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 GKW-405
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 05:18 PM |
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Interesting Paint Colour Question
Ive always wondered about the colour sticker on our orange type 3 saying Kalahari Tan when the colour is far from anywhere near Tan. We now think the
colour sticker may have been mistakenly put on our car….but in lieu of which correct colour? In the US this is Clementine Orange…anyone know what it
was called in Australia?
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 05:27 PM |
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Hi
I believe that is the correct colour sticker and Volkswagen Australasia didn't have any Real Orange colors that I can remember..
I believe We had different paint colours to any other country..
so German or USA paint colours would be different.. to Aussie painted cars..
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 05:40 PM |
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Does that mean Lee that the sticker was added to a German import for the sake of it, but in actual fact the sticker is for another colour in the
Australian colour range, but this orange is not that colour? It just doesn't make sense that a sunburnt orange could be called Tan? This is the
original colour orange of the car as
imported from Germany.
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 06:05 PM |
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Kalahari Tan was a colour shared with Datsun of the same era. Datsun and VW's were coming out of the same building in Clayton in the 1970's.
Kalahari Tan was a burnt orange colour. The sticker is correct for your car.
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GKW-405
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 06:12 PM |
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Thanks Gruven...
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| posted on September 22nd, 2018 at 07:12 PM |
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I know this is an old thread but I have a 1970 orange squareback and the colour is Clementine. I also see the colour code is slightly different to
Kalahari tan so they obviously painted both colours in Oz
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| posted on September 24th, 2018 at 07:43 AM |
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They also had Riverine Orange on 75 n 76 Cars
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| posted on September 24th, 2018 at 09:09 PM |
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paint
straight from google
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| posted on September 28th, 2018 at 06:33 PM |
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The paint code on my 74 L Bug mmmmm? Obviously reattached (not very well) Taubmans not Dulon (Dulux)
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| posted on October 11th, 2018 at 10:51 PM |
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Clementine was a darker fuller colour quite different to Kalahari Tan. Clementine originated in Europe as a special enhanced safety colour on the VW
safety vehicle program. Look it up.
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