Re: Modern DuPont formulas for Packard colors

Posted by Mike Crane On 2009/2/5 22:07:10

Folks,

Many thanks for your constructive suggestions. When I purchased the 1940 110 Club Coupe it came as a rolling chassis with body in primer,30 boxes of parts, and the engine mounted on a stand. I was fortunate to inherit several sets of original paint chips including DuPont and Ditzler. The painter I've selected uses modern DuPont paints. My preference for the cars color is Packard Cream (after seeing a beautiful 1941 Darren in the Dayton, OH, Packard Museum). I've looked at both the Auto Color Library (http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/) and the DuPont Color Chip Historical Library (http://pc.dupont.com/dpc/en/US/html/visitor/b/dr/s/color/hcl.html), but neither translates the original lacquer color formulas into modern acrylic enamal paints. This afternoon I looked through DuPont's SpectroColor book that has modern color chips with a hole in the center for color matching. I was disappointed in the limited selection of yellows and that they didn't appear close to Packard Cream, so I feel like I've gone in a circle. Time to cogitate!