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Does anyone know where I can get matching paint to touch up the trim and Fridgiking box in my 55 Patrician? The interior trim is dark green metalic, PE-55O3-2. The interior trim code is 63. Thanks.

Just my two cents but I think you might consider removing something like a molding or maybe the glove box door and taking it to a local paint shop to have a few cans of spray paint color matched to the color it is now and not what it was when new.

After so many years it could be very hard to get an exact match by code. Modern paints don't use the same materials of 60 years ago which is an issue on some colors and how they reflect. Not as much an issue when doing a whole car but on spot touchups when you factor in fading or any kind of color shift if an interior cleaning product reacted with the paint, the touchup by code could result in a color mismatch just as noticeable as scratches or wear spots.

The old TCP Global library which matched old codes to new colors seems to have moved or maybe discontinued but here is another paint library site someone posted a link to.paintref.com/paintref/index.shtml Not sure of the capabilities of this new one but it might be able to help by code.

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I agree with Howard. Just pop a piece of trim off (bigger is better...so I would do the glove box door) and take it to a paint supplier. I took mine to an auto paint supplier and they scanned it with their camera and got me a color that should be a close match. I haven't used it yet, but the test drop sure looks right on.

-Kevin

Thanks guys.
This forum is awesome! Have a great day.
Al

You can find TCP Global's color library at
Auto Color Library.