Glasurit Paint Chipsby Richard Atwell |
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Are you repainting your VW? Are you tired of looking at scans of tiny paint chips on your monitor or those HTML web color approximations? Here are some large photos from a Glasuit Paint Chip book from the mid 80's. If the factory painted your VW, chances are the paint came from Glasurit. PPG and other companies have created formulas to mimic the original colors and they are generally pretty close.
As with any color you view on your computer, without color workflow calibration (from my camera to your monitor) there is no way you can be sure that a color that appeals to you will match the final sprayed product especially if you use an non-Glasurit paint (can't be helped). Also, keep in mind that even Glasurit samples are still samples and while very close to the actual paint, they are not 100% accurate.
The nice thing about these samples is that you get to see the colors relative to other colors you may have seen up close. This gives you a better idea of what the color will look like before it's sprayed. It also helps to compare colors within the same hue.
If you don't see the color you are interested in, I'm sorry but I don't have any more photos so please don't ask. There were about 40 pages of colors in that book mostly from the 70's and 80's but I only had time to snap photos of the 60's and 70's solid colors used by aircooled VWs.
How do you find out what color your bus was painted?
M-code paint and interior colors (Type2.com)
The color code is stamped on the m-plate. R1R1 for example is VW's code for pastel white. Why do the matching paint codes begin with L? L is short for Lacke which is German for lacquer (paint). L90D would be the Glasurit code for R1R1. Sometimes there is a silver sticker behind the front seat that gives the L-code and name of the paint used by the factory.
Note: several other sites have converted these German names into the English equivalents. See the References below until I have time to convert the names myself.
Click on the images to see 960x1280 versions of these pages.
atlasweiß L91Z orange L28N daphnegrün L45N grün L46Q grün L46M riffblau L52K schwarzblau L52M |
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L21Z tibetorange L30C malage L32Z koralle L50C lagunblau L51C miamiblau L54Y aquablau L62Y signalgrün |
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