Original Light Ivory Color & Mix?, ...L80E, 11, 1110, etc......????? |
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914/4: 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 914/6: 70 71 72
Original Light Ivory Color & Mix?, ...L80E, 11, 1110, etc......????? |
Tom_T |
Nov 17 2009, 09:54 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,320 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Okay, so I want to take my early-73 914-2.0 (marketed in USA as a "914S" then) back to the original OE Light Ivory color, which I can still see under the floor mats, etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
The problem is, I'm seeing quite a range of this innocuous color on various 914s & 911s, ranging from a bright white to a more mellow off-white befitting the "light ivory" name, and I'm seeing color chart sample chips in that same range! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Then to compound that, the 73MY documents which I've found online call the color L80E in some places & 1110 in others, while my COA calls it only 11. Of course they also call my #31 Beige upholstery "black" - contrary to those documents' interior codes & even their own other COAs where black is #11! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) So does anybody have the proper L80E/1110/11 "Light Ivory" paint tint/color mix formula for a 1973 MY 914?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Here are a few examples from my research to illustrate my dilemma.... L80e chip from Wolfsburg West on 73 VW Conertible Bug: 72 914 Dealer Color Samples: 71 PPG VW Paint Color Chart with L80E: 74 914 Dealer Color Samples: 72 Porsche Dealer Color Codes - Paint & Interior: ...continued.... |
davep |
Jan 24 2010, 09:22 AM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,213 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada |
Paint colours on the internet are highly dependent on lighting, camera, and your computer screen. So much so that you can only use it as a guide, and nothing else. Something like L80E will look white. In person it should have a little warmth to it. BTW, the paint is actually a VW colour but it does cross over to Porsche. You have to be very careful wading through the various codes for the paints since there were many code series used. We should stay with just the codes stamped on the Karmann badge: L80E for the 914/4 and late 914/6 and 11 for the early 914/6. The marketing code of B7 was never stamped on a badge, and is probably not useful to a paint supplier.
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