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> L20C Nepal Orange, Paint Issues
CWA
post Mar 26 2008, 04:13 PM
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Hey guys (:

I'm new to this forum, and i shall confess i am not a huge fan of 914's as of yet..
but before you click Back or slate me, i'm just wondering if any of you can help me with a query i have.

I own a VW Beetle and as i understand relations between the VW and Porsche communities arent too bad! So here goes..

I recently purchased my 1975 Bug, and with it only having 63k miles on the clock, and with only two previous owners i thought this was a pretty good find. the second owners told me that it was all stock and it had never been modified or restored. They had owned it for 5 years, and were under the impression that the first owner (having owned it for the other many years of its life from new) had not restored/resprayed or modified it either.
Upon my purchase of it, my uncle - a professional car painter dude who specialises with vdubs said that all panels look original and the paint does too..

So i did some research into my car, am now thinking she's a real gem of a find for only 2k.. and find out that she is a "sunbug". im hoping some of you who read this will know a fair amount about beetle's too.. basically she has a sunroof and came with the GT wheels as stock.. but my impression was that all sunbugs were a golden/brownish colour? My issue now is that the car is actually painted in L20C Nepal Orange.

I've not heard of any other sunbugs being produced by VW in this colour, and then i found out that Porsche 914's were made stock in this colour (i think..).
So basically i am wondering if VW actually made "sunbugs" with this colour too from the factory, or whether it was exclusive to the P914..

I'm essentially trying to find out whether i have a sunbug that was reprayed very early on in its life (very well!), or whether my bug is actually not a sunbug, but does have its original Nepal Orange paint. I hope i explained my situation well enough!

I any of you guys here can shed some light I would be very grateful. If i'm allowed to (?) and if i figure out how I could get a pic up on here too..

Cheers..

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