Re: [AMC-list] Paint formula

[Marc Montoni <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>]

Here's a paint chip scan on the website of a supplier:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/aclchip.aspx?image=1966-americanmotors-pg01.jpg

Note that the PPG code is the same as the Ditzler.

The above supplier is about as cheap as any paint supply I've come across.

BTW, many NAPA stores can mix auto paint (Martin-Senour brand, I believe); and many major cities have Sherwin-Williams automotive divisions.  I've sprayed S-W in the past and it's as good as any of the majors.

Be careful with mixes off the code, though.  Modern color formulations seem to be substantially different than 40 years ago, and it's really rare that a paint mixed from the code actually matches the existing paint.  A scan, plus some fiddling by a good, patient paint mix man, is the best way to get a good color match.  When I worked in a body shop, I used leftover paint from previous paint jobs to bring a color mixed from code into a close match.  Strangely enough, my boss, who was a dynamite paint man (his ENAMEL paint jobs were as glassy as a lot of urethane clear coats are now) but he couldn't match worth a damn (he wasn't color blind but he said he couldn't detect shades of a color very well), so he'd get the paint delivered and leave me alone with it and the car for thirty minutes or so until I got the color right for him to spray.

It really hasn't gotten any better, because scans pick up the metallic in paint differently than the color molecules, and so on.  With Apollo Yellow you won't have that issue, but it won't hurt to pick up a pint of premixed white, green, and red so you can adjust your color as needed when you get it home.

-- Marc


Wayne E LaMothe <superglider@xxxxxxxx> said:

>I had the Ditzler code but not the others.  Will see if that gives them
>anything to work with.
>
>> CODE    NAME            YEAR(S)         DITZLER DuPONT En.      
>> DuPONT Lq.
>> 
>> P25A    APOLLO YELLOW   66-67, 69       81525   93-97799        
>> 4756L
>> 
>> You have this already, right?
>> 
>> > I have checked with two places locally and they can 
>> > not seem to find the paint formula for 1966 Apollo 
>> > Yellow.  Any ideas where I can find it?  I can take 
>> > an inner storage panel to have it scanned but that 
>> > place is 45 miles away and I do not normally do 
>> > business with them so I don't know if I can trust them.
>> > It is close to the 1970 Hialeah Yellow but the 66 Apollo 
>> > has some green tint to it.  I will use the 1970 color if 
>> > need be.




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