Re: Pictures of '55 Agate and White

Posted by SpeedsterPaul On 2011/2/20 13:31:44

Thank you Brian and mlgrimes.

Brian, my understanding of Studebaker judging is that it's a bit "looser" than most marques. My car was originally coral/gray/coral in color. Not being a big fan of pink, I discovered that one later production Speedster was white/gold/white. To the best of my knowledge, the whereabouts of this car are unknown.

But in Studebaker judging, I've read that as long as something was factory or dealer "available" it will be allowed on a car without deduction of points, even though the build sheet doesn't show it on the particular car being judged.

So I don't have a patch of "gold" anywhere on my car. And since the one Speedster done that way is an unkown, nobody really knows what that color was. I have the build sheet for the white/gold/white car, and it gave the above Rinshed-Mason number and called it "gold." Rinshed Mason was nice enough to look up the number for me, and reported back that it referred to Packard 1955 Agate, with no metalic content at all.

In the three different paint chips I've seen for Agate, I've seen enough varaiation that one could almost imagine it as a grayish/tan sort of gold, close to a champaign color.

I'm a long way from painting, anyway. So I have time to keep researching this.

Thanks again.

Paul