Re: [Amc-list] PPG paint recipes?

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

If you pull a sill plate and buff and polish under it, you'll get a good 
idea of what it looked like new. The underside of the trunk lid is also 
a good place.

Matt

On 4/5/2008 9:35 PM, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx spouted this sage advice:
> You can call around, some shops will color match with a gun that samples the paint on the car.
> It can be hit and miss, mostly miss.
> With a car that old you would need a bonafide paint guru to get an exact match.
> Your shooting for respectable is the best most of us can do.
> 
> Just getting paint instead of rust is an improvement!
> 
> 
> --
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
> " Chronic Pain Hurts"
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Bruce Griffis" <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cool! So I've got P-4A Mystic Gold Poly! Might be time to sand off
>> some rust and touch it up a bit. That paint chip doesn't look like my
>> car, though. I guess 43 years will do that to paint.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM, JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Go to www.autocolorlibrary.com  and search on AMC for
>>>  1961 or 62.  The PPG paint codes are there.  A PPG
>>>  vendor can probably mix the paint based on the code.
>>>  If they cannont, try www.Towerpaint.com and see if
>>>  they can mix it.
>>>
>>>  Joe Fulton
>>>
>>>  --- Joe Smith <know_ware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>  > I am looking for the recipe for Jasmine Rose on the
>>>  > 1961 and 1962 American color charts.  Any
>>>  > suggestions?
>>>  > Thanks!
>>>  > Joe
>>>  >
>>>  > http://360.yahoo.com/karl_haart
>>>  >
>>>  >
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