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Do you mean 21 colours from the factory? I had a '71 Marina blue VW that appeared to be all original paint; I had it from 5 years old and the paint all matched even under sodium street lights, which usually shows up any mismatch. When it got older and got the odd paint chip to repair, the driver's door was found to have been Elm green originally. This was one of three '71 RHD Variants I had at one time (one was a donated parts car) that by chance had consecutive days of manufacture given on the production plate. It's scheduled date of manufacture was a day earlier than my Elm green one, but its chassis number was around 2000 later, suggesting that it had suffered a problem between body production and final assembly - maybe a major paint defect. Could this explain the repainted door? Once reflatted and primed, there wouldn't be much point in worrying which colour it had been originally. With 21 colours (some primers?), yours was a very unlucky car indeed! They would all need to be contemporary colours though. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/