy westy at a show a few years ago. Here is a pic before it got a wash or buffed out.
The angle of the pic really helps wash out the color:

When I got this bus it had a pair of chaulky doveblue cargo doors.
Here I had washed the bus and replaced the rear cargo door with a cumulous white/sea blue cargo door.
The white on the rear cargo door is warmer than the white on the bus.

Later found a pair of sea blue/ bw cargo doors. Also spent some time buffing the paint on this westy. Removing the chaukiness from the white reveals more of the tint.
Check out the difference between the bw nose and the silver white emblem.
the bus on the left is og paint SWR/ BG. the beige grey is not the same as bluewhite.

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OG Sea Blue/ Blue White with a OG color respray

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[dkmullen]

The white snow in this picture shows how blue blauweiss can be!

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[dkmullen]

A related question: What "flavor" of white are the bumpers and wheels supposed to be? I believe mine has OG paint all around and the bumpers and wheels look more like a plain or standard white. I'm tempted to respray the bumpers and maybe the wheels.
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[kafer60]

Take a look at my thread
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=428796&highlight=
You will see the color decal is there and if you look at the nose after cleaing the og blue white is there.
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[JimJonkers]

My sea blue/blue white decal got shot in the blasting process...is there anywhere i can buy a replica?