Original paint code

[Saraj]

Hello,

I need to buy some paint for my wheels and bumpers and want to make sure they are the correct shade.

I've done a search on this and also looked at the list on the samba but I still can't work out what the original colours for my van were.

it's a 68 and from the m-plate looks like it was built at the end of march 68.

I know it was originally blue with a white roof but the code on my M-plate doesn't seem to appear on any of the lists I've found.

The code I have is 5225

Does anyone know which of the whites this would have had?

Thanks

Sarah

 

[Graham L]

Sarah

I think some paint codes have more digits than that, mine has 6 digits 523907 which I think I'm correct in saying is Pearl White, these codes started with 521 - 526 and then 3 digits after for special paint jobs. Your 522 looks like the start of one of these codes, there are 3 colours that could start 5225 but these are all blues.

I'm using the VW spec guide 67-79.

If you have any other info let me know and I'll have a look

 

[Saraj]

Hi Graham,

That whole line of the M-plate reads:

UD 2211 522552 then the chassis number

I know the UD is the delivery destination = USA - Philadelphia/Baltimore

the 2211 is the model code = Microbus

From what I've read in my book (the same as yours I think) the next 4 digits indicate the paint colours and the final 2 of the group of 6 for the interior colour and material

Thanks for you help.

 

[Graham L]

Sarah

Your M plate is laid out differently to mine as its a 68 -69 bus but all of my PPPPUU seems to be taken up with the paint code only which was a Westfalia Special Paint colour (according to the book)

Any one else help on this, Clem are you reading this?

 

[Saraj]

Anyone else got any pointers?

 

[Danbury Doug]

I've had another look in my book Sarah, but I'm no closer to finding a definite answer. I too was thinking along Graham's line that your code looks like the start of a special paint code. :?:

I'm still plumping for L581 Cloud White that I mentioned over on JK.

 

[sam@bugeyeddesigns]

Looks like the same paint code as mine.
Neptune blue (L50K) with a cloud white (L 581) roof.

:mrgreen:

 

[58herbie]

the nearest i have come to finding out is this found on type 2 .com.

523552 L50K neptunblau neptune blue code for Westfalia campmobiles (type 23).

and as Danbury Doug says Cloud white roof, was your bus originally destined to be a tintop campmobile..

 

[Saraj]

Looks like the same paint code as mine.
Neptune blue (L50K) with a cloud white (L 581) roof.

:mrgreen:

Excellent

Thank you vey much

Unfortunately there's no sticker in Hank, I guess someone peeled it off many moons ago as there isn't any trace of it.

 

[Saraj]

the nearest i have come to finding out is this found on type 2 .com.

523552 L50K neptunblau neptune blue code for Westfalia campmobiles (type 23).

and as Danbury Doug says Cloud white roof, was your bus originally destined to be a tintop campmobile..

I'm not sure what he was destined to be from the factory other than a microbus, He's got a westy bed and wardrobe in there now but it definately not from this van as it's got a 1970 label on it and the van doesn't have the proper fixings that a real westy would have.

 

[sam@bugeyeddesigns]

Excellent

Thank you vey much

Unfortunately there's no sticker in Hank, I guess someone peeled it off many moons ago as there isn't any trace of it.

No problem 8)