BRian,

Thanks for going the extra mile to look up your collection of paint chips for this question. You're probably right about going back to the Museum for more research.

Paul

Paul,

Is that picture of the Clipper Super yours? Is that painted Agate and white? I'm looking for examples of that color combo for possible use on my Studebaker Speedster.

(another) Paul

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

Hi

I'm new here, and I know this is a Packard forum, but. . . I'm hoping to find some help with a 1955 Studebaker Speedser project.

One '55 Speedster was painted with an "experimental" gold/white two tone. According to the build sheet, the "gold" color is Rinshed-Mason #E21N014. Rinshed-Mason/BASF has gotten back to me and identified that as 1955 Packard Agate.

I found one car in the picture galary here with that combination. The Agate doesn't look like much of a gold to me. I'm hoping someone here might be able to supply some pictures of other '55's in Jade White/Agate. Color chip samples I have seen don't look as pinkish/tan as the Agate on the 400 in the picture galary.

Thanks for any help.

Paul