Re: What color is my car?

Posted by PackardV8 On 2013/3/26 22:49:28

My crt resolution is very poor. But it appears to me that the car needs to be buffed and polished. That mite give better clues as to what the color looks like.

Look close at the paint finish. Try to determine if it is enamal or laquer. If enamel then it's a repaint. Someone correct me if i am wrong but packard used laquer in production. No??

Enamel will usualy have a slight orange peel appearence to it ( gotta be REAL PRO to eleminate the orange peel 100%) . Laquer has some swirling marks when well polished. OR get someone familiar with paint jobs to look at it.

Paint, will change shades dramatically over 20 to 40 years. It will happen even if the vehicle is kept out of sunlite 90% of it's life. I have an early 70's red laquer job here (DD Acrylic laquer and and there is no finer quality paint than the DD Acrylic laquer). Over the last 40 years it has oranged out from a rather dark kind of kidney bean red to an almost fire engine red. I have proven this by having kept some of the original FACTORY PAK paint from the early 1970's. Did a retouch on some minor damage about 8 years ago and it is exactly like the shade it was 35 to 40 years ago when i sparayed it. It's a motysickle and stays in a garage with boarded windows and covered with blankets all of it's last 40 years.

One of the longest running debates (that makes the BTV and PV8 oil pump debates look short) was Indian Motorcycle red. After more than 40 years of debates there is no evidence of correct shade. There can not be evidence.