08-03-2015, 06:56 PM | #1 |
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hey y'all.
what color is my truck? i know its rustoleum "seaside"... but i decided to have a friend of mine who has a body shop professionally paint the truck. the job i did was fun to try, and it looks pretty good from across the street, even better from across the parking lot LOL. anyway, the truck deserves a proper paint job, and my friend offered to paint the truck with base and clear for a grand. he asked me to pick the paint color at the local auto body supply store. i was expecting to have a book to chose the correct color,,,but the guy at the store was saying its a custom color and theres nothing like it in his books. ( he had huge binders where you can look up stock colors for every vehicle you can think of).... is there a production vehicle out there that comes with this sort of robins egg aqua blue? i didnt think buying the paint would be an issue, but i guess it is! the store guy suggested that i paint a piece of flat metal, and bring it in so they can scan it to color match it. if you guys can offer any advice.... color codes? i think "tiffany blue" could be another name for what im lookin for....http://www.autoevolution.com/news/20...box-73085.html
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08-03-2015, 07:14 PM | #2 |
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this color is listed as "Indian Turqouise" by PPG with base and clear. this is THE color i want
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Archi...X-PICKUP-93451
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but when i google PPG Indian Turqouise, the sample on the website isnt the same at all.... has more green in it...
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintdetail.cgi?ppg=42256
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08-03-2015, 07:31 PM | #4 |
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this one is called regal turquoise..
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Every monitor can show a different color.
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yes thats true. tiffany blue is a pretty well known color... is there a paint code for that color, or is it a custom made color?
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08-03-2015, 09:52 PM | #7 |
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For your 57 the correct color would have been Indian Turquoise. If you Google 1955 Chevy truck Indian Turquoise you'll find a chart with the correct code number. I can't remember it off the top of my head
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Original color was more likely 710 Tartan Turquoise:
http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/aclc...truck-pg01.jpg Your Barret Jackson pic looks similar to Summit color coastal blue: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-up337lv/overview/ monitors vary the colors so much I've seen pics of trucks that look blue in one shot and green in another pic . If you cant get a paint code and brand from the horses mouth, best to buy a small container try a sample piece |
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I like the hell outta that Tartan Turquoise. It's your money of course, just saying!
PS: I'd also love saying it's an original color. This color chart has me thinking about that Cardinal Red and the Ocean Green for mine!
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yes the tartan turquoise is very close to what im doing... i ended up taking the glove box door to the paint shop and they did a great job color matching it....
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regal turquoise/indian ivory.
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You did good by taking the glove box in and having them match it. It's strange that Home Depot has a machine that you can stick a paint sample in and the computer matches the color and gives a readout on what is needed to come up with that color but companies like PPG don't seem to have it for automotive use yet.
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I spent hours and hours with paint chips and a section of the firewall that had original color which maybe had never seen sunlight. Flourescent lights, daylight, incandesent lights, eliminating colors one at a time until I had a match. Final color was Mercedes truck "türkis grüen" available from Standox. It's a tough color to pin down visually... blue in some light, green in others. Pictures always seem to bias it one way or the other. It's a nice contrast to the "Lada Beige" that's on the grille/bumpers. I'll see if I can snap a picture today or tomorrow.
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I worked in a house paint store back in the day when you had to match color by eye. Matching house paint and car paint are 2 different worlds.
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After giving up finding the exact automotive color chip that I wanted, I searched paint chips of numerous house paints. I found exactly what I was looking for in the WalMart-brand house paint chips. My body shop paint salesman easily matched it with the computer matching program. Orange Whip.
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I bought one gallon at the advice of my painter. So I asked the guy at the store .... "You measured how much blue , and what blue you added to this right "? The guy then says if I need more paint they will match by eye again. Smh Posted via Mobile Device |
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took a while to get to it, but my friend painted the truck today. looks real nice
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Looks good from here, Frank! Lol
Are you happy with it up close?
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Looks great! Your friend must be a magician. It doesn't look like there's enough room to paint a bicycle in there.
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Looks great , looks to be a perfect match to your original color ,
congrats, final color is always a huge step but there is that one other thing that you'd like to do..... |
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That looks great. The only problem is, now you have to worry about keeping it from getting scratched or dinged, LOL.
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im real happy with the way it came out.
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