Which yellow is this?
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hard to say when its not in natural daylight. here is a detail pic of a true golf CSL that now lives in texas
dj_efk
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No paint sticker under the bonnet (hood)? I note from your intro thread you’re not sure if the car should be Polaris as the repaint in yellow was done so well - If whoever did the job was REALLY thorough they would have changed this sticker.
Check code on Karmann plate in drivers door jamb.
When you introduced yourself in the other thread my initial impression was your car looked darker than Golf.
Does Golf have a hint of green? I guess it's too hard to tell from digital images.
Does that car have a clear coat or an awesome wax job? I thought Golf circa 1970's was basecoat lacquer from Glasurit. Either way that paint looks beautiful. I'm going to an automotive paint store tomorrow to have them mix a can of Golf and another of Dakar using Glasurite's formulas and their paint if they have it. I'll just paint a few squares over the old paint. I think that might indicate if mine is Golf or not. I just want to know more about it before I go and strip off 47 year old paint that can't be replaced. Thanks for the help.
Sometimes I also think it's darker or more yellow than golf, but it depends on which image I compare it to. The paint was also badly faded when I got it. What you see in the image above is after a few mediocre attempts at polishing it. I might need to color sand and properly polish it to get the true color back. It's lacquer paint so the original color should come back with a bit more work.
Wladek
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Both Golf & Dakar are pastel yellow's, your's is regular yellow.
As for me it's custom paint, your car have some stripes, so maybe someone also changed paintjob?
Take a look at your Karmann plate code numbers on drivers side A-Pillar between upper & lower door hinges.
As for me it's custom paint, your car have some stripes, so maybe someone also changed paintjob?
Take a look at your Karmann plate code numbers on drivers side A-Pillar between upper & lower door hinges.
A minor correction to the above: according to the guy mixing my Golf paint at the auto paint store, BMW paints circa 1978 (and probably 72 as well) were enamel not lacquer. Only MG and a select few still used lacquer at that time.
yes - back in the day, golf was known as 'snot' yellow (or green). look at the pic of the trunk above, there is a green flop to the yellow. no idea if there was a clearcoat over the golf paint. i don't think golf was a metallic color and as i remember, only metallics might have had clearcoat
Golf was a single stage paint, metallics were two stage. I think your coupe currently is Golf as well.
It doesn't look like Golf or at least correct Golf. Golf definitely has a green tint and my 73 Golf tii in my garage looks yellow from some angles and green from others.
Yeah. The spray can of Golf that I had mixed looks just like snot. My paint looks a bit like snot too, but it depends on the lighting. The AZ sun might have dried up some of the snot.
As for base vs base-clear, I think you are right that only the metallics were a 2 stage paint (base-clear). Glasurit shows 060 (Polaris) as a 2 stage process -only- and 070 (Golf) as either single or 2 stage. But in the 1970s I think 070 was strictly single stage.
Anyway, Ive seen a lot of cars with color changes here so maybe I'll just leave the Golfish yellow or even repaint with a fresh coat of snot. Seems that I won't raise too many eyebrows, so long as I don't go with a pinkish chrome wrap and fake Alpina badges. Thanks for the input.
(There's a pinkish-chrome wrapped M3 in my neighborhood -to each his own I guess)
Yeah, mine is yellow at some angles and yellow-green at others. I know it's not factory paint but its been yellow much longer than Polaris, since before the 80's according to previous owners. Just debating if I should keep the yellow or not. Being Golf rather than Dakar leans me towards keeping it as is.
Agreed.