I am currently in the process of restoring my 55 Tudor Customline. The colour was Snowshoe White but here in Oz, the paint suppliers I have been dealing with can find no listing that goes back that far. I have the original Dupont paint chip from a 1960 Book for the colour but the numbers do not apply to the current system.

Does anyone have the quantities of paint tinters to create this colour and the system to use that is current.

I have a friend who is about to respray a 56 car and the colours are meadowmist green and colonial white. We are in the same situation with these paint colours.

Any suggestions?

Rick - West Australia
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Rick ,  I can give you the original duco , dulux  ,  paint number ,  if thats any help...........colonial white is the same as wimbelton white ,  they changed the name in the 60,s i believe.......I have the same problem, working on a 55 crown ,  tropical rose and snowshoe white ,   had to take a piece with the color to the paint store , and it was matched  with some kind of computor ,  ........Luck    Sam ...................Forida

56 victoria

I have a can of Meadowmist green left over from painting my car.I'll look tomorrow and see if I can get you the mix numbers from it.I think I also have a can of Colonial Whitethat might have those numbers.

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Thanks for the responses.

By the sound of it, the situation is no better in the states than it is here in OZ.

I have the card with the numbers for Snowshoe White but none for the '56 but they don't give quantities. My paint chip card is pretty old and faded so not really any use. Nowadays when they mix, they do it all by weight I think. I can take parts in to get colour matched but my car was one which had been stored for 45 years in California and it is pretty stained/rusted/patinated. Almost every car I have seen landed here from the states has the same paint problem so colour matching is pretty hard.

It is interesting that Colonial White was changed in name to Wimbleton White - that will probably be easier to find if it is a 60's number.

The 50's seem to be regarded as the dark ages.

Thanks for the replies.

Regards


Rick - West Australia
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I can give you all the info from a can of Dupont Nason Ful-cryl acrylic Meadowmist Green.This was mixed by an O'Reilly's store.

Tinting Guide      Mix size:32.0 OZ.(Quart)

430-03 H.S. WHITE        296.8

430-16 YELLOW GREEN    310.4

430-19 LEMON YELLOW    320.1

430-15 PERMANENT BLUE  325.9

430-02 CARBON BLACK     329.8

435-94 ACRYLIC BINDER    1023.9

This is 56 Ford Meadowmist Green.

Hope this helps.

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Thanks for that Paul.

That certainly will give my paint store some guidelines as to what to do to get the colour.

He'll have to do a bit of maths to get it right. Way back in "74 our politicians in their wisdom thought we needed to follow the European model and made all our measurements from that date metric to follow on from our change to the dollar in '66 I guess.

For us old fellas it was a bit of a learning curve and I still have not been able to understand the benefit from the change. I do know that everything cost more afterwards and it gave them more avenues to tax us further.

Anyway I digress, thanks for the info

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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Rick, g,day. after restoring 50,s and 60,s fords for over 30 years, both local and us models, time has beat us with trying to obtain and use original colors, truth is, no one could pick 2 shades different once applied to car, we used to be able to substitue the modern acrylic tinter in place of the obsolete nitro cellouse tinters and color was acceptable because it was fresh and once applied no one cared!. My duco book shows 55 was Alaska white in 55, Snowdrift white in 56. Correctly some of the very  common original colors, whites, blacks  were continued into today in 2 pack scheme. My advice is look throuigh modern paint chip books and find color you think original was and go that way, its more practical and uptodate. best regards . aussiebill.

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Thanks for that Bill

It has been my experience in the past to just settle for "something like" what you had originally and I will probably just go with that in the end.

It is just so disappointing that you can get so much for our old cars and yet the simplest thing is not available. All it needs is a bit of paper to keep it right and no-one bothers.

I had the same problem back in the '80's trying to paint an EH Holden in 2Pak Acrylic Enamel, and you are right once it was done no-one knew the difference.

It seems the more things change the more they stay the same.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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