2002 Chamonix White

2002 Chamonix White, the factory white of a German 02 series coupe

The name Chamonix was carried by the white that the Munich brand offered at the time the two-door 2002 was being built. It is not the brightly cool white of today's cars: period white paints tend to have a warmer, slightly creamy shift, which shows on a model mainly next to white decals.

The car the shade comes from

The BMW 2002 belonged to the 02 series, the compact two-door cars built from the middle of the 1960s into the 1970s. The 2002 designation meant a two-liter four-cylinder in a two-door body, and it was this model that made the brand known as a maker of sports sedans. Its sharpest variant was the turbocharged version of the first half of the 1970s, one of the first European production cars with a turbocharger. The cars of the 02 series appeared on circuits and in rallies from the start, where a white body served as a ground under colored stripes and numbers.

Where the color is used

• bodies of German compacts of the turn of the 1960s and 1970s
• a base under period stripes in blue and red
• civilian cars for urban dioramas of that era
• cars with race numbers from club racing

Who the shade suits

It is for modelers who build European civilian cars and want a white with period character instead of a universal pure white. The factory name Chamonix stayed with the Munich brand for many years and was offered on later series as well, not only on the two-door 2002. The name of the shade refers to the factory name of the paint rather than to a number from an international standard, so it is not bound to any standard.