Re: Wood grained dash

Posted by sanford mitchell On 2009/10/17 16:13:25

Highlander..thankyou...I stand particially corrected..metallics came by accident..by none other that GM's Cadillac Div for the Custom Auto show for 1929. So the story goes..Three Cadillac convertible sedans were being painted for the Custom Salon for various cities NY, the West Coast and I belive Chicago. time being the essence GM ordered the colors Channel maroon and I belive Paris Grey from DuPont. After the maroon was painted on the venders the Superintendant came down to see the cars there laid before him were three metallic fendered cars. Evidently he had a hemmorage..and told the subordinates to get that (&*)(*&() dupont salesman here like pronto..and a fresh batch of paint. In analysis but dupont, it appeared that the metallic balls in crushing the 'japan' or pigment had disintegrated. Two of the cars were repainted but there was no time in doing the third and was shipped to the custom salon where it drew much favorable comment by the public..

Yes I have heard the fish scales were also used in the early pigments.

My son Sanford III works as a paint tech at the BASF paint facility in Whitehouse Ohio just west of Toledo. I will ask him about the PPG paint library. I think he said they are now working on colors for 2015...