Wilsons Sandbox

Many paint stores in the US now have color analysis equipment which will
allow them to formulate a paint to match a painted sample. If you have an
undamaged original piece (such as a battery-box or tool-box lid) to take
with you , they may be able to help.
Regards,
Carl Ftitz

Be wary of the machines, aka "the Prophet". Sometimes they are spot-on, other times it is laughable. Don't accept the
code results unless you are pleased with the results. A lot of paint mixers rely on then too heavily and are so
color-blind, they should be on OUR side of the counter.

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Cheers....Andy B.
Bradley Restoration

Andy, your point is well taken! However, let's remember that there obviously
was quite a bit of variation from car to car in "original" colors of such
things as fire-walls, accessories, engines, and other non-external-body
parts. At least with a local store, you're not paying outlandish prices, and
if the result on a trial piece doesn't suit you, you can always take it back
for a little "shot" to adjst the color.
Regards, Carl Fritz

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>Many paint stores in the US now have color analysis equipment which will

allow them to formulate a paint to match a painted sample. If you have an
undamaged original piece (such as a battery-box or tool-box lid) to take
with you , they may be able to help.<

Carl,

OK Yes, a solution to recent paints, but any paint of the age we are
talking
about will by now have oxidised to its full depth and have suffered some
colour
change. As the list has illustrated many times before. For example, the
original
base layer of my originally gunmetal grey metalic finish on the TB was
deeper
or lighter shades of green everywhereon the car when I carefully sanded
down
to it!!!

So-
1. On body colours we can be reasonably precice due to the chemical
composition
being defined originally and thus is recreatable.

2. Finishes for bulkheads, engines, bought in parts etc.,will always remain
undefined in this period, because they used anything they could get their
hands
on at the time and we cant retrospectively do a colour analysis now.

Ain't much more to say on this one.

Clive

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Clive Sherriff