0range Primer

I'm a bit behind with my reading - Practical Classics magazine have been working on a Bay as a give away - it's quite a late panel on a T or S plate.

They mention in one article that they stripped it back from its current red, back to blue, but then found 0range.

orange apparently is the primer or base coat for all these vans.

I've not heard anyone on here mention that, or seen evidence in pics.

Are they all 0range underneat?

 

Most of my bus was orange under several layers of paint when I bare metalled it. It was L90D from the factory so that could make sense.

 

Arent they all L90D on top when they are exported for 'Camper' conversions?
Also, that 0range, is it a top coat or a primer? I'm wondering if its an anti-corrosion layer.

 

Hard to say as it was under a lot of other layers of paint, but seemed to be an undercoat as it was quite chalky. L90D all over, not just top half.

 

Mine was orange underneath, only in some areas, I first thought it was donor parts off an 0range one,

 

Sage Green busses seemed to have a yellowy primer underneath.

 

My bug had orange then white I recall blue topcoat

 

It's not red lead is it?

 

Having sanded a few...
There's a dark grey something on the steel. Very difficult to remove.
Then undercoat
Then top coat.
Earlier didn't even get colour inside where you wouldn't see it.
I'm having trouble imagining VW would waste a single penny painting them twice.

 

I’d say the grey stuff is where they dipped the bodies before painting.

 

Correct, it’s whatever the bare metal was dipped in prior to paint. My neptune blue panel van has a grey/white primer under the og paint

 

On mine the orange was put on top of L90D original paint.

 

When I sanded mine back ('79) I thought it had once been o range.

Clears that one up

 

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