Re: Modern DuPont formulas for Packard colors

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/1/28 11:37:54

Any good paint dealer can mix all the paint you want if you tell them the original name or number of the color.

They will not have the formula on hand but they can get it from the "head office" within a day or 2.

Rusty, I think you overstate the simplicity a bit. There are quite a few colors where myself and others have been unable to get a match from the major paint suppliers. Some pigments are only available for acrylic and nitrocellulose lacquers and not for urethanes, and visa versa. The very small particle size metallic flakes used from the 30s thru the 50s are not always available and you either have to settle for larger flakes, or have them custom milled to smaller size.

But there aren't too many colors you can't come close to matching using the Sikkens color match system that uses the (thousands of) colored circles that you put your original part beneath of match. This is a pretty neat system and generally gives you options from available colors. I'd advise to view the colors in natural daylight though and especially avoid looking at them under flourescent light. But it too has the limitation that sometimes the color you want is only available in the paint system you didn't want to use.