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It depends on the mix of red.

I have a '75 Chevy Monza that is painted Light Red (GM Code 75), but has an orange cast to it in strong sunlight. My dad's '75 Impala was Medium Red (Code 72) for 1975 - more like a dark shade of fire engine red. One day, my dad mistakenly grabbed my tube of touch-up paint to work on his car in the garage; then, he notices all these little orangish spots in his paint after he backed the car out into the drieveway.

Packard's Scottish Heather is not a pure red, but has a bit of blue to it. It is similar in appearance to the flower of its namesake plant, but more red than purple.

My Caribbean Hardtop is White/Heather/Gray (MKN) but the middle color as shown in my avatar and Owner Registry images is way off.

Would that be a chrome heater control bezel???? Maybe shadow of "Caribean" on the hood instead of "clipper ".

Something else odd is the white hood and 'pink' trunk. Also looks like hood has a "Clipper" script at the front of it.

But would we expect door jams and glove box jam to oxidize or fade equal to the exterior weather exposed fenders????

The Studebaker Museum might have your build sheet, contact the gift shop there. That way you would know the build date.

My experience has been that reds will usualy turn more of a faded orange than anything that resembles pink. I have currently in my possession a paint job over 30 years old of DuPont acrylic red laquer (somewhat of a dark red) . I also have some of the original paint still in the can that i tried to use to touch up with about 5 years ago. The paint on the bike had turned nearly orange compared to the red in the can after it was sprayed onto the fender.

Desi, my friend, you and I go back a long way with MCP, now I find out that you and I (and govenor Grandholm) were born on the exact same day! February 5th 1959!

Happy Birthday, hope to see you again.

P.S. I was born at Holy Cross on the East side. My parents must have taken their passports to go to the east side, we were westsiders (NW Detroit)

It reference to the car above that had it's root in Victorville, CA (High Desert of Calif). That is where I grew up and lived up there for 20+ years. I can tell you that it is bone dry up there, single digit humidity, and the summers are very hot 110-115. So that type of heat bakes paint and interiors. I had a car painted in the early 90s a solid non-metalic color and within 4 years it was faded so badly it needed a repaint. It turns colors much lighter and chalky.

As HH56 indicates above i would start by using SHORTER front load links.

ok. it's a 55. 55 used differnt front load link pins from 56. Count the grooved rings on the load link pins and report back.

I finally found the flamingo fender skirt from my old 400. I will post a photo tomorrow. I believe Brian is correct, that is not flamingo color. It is almost for certain scottish heather.