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Subject:Re: Need paint color! Thanks
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:12:50 -0800

Pretty sure that's LH1V Ben - the Bronze Beige Metallic is the darker brown
metallic colour used on the '85 & '86 Weekenders.

You can see the colours better here:
http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1986-volkswagen-pg01.jpg

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Benny boy <huotb@videotron.ca> wrote:

> Bonjour, i'm doing a 86 camper, the color is gold....
> http://www.benplace.com/rejean/rejean9.jpg
> No paint code in it, i never did that color.
> By that site:
> http://www.gti16v.com/vwcc1986.htm#vwcc1986
>
> my best bet is:
> LH1V or LHU8
>
> But it really look like Gold???
>
> I wonder if any of you could confirm that code, someone must have a van
> with
> that color
> Here another picture i found (well, it look more gold than that???:
> http://images.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/pix/2213477.jpg
>
> Thanks,if you can p-mail me.
>
> The color code of your van is under the fuse box, well under the frame,
> it's
> a white sticker:
> http://www.benplace.com/rejean/rejean8.jpg
> (left of steering column)
>
> Benny
> http://www.benplace.com/
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
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