MK1 Storm on Ebay

[ianaudia4]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-Mk ... 5657bc9118

I was looking at this earlier, a bit of a curious one as the seller states it is has a 4 speed box and is brown, I thought the Storm was the first of the MK1's to have the 5 speed box and the brown was from later MK1 Storms?

For £6500 you would want the real deal and no work to do!

[Nate]

Can't see the pics too well on my phone, but that seems stupidly strong money for something that he says "needs paint"

[Rich_Rocco]

seems like a bit of a dreamer really. ive seen far better examples go for far less money than that.

also Ian, my storm is a '79 and has a 4 speed box so 5 speed may have been optional

[mr.brown]

Was on for £8k a couple of weeks ago

http://www.sciroccoregisterforum.co.uk/ ... 16&t=15257

[mark1gls]

Not far from where I work, can say I've ever seen it on the road.

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

Hello!

The first 10 storms imported to the UK all ran 4 speed boxes.

I have 2 of them , would love to think the other 8 are still alive and kicking in some form.

According to the DVLA this one is in the ultra rare Black paint.

Both of mine pre-date this storm, so it is not the earliest storm around

KR

SSF

[ianaudia4]

Black? It says Brown in the advert!

[the edmundator]

Wasn't it called schwarzbraun? In which case both are correct.

[Ryan]

Do I spy brown bumpers?

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

Hello!

Mk 1 storm Paint colours :

1979...

Silbergrun ( Silver-Green metallic ) paint code L99N
Schwarz ( Black metallic ) paint code L98F

1980...

Noisette Brown ( Brown metallic ) paint code L89P
Hellblau ( Light-Blue metallic ) paint code LK5Z

( VW painted the MK 2 storms on variations of the above 1980 mk 1 storm paints as they had yielded the best sales of the mk 1 storm )

KR

SSF

[ianaudia4]

So should a1979 Storm be Brown?

[mark1gls]

So thats were brown bumpers come from!
http://sciroccoregisterforum.co.uk/carf ... 13&t=15351

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

So should a1979 Storm be Brown?

Hello!

Technically it could be either being requested / special order by the customer / dealer or depending on when it was registered.

I do know the Black ones are very very rare and it is such a shade of Black that can be mistaken for Brown or looks like a bad re-finishing job of brown. I would say you are more likely to find a Black V reg than a Brown V reg and it is 4 speed so one of the first 10 I would say it is Black.

Ask him to lift the front carpet and have a look I suppose, or take the dashboard out and see what one of the Karmann coach-building crew has scrawled what colour it should be behind the glovebox.

Again it could be what the DVLA person thought the colour was on registering EG :

I went to see a green storm once, colour on the logbook was Silver because the actual colour of the green storm is in fact Silver-Green.

KR

SSF

[mark83]

So thats were brown bumpers come from!
http://sciroccoregisterforum.co.uk/carf ... 13&t=15351

My colibri green gls has brown bumpers , that car is local to me never seen it around .

[mr.brown]

Schwarz ( Black metallic ) paint code L98F

The two of these that I had were far closer to brown than black. Unless you looked at them at night. In an underground car park with no lights.