Re: paint colors 1940

Posted by 1929PackardGuy On 2021/9/30 8:28:31

In general, as long as you get the paint pretty close, that's generally close enough to satisfy most collectors and car show judges. Even with today's computer color matching, paint colors are off. The old paint chips (originals) have usually discolored with time, and who knows if the reprinted ones have the color right either? Look at the factory ads or brochures and pick something that will be pretty darn close and nobody will say anything about it.

For putting food on the table we publish a Mopar muscle car magazine. Every year we go to Carlisle and there are Panther Pink 'Cudas and Challengers all over the place. Thankfully Carlisle does a good job of herding like cars together. If you have forty pink 'Cudas and Challengers there, you'll have 25 different shades of pink on them. Side-by-side, it becomes obvious, paint mixing, even these days, isn't an exact science. Pretty close is good enough.

Same thing goes for Chicle Drab and Copra Drab - park a row of cars painted those colors together and you get a wild assortment of shades and hues. Make it pretty - as long as it's close, nobody's going to make a fuss about it.