Hi All,

I need some help!

About to repaint the '54/5 Beetle in factory black; the problem is I am wanting to reproduce the find actual paint colour used on the sides that was applied after it was imported to Australia. It was resprayed later in life to a non-correct grey, thus there is no remnants of the old colour on the body to match

The below link has the paint colour L23 Silver Grey on the chart

http://www.pre67vw.com/colours/default.aspx?cg=4 

My problem is the painter cannot locate any information on the mix to produce this colour, as he has been told records no longer exist. Yes there is a paint chip on the chart but accuracy is a question to match to a screen or print out.

I believe it was a Balmer's colour, which was taken over by Duco Dulux.

Anyone go any ideas on where to find the require information??

Cheers

Craig

Hopefully, someone on here has the info??
Yes probably BALM paints ??

and later Beetles were DULUX...

but now You would probably need a sample of the colour..
and that is going to be difficult after all those years..

Black was an odd colour for a VW in Australia..
I only know or have seen two VWs that were black..
[from memory?]
a 64-67 beetle that belonged to a VW dealer in Gloucester NSW and His brother [VW Mechanic] had a black type 3 Fastback...

Phil may know how to get the colour??

I thought You were looking for BLACK not silver grey???

Best of Luck

LEE

My beetle is Mitsubishi silver grey metallic.. lol how different..?

Thanks Lee.

The car was factory black, and had the addition of the grey sides when delivered in Australia I believe (before my father purchased it). This is my intention to repaint it the same

I was hoping for some semblance of the old colour to be discovered when I stripped it but alas nothing!

Cheers

Craig

Here is a link to Aussie VW colours.

If it was painted at the VW dealer it could be a VW colour but if it was done some where else the grey could be anything.

http://www.clubvw.org.au/vwpaint 

Try Alec at Ringwood paints, he has a lot of the codes on file

Eastern Auto Paints have BALM colour chips for a lot of Aussie assembled cars.

Thanks guys, two leads to follow up!

No love with the follow up, it appears that unless someone has this colour on their car there is no way of detemining the constituents as there are no records from that far back for this Balm paint colour..

Anyone out there with what they think is the colour on their car, especially if you are Victorian based? A direct match seems to be the only likely scenario...

Hi Craig I have an old Spartan paints catalogue unfortunately it doesn't start until 59 but it has black listed with a code of 7885,I would assume that that was the original BALM code and may be the one that you are looking for. During my years working on these the only car with a factory black that I can remember belonged to Duncan Dark who had it on display at the Auto museum in Forster when it closed down and the vehicles sold off.From memory it was a 56 model. I hope this helps. Cheers Les