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post Sep 15 2006, 06:45 AM
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post Sep 15 2006, 06:55 AM
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QUOTE(davep @ Sep 14 2006, 10:57 PM) *

George, please get a photo of the Karmann badge. These oddballs we really need to document. Please provide the VIN and date code also.


Speaking of oddballs... I think we talked about this in a thread a year ago, but here is my mismarked Karmann badge...

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It is marked L63E (no such color?), but probably is L60E (Irish Green). PO had painted it a bronze color. I will be putting the car back to original color.

VIN: 4722916581 Manf date: 5/1972
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post Sep 15 2006, 07:46 AM
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Nice work Andy,

I have lots of VW (70's) paint stuff in my files that's not on my computer. PM me if you need something sent by snail mail.

Here's a few things on my computer if it helps.

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post Sep 15 2006, 02:41 PM
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QUOTE(robby750 @ Sep 15 2006, 05:16 AM) *

How do I add the color code info for my car?


find you VIN in the list and edit the details by clicking on your vin-number ...
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post Sep 19 2006, 09:24 PM
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QUOTE(Richard Casto @ Sep 15 2006, 04:55 AM) *

Speaking of oddballs... I think we talked about this in a thread a year ago, but here is my mismarked Karmann badge...It is marked L63E (no such color?)
VIN: 4722916581 Manf date: 5/1972


Actually, went back and checked my code book, and L63E is a valid code for Willow Green in 1972 (weidengrun) code 4310.
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post Sep 19 2006, 10:37 PM
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But the green pictured above certainly doesn't look like Willow Green (pictured below).
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QUOTE(davep @ Sep 19 2006, 11:24 PM) *

QUOTE(Richard Casto @ Sep 15 2006, 04:55 AM) *

Speaking of oddballs... I think we talked about this in a thread a year ago, but here is my mismarked Karmann badge...It is marked L63E (no such color?)
VIN: 4722916581 Manf date: 5/1972


Actually, went back and checked my code book, and L63E is a valid code for Willow Green in 1972 (weidengrun) code 4310.


Dave, thanks for digging into your documentation. I am really curious to see what the real story is. I really need to send off for the COA from Porsche to see what they say.

QUOTE(McMark @ Sep 20 2006, 12:37 AM) *

But the green pictured above certainly doesn't look like Willow Green (pictured below).
http://homepage.mac.com/markd/914/WillowGr...en_Medium_1.jpg


I generally agree that it looks more like Irish Green than Willow Green when you look at photos of cars. And when looking at color charts (such as Andy's new one), it seems like everyones charts are slightly different, so its hard to know what to believe. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) For example, Tom's scanned image of a 1972 color chart (a few posts above this) shows Irish Green being VERY VERY dark and Willow Green much darker than the car in Mark's photo and more in line with what mine looks like. But I can't believe that Irish Green really is that dark as photos of cars that are supposed to be Irish Green look more like my car.

Here is another photo of my car with a larger area. I think the photo reproduces the color pretty well (at least on my monitor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

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post Sep 20 2006, 12:38 PM
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that sure looks like Irish Green to me, and Mark's pic of willow is right on, from the willow car's i've seen in person.

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post Sep 20 2006, 01:51 PM
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I agree that the color looks too dark for Willow. However, that is exactly what the factory literature says. Perhaps I should scan the page so that you can read for yourselves. Perhaps that is the main reason I did not include the code in my list for so many years despite having the info available for the past 15 to 20 years. It is a similar situation with the two gold codes. Once we can get more definitive data we can nail them down. The L63E has to be rare, I only have Richard Casto's car with that code. I don't have a lot of data on L63K either, and all of them are earlier than Richard's VIN.

Let's beat the bushes for as much data as possible.
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