[joestewart98023]

Need advice from.our experts.who should i now go to to get the best color match on my 56. It was stored in a garage tarped for 20 years with only 23 k on it and a bad engine
Estate sold it to a chevy guy.he put a nice crate 350 in it because the engine iof course was dead frozen and he didn't want to rebuild it unfortunatly for me
I got the car with 28k original.miles verified by notes etc in the car.
I got the automotive touch up companies product.
The color that needs it most is the base 700d which is a semi metallic kind of.has very even hard to see gold mettal flakes if you look real close
Thier product isn't a real.good match
.close but not goodvenough..is there any of the suppliers anyone knows of that could do a more exact Match.?? Called Sierra gold

 

[FUZZY]

I've got a formula for Valspar made from the original Ditzler numbers. Some of those toners are no longer available due to EPA lead laws and other chemicals. Remind me to look it up for you when I get back in the shop next week.

 

[55wagoncrazy]

If you can clean an area really well, Valspar has a camera that will take several photos of the area and produce a formula that is about a 99%
match. All the pigments are those they use. This is the best way to get it done. If you cannot get the car to them, then a part that can be removed
and taken to them will be just as good.

Valspar is a major paint company, but best know for non automotive paints.

Do some local searches for AUTOMOTIVE paint companies that carry their line

Mikey

 

[angs1957]

If your local paint store has the color matching gun it will formulate a paint code that could produce the paint for you, they are usually pretty good, I would get a small amount made to see if the color matches, sometimes if there is a color specialist in store they can tweak the color to get it even better match.

 

[FUZZY]

Just a little side note on those photo optic cameras. It doesn't always get the correct color, but one that is close in their data banks.

I've had several that were either too light, or too dark, not enough metallic or wrong metallic content (ie. coarse, medium, fine, etc.)

The formula I have back home is the from the old Valspar Quarterback system, which was all the old car formulas. The guys that ran that system retired and Valspar went with a newer system that doesn't include the older color formulas. Luckily I keep and track all the old formulas I've used and can make more if need be.

 

[Granpa49!!]

I've heard that the Nason camera at orielly's stores is the most accurate. It does not try to match your color to something already in their database. instead, it strives to match your sample. The inside of my glovebox door had the best paint for sampling as it wasn't exposed to weathering.

 

[mr55/56]

My 56 is Sierra Gold and a few years ago a buddy of mine did some touch-up I believe he started with a Mercede Benz color.

 

[FUZZY]

I made it back from Vacation and figured I'd get those formulas looked up and sent out via PM. Both Mikey and Joe should have Messages with the info.