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Terry Phillips · Post by **Terry Phillips** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:19 pm

Can any one tell me where I can find the colour of the code 02 on my SA Early Bay.

Post by **fig** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:05 pm

If you find a source please let us all know. VWSA has no records.

Terry Phillips · Post by **Terry Phillips** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:54 pm

Oh dear well that will give me something to do in the house with all this rain.
Thanks Fig.

beetle786 · Post by **beetle786** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:56 pm

I have a beetle spec guide book the book's black with no writing on the cover , don't know if they used any of these colors on the bus .

There's a list of colors which tells you the color each model came with .

At the back of the book it has books you should look at including the bus .

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This is on the last page of my beetle spec guide book . Hope this helps .

Does anyone have a transporter spec guide like in my pic , if so the colour chart for the bus should be in there .

beetle786 · Post by **beetle786** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:11 pm

Here's a clear pic of some colors .

Post by **fig** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:05 pm

The VWSA colour palette was not the same as Germany or other markets. While some colours may have been similar, they were not the same.

beetle786 · Post by **beetle786** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:11 pm

Ok I didn't know that .

Post by **fig** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:12 pm

This question comes up regularly and no one has ever provided the info. I am very interested in the answers.

The only place I have seen SA colour info was on a SA Type 3 brochure (thanks jolas!). Does anyone have any old SA split or baywindow bus sales brochures with colour info? It seems SA sales brochures are as scarce aas definitive colour info. I've managed to buy more overseas brochures than the local brochures I've seen (none).

I recently met someone who claimed to have obsolete SA paint specs for all manufacturers, but he has yet to provide.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can source this info?

beetle786 · Post by **beetle786** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:21 pm

No I only got the US book.

Post by **retrovan** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:52 pm

As VW has always bought their paint from the local paint manufacturers, I have even asked them to look into their historical data, but with no luck.

Would seam that this type of info was not important to them at the time. Even they have dumped their old records.

Sorry, have also tried.

Herman

Terry Phillips · Post by **Terry Phillips** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:54 pm

Some useless information that most of you know,1959/60 the Kombis only came out in 2 tone in South Africa,so they say.
White over Red
Light Green over Dark Green
Grey Over Dark Blue

Post by **fig** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:33 pm

I believe that's correct except I think two-tone paint signified a Microbus, while Kombis were one colour with more rudimentary interiors.

The two-tone combinations you list were the first time VW bus colours in SA were different from German AFAIK. The earlier 59 Microbuses were seagull grey over mango green like the German assembled ones, possibly because all Microbuses were fully imported before 1960.

Kombis were assembled in SA since August 1955 and Microbuses from late 1959.

Terry Phillips · Post by **Terry Phillips** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:45 pm

Thanks Fig for putting more light on the subject,you must be a walking VW Air Cooled library ,you seem to have a lot of information stored up there very good to know.

Aircooled VW South Africa

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