The dash in my -6 was blue. The one in the off-road car is green.

Anybody have insight as to how and why the dashes all have different colors?

If you mean under-dash, I think they just used whatever paint was left over in the guns since it was out-of-sight.

or pre-painted and the car got what was next in line. i've seen lots of dif colored dashes on cars i've parted out.

VW did it just to f... with our head 40 years later.

All seven of my cars had a dash frame that was a different color. Wonder if we'll ever know why.

I thought I was dealing with a wrecked car & replacement dash when I stripped my '70 six years ago and found a blood orange dash on a white car. I had no idea this was a common occurrence. Boy do I feel better now.

Thanks Eric!

Damned happy to help.

To much of this in the 60-70's

They were painted with whatever color was left in the paint guns at the end of the day, then thrown on a big pile.

The guys in the assembly line just picked whatever was on top of the pile ...

"Always" just seems a bit overstated.

This is in my shop right now.
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Thought that someone messed themselves up pretty good in my yellow car when I found the dash painted orange.

so , does this mean my car is extra- rare since my dash is the same color?

OK... 99.9% of the time.



Answer or guess?

The facia is always usually painted black. why not just squirt them all black?

So i was told by someone who used to work there at the time ...

the factory replacement dashes are painted all Black, I have had 2 of them, still have one..

A better and more educated idea of what I said.
Hey Eric. Is there an actual thread on the new project that I missed? Or is it bits and pieces of teases?

If I have one with yellow overspray, does it make me faster?

exactly!....Who cares?...as long as the rust is inhibited
(just a guess...lol)