Re: Sanding Car ready for Paint

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2010/12/26 12:24:49

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Every manufacturer of auto paint should have the formula. All paint manufacturers continuously improve or at least change their products. The formula for a 1954 color that was published in 1954 is now useless, the paint manufacturers have changed the formula several time since then. Every paint manufacturer has their own formula. Your local dealer will only have the formula for cars up to about 20 years old, for real old cars they have to get the formula from the home office of the company.

A few years ago I ordered Sikkens paint for a 1952 Chrysler using just the code number off the ID plate. They had the paint for me the next day even though Sikkens was not even in business in Canada in 1952.

Your painter must have a favorite brand of paint that he uses all the time. All painters do. So, you go to the local paint dealer who sells your favorite brand of paint and you order the paint, giving the dealer the original 1954 code number and paint name and brand of car. In this case it would be 1954 Packard Bellevue Green, code N. You would also have to tell him how much paint you want.

The conversation would go something like this.

You: Hi I would like to order one gallon of paint, 1954 Packard Bellevue Green, code N.

Counterman: OK let me check and make sure I can get the correct formula. I should have it by tomorrow.

The counterman would then communicate with the home office or headquarters of the paint company by telephone or Email and they would send him the correct formula. He would then mix the paint.

I hope this is clear. There are other details to it, such as knowing exactly which type of paint you want but I am trying to keep it understandable.