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Wayne -

Thanks for providing the paint code from the VN tag of your '56 Four Hundred, but I'm sorry to report that you do not have one of the rare "Flamingo" factory paint jobs.

If you check the front section of the 1955-1956 parts book and 1956 paint chip sets available here, you'll find that:

M = Dover White
K = Scottish Heather

On Senior series cars, the first letter of the paint code represents the color of the roof and lower body; the second letter, the upper body.

Again, the only interior trim set available with Flamingo was black and white. You clearly have black and "red".

Also, when it came to painted metal interior trim, Packard used same colors as used on exterior, but in enamel rather than lacquer, I believe. A black and white interior would have black dash and steering column; they never painted any metal interior trim in white. Your car, with black and "red", would have Scottish Heather on those parts, which it does - but badly faded.

Although I've never seen a chip anywhere for Packard's Flamingo color (Code "O"), follow this link to autocolorlibrary.com's Ditzler paint chip set for '57 Lincoln:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/aclchip.aspx?image=1957-lincoln-pg01.jpg

As I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, Lincoln offered a "Flamingo" for 1957 that is similar to what I saw on a bona fide Dover White and Flamingo (MO) '56 Executive in OH.

However, I've never seen a supplier bulletin on Packard's Flamingo to check the supplier number against that of the '57 Lincoln Flamingo - to see if they were actually one in the same formula.

Wayne,
for including your '56 Four Hundred Hardtop Coupe in the Packard Owner's Registry.

This is a 5677A I bought in 1966 it has been scrapped

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Now THAT looks like the color of the Flamingo Exec that I found in OH, years ago.

I'm remembering, now, how the bright green metallic engine really clashed with the pale pink of the surrounding bay.

That car looks like the condition of the 56 400 I scrapped all those years ago. Here are some photos of the fender skirt from the flamingo car.

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I know this is an old thread, BUT I just posted a photo of the 56 Executive our family owned at one time in the Flamingo color in another thread on this site, so rather than load another photo here, see it here.