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on 17/10/2002 8:41 AM, Dave Hall at dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk wrote: > 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. What would happen if a customer would go there on the tourist delivery program and ask for a particular colour? Did they repaint a complete car, or did the customer wait for one to be built? Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/