color

[57chevyman]

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

[57chevyman]

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

[57chevyman]

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

[57chevyman]

this one is called regal turquoise..

[Highsider]

Every monitor can show a different color.

[57chevyman]

Originally Posted by Highsider

Every monitor can show a different color.

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?

[thebebop]

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

[1958Warrior]

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

[Dan in Pasadena]

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!

[57chevyman]

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....

[Speedbumpauto]

regal turquoise/indian ivory.

[mr48chev]

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.

[1project2many]

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.

[Sim6]

Good

[Old Crow]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

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.

They actually do have such a machine. Doesn't always work that easy, though. Colors with a lot of flake and pearl in them give the thing fits.
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.

[Highsider]

Originally Posted by Old Crow

They actually do have such a machine. Doesn't always work that easy, though. Colors with a lot of flake and pearl in them give the thing fits.
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.

OFF-TOPIC:
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.

[57chevyman]

Originally Posted by Old Crow

They actually do have such a machine. Doesn't always work that easy, though. Colors with a lot of flake and pearl in them give the thing fits.
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.

When I first got there with the glove box door , the guy took it in the back ... And whatever equipment they had to computer match it was not coming up with a good match . The computer