In a colour palette dominated by black and dark greys one of the first vw white available was ivory l 62 which was available at the start of the 50s firstly on vw buses.
Vw bay window paint colours.
Pearl white l 87 followed from 1957 below and parchment white l 81 came along soon after.
Although many vw campers started out all white and the conversion companies devon dormobile etc resprayed the bottom half the colour the customer chose orange was obviously a very popular colour in the 1970 s there were many factory colour options too.
L581 cloud white optional contrasting roof aug 1968 july 1969 t2 bay window bus.
Includes type 1 beetle ghia 181 type 2 split bay van type 3 variant paint codes data primarily sourced from our vw dealership manuals additional data from open internet sources to 1967 t2 indicates parts manual to 1967 for a type2 van.
Vw history 1930 s 1945 the peoples car hitler and porsche vw history 1945 1985 after the war major ivan hirst.
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You ll find that glasurit sherwin williams sikkens ditzler ppg dupont and most of the other popular brands of automotive paint already have formulas for most of volkswagen s original colors see a complete list of.
The colors on these busses are actually standardcolors but are indicated by a special code.
Vw colors colours volkswagen paint chips color codes aircooled volkswagens beetles kaefers coachbuilts hebmullers rometsch.
For each color i listed two different types of codes.
041 4015 41 845 9000 9001 9003 9007 9010 9012 a1 a1a1 a1sl a1sm a2 l041 l845.
This is the code as it is printed on the m plate.
0a 0a0a 0asl 0asm b5k lb5k oa oaoa.
T2 bay window paint codes what colour is my vw.
It s not clear why vw used special paint codes for westfalia campmobiles.
04 0k1 0r 0r0r 4 9099 l0k1 or.
In this video i will be taking you through some prep work and also the repaint of this volkswagon bay window camper van in 2k gloss colour using my iwata w.
The first one is the plate code.