If you acquired that locally, I may know the previous owners.There can't be that many local metal flake dark green over yellow Super Beetles. Did it have aluminum rims when you received it?
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/vintagvw/topics> > Google > Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > Topic digest > View all topics > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/vintagvw/topics> > > - Color matching <#150b44e68473e5ba_group_thread_0> - 10 Updates > > Color matching > <http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw/t/bcf6c7b0e433b29a?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > Eric <[email protected]>: Oct 28 02:35PM -0400 > > Hey Burt, > If you want a fantastic yellow instead of the pale, blah yellows, try > Rallye Yellow 1974 Super. Beetle color. It will turn heads for sure. If > interested I'll send you a pic. Do some homework you'll be happy! > Eric > > Sent from my iPhone > > Mike Morehouse <[email protected]>: Oct 28 01:36PM -0500 > > Bert, > My 1972 Bug is Texas Yellow 10B and when I had it painted in 99 I was able > to find very close color match from an automotive paint store. I may have > the receipt at home so I'll look later tonight when i get home from church. > FYI, I've got my Bug for sale on The Samba. > Mike Morehouse > > "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]>: Oct 28 01:57PM -0500 > > Eric, > > > > Thanks. Good advice, but I’m getting this one up for resale only. I don’t > plan to keep it. I’ll let the new owner do the customizing. For now just > putting together a good, sound, safe car. > > > > Bert > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Eric > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 1:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > > > Hey Burt, > > If you want a fantastic yellow instead of the pale, blah yellows, try > Rallye Yellow 1974 Super. Beetle color. It will turn heads for sure. If > interested I'll send you a pic. Do some homework you'll be happy! > > Eric > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:30 PM, "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Volks, > > > > I need some paint help. I’m having a 1972 SuperBeetle repainted using the > original L10B (08) Texas Yellow. I thought. > > > > My friendly neighborhood paint show says it’s a nonexistent color, > according to their Sherwin-Williams computer. They offered several other > yellows, none a very good match. “Well, if you can get me the mix code for > Sherwin-Williams, I’ll do it. But your VW Texas Yellow just ain’t in the > computer.” > > > > Anybody here know how to give a color code to a guy with a > Sherwin-Williams mixing rig if he can’t use the VW paint number? > > > > Bert Knupp > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > Kirin Jacobsen <[email protected]>: Oct 28 11:59AM -0700 > > I don't know what paint/ parts places are around you Bert. But in Canada > one of the main FLAPS(Lordco) they can come out and scan the colour of your > car and make paint to match it. Surely someone in your area might have > that? Sorry I can't be of more help. > > "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]>: Oct 28 01:30PM -0500 > > Volks, > > > > I need some paint help. I'm having a 1972 SuperBeetle repainted using the > original L10B (08) Texas Yellow. I thought. > > > > My friendly neighborhood paint show says it's a nonexistent color, > according > to their Sherwin-Williams computer. They offered several other yellows, > none > a very good match. "Well, if you can get me the mix code for > Sherwin-Williams, I'll do it. But your VW Texas Yellow just ain't in the > computer." > > > > Anybody here know how to give a color code to a guy with a Sherwin-Williams > mixing rig if he can't use the VW paint number? > > > > Bert Knupp > "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]>: Oct 28 02:04PM -0500 > > Hi, Kirin, > > Sadly, a previous owner had slathered some dark green metallic all over > (trapping lots of rust underneath) so I’m returning it to original stock. > There’s some old yellow still showing (interior, trunk, engine compartment) > but it’s in poor shape. I’ve sanded it very clean and having it done at a > neighborhood Maaco (the heir to old Earl Scheib, who ran a chain of > “broom-and-a-bucket” paint shops for decades in the US). > > Bert > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Kirin Jacobsen > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > I don't know what paint/ parts places are around you Bert. But in Canada > one of the main FLAPS(Lordco) they can come out and scan the colour of your > car and make paint to match it. Surely someone in your area might have > that? Sorry I can't be of more help. > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Bert Knupp <[email protected]> > wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks. Good advice, but I’m getting this one up for resale only. I don’t > plan to keep it. I’ll let the new owner do the customizing. For now just > putting together a good, sound, safe car. > > Bert > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Eric > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 1:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > Hey Burt, > If you want a fantastic yellow instead of the pale, blah yellows, try > Rallye Yellow 1974 Super. Beetle color. It will turn heads for sure. If > interested I'll send you a pic. Do some homework you'll be happy! > Eric > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:30 PM, "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]> wrote: > Volks, > > I need some paint help. I’m having a 1972 SuperBeetle repainted using the > original L10B (08) Texas Yellow. I thought. > > My friendly neighborhood paint show says it’s a nonexistent color, > according to their Sherwin-Williams computer. They offered several