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 blup58
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| posted on February 6th, 2004 at 01:42 PM |
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Need help choosing a colour
G'day Guys and Girls
I'm in a bit of a dilemma, I need to decide on colour for my 57 beetle.
Refer attached images. I've also included a couple of pictures of seat colour and powdercoating colour for reference. Seats could be coloured
differently but only to another dark colour. Powdercoating I'm stuck with.
I welcome all suggestions as I'm struggling to make up my mind, thought maybe someone out there might have a really cool colour that I
haven't thought of but may not ever get the chance to do themselves.
The colours I'm leaning towards are:
- Dove Blue;
- Black;
- Martini Mica (Current holden commmodore colour, looks great during the day but not so good at night or when dirty)
Cheers
Brad
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blup58
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| posted on February 6th, 2004 at 01:46 PM |
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Also forgot to mention all my guages are carbon fibre (in case any one out there with colour sense thinks this will make any difference) and the
colour test sample on the fender in the above piccies is the Martini Mica
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mattie
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| posted on February 6th, 2004 at 06:33 PM |
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do it vw bahama blue l18 i think or that new ford grey they use it on the new ba its call either"lightining strike" or "mercury
silver" but im preety sure its lightining strike
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
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56astro
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| posted on February 6th, 2004 at 07:44 PM |
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One of the new ford colours looks very similar to VW/Porsche Polar Silver.
I reckon a beetle would look nice in that colour. :thumb
Anthricite is another cool colour - I think Dasdubber's car is done in it.
VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
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mattie
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| posted on February 7th, 2004 at 02:35 PM |
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oh and nissan smokey quartz grey
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
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 helbus
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| posted on February 14th, 2004 at 12:01 PM |
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Did you try this site?
http://www.busselecta.com/bugselecta/
We used it to help decide how we wanted to paint our beetle. :thumb
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68AutoBug
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 posted on February 14th, 2004 at 03:01 PM |
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White-Silver Metallic paint...
I like white beetles... and silver beetles & those guards look OK... Older Beetles look great in most Metallic colours as We never had them
originally... they were available elsewhere though... My beetle is painted Mitsubishi silver grey.... Remember lighter colours are safer &
cooler in the summer..
Lee
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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 07:34 AM |
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dude hit it with bleu de chine its a wicked blue with a heap of light blue pearl in it , against the chome it it rocks!!!....... its a peugoet
colour, codes EGU i think...
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