any sites or info is welcome, looking for paint and codes and some examples of colours even for 50s beetles...

Have a look on http://www.clubvw.org.au.....  I have most of them on a origional paint chip book.

I think Jens58 put a post the other day that listed and showed the colours but it was American.,.. still good to look at.

Sam what colour are you after ??

Here's a page with lot5s of VW colour links

http://home.earthlink.net/~hootowls/#Links

Have fun choosing :thumb

Wish I had a book to look at...where can you get one...are they hard to find Dave? Hmmm, an original paint chip book...haven't come across one yet on auction sites...

Yes Jen very hard to find, the old paint producers use to put out a new page each year, it had a small colour chip for each make of vehicle.

Have a look at you local paint n panel shop they may have the old books laying around.

Cool:thumb

I've been a bit worried about the colour reproduction in VW books and online...I've only been given new colours to look at from the workshop Bel is at but they do the old VW colours if I get the code I want...

Dave is there a blue that is a bit more mauve than Gulf Blue?....In the books the colour I like has a hint of mauve...but then the Gulf Blue looks the same when I put them together...

Saw a very nice Gulf Blue beetle at Volkscare yesterday

Dont know about a bit more Mauve

Your better off looking at the new paint chips a the panel shop they can mix any colour you want just keep the formular in case you have to touch it up.

It wont be a genuine VW colour but thats not what you want anyway.

i would just like to know wat colours were used on beetles from say 49-59, to help me make a decision on wat colour to paint my car

So are you trying to go 100% restoration ??? including all the trimmings !!!

good on you if you are. Bloody hard nowdays but go for it Sam.

Have a look at Jens web page its a pretty good guide

In the early days there was only 5 or 6 colours for each year