other > yellows, none a very good match. “Well, if you can get me the mix code for > Sherwin-Williams, I’ll do it. But your VW Texas Yellow just ain’t in the > computer.” > > Anybody here know how to give a color code to a guy with a > Sherwin-Williams mixing rig if he can’t use the VW paint number? > > Bert Knupp > -- > "Dave C. Bolen" <[email protected]>: Oct 28 02:56PM -0500 > > "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]>: Oct 28 04:57PM -0500 > > Thanks everyone who helped out with the paint color matching, > > It is odd that Sherwin-Williams doesn't even recognize VW L10B Texas > Yellow, but fortunately some other suppliers do. As Dave suggested, I > checked paintref.com online and found the equivalent color code from four > other paint manufacturers and gave those to my Maaco shop. He was able to > cross-match with DuPont and Ditzler-PPG's spec and get the mixing code. > > The main reason I was looking for a factory color was for simplicity: the > inside of the trunk, engine compartment, door jams etc. will be an easy > match. A complete color change adds to the complexity. > > Thanks for the advice, y'all. What a group! > > Bert Knupp in Music City USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dave C. Bolen > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > Bert, > > Go to a real automotive paint store? When I bought scratch fix paints for > my 78 champagne edition on line, they were just listed on their > site...exactly as the color codes said. > > (real answer is at the bottom) > > When the bus was repainted in the original colors, nobody even blinked > twice at the colors and they matched the originals perfectly. > > Hmm....something else may be going on here. > At this site: > http://www.automotivetouchup.com/touch-up-paint/volkswagen/ > > I looked at 70-73 and saw no color of texas yellow at all. So I checked to > make sure they had the correct colors for my 78 Champagne, and they were > there. One even had the german spelling, but not the english). > > Interesting....so Wolfsburg west says it is a real color. > > Call around to different automotive paint stores! > > Oh, here is what you want! > > > http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Volkswagen&model=Beetle&year=1972 > > Dupont and others reference codes for that color. > > BTW, I did sell my bus! > > Cheers, dave > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Bert Knupp wrote: > > Mike Morehouse <[email protected]>: Oct 29 07:05AM -0500 > > Bert and others, > > Here is a PDF scan of the paint sheet I got from my auto paint store back > in 1999 for my Texas Yellow Bug. Maybe this will help as it was identical > to original color when my Bug was painted. > > Regards, > Mike Morehouse > > "Bert Knupp" <[email protected]>: Oct 29 10:19AM -0500 > > Mike, > > Thanks a lot! I’ve given it to my paint shop. He said, “Okay, this’ll do > it.” Q.e.d. > > > > Bert > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike Morehouse > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:06 AM > To: VintagVW > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > > > Bert and others, > > > > Here is a PDF scan of the paint sheet I got from my auto paint store back > in 1999 for my Texas Yellow Bug. Maybe this will help as it was identical > to original color when my Bug was painted. > > > > Regards, > > Mike Morehouse > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Bert Knupp <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks everyone who helped out with the paint color matching, > > It is odd that Sherwin-Williams doesn't even recognize VW L10B Texas > Yellow, but fortunately some other suppliers do. As Dave suggested, I > checked paintref.com online and found the equivalent color code from four > other paint manufacturers and gave those to my Maaco shop. He was able to > cross-match with DuPont and Ditzler-PPG's spec and get the mixing code. > > The main reason I was looking for a factory color was for simplicity: the > inside of the trunk, engine compartment, door jams etc. will be an easy > match. A complete color change adds to the complexity. > > Thanks for the advice, y'all. What a group! > > Bert Knupp in Music City USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dave C. Bolen > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Color matching > > Bert, > > Go to a real automotive paint store? When I bought scratch fix paints for > my 78 champagne edition on line, they were just listed on their > site...exactly as the color codes said. > > (real answer is at the bottom) > > When the bus was repainted in the original colors, nobody even blinked > twice at the colors and they matched the originals perfectly. > > Hmm....something else may be going on here. > At this site: > http://www.automotivetouchup.com/touch-up-paint/volkswagen/ > > I looked at 70-73 and saw no color of texas yellow at all. So I checked to > make sure they had the correct colors for my 78 Champagne, and they were > there. One even had the german spelling, but not the english). > > Interesting....so Wolfsburg west says it is a real color. > > Call around to different automotive paint stores! > > Oh, here is what you want! > > http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Volkswagen < > http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Volkswagen&model=Beetle&year=1972> > &model=Beetle&year=1972 > > Dupont and others reference codes for that color. > > BTW, I did sell my bus! > > Cheers, dave > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Bert Knupp wrote: > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <mailto: > vintagvw%[email protected]> . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > Back to top <#150b44e68473e5ba_digest_top> > You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this > group. 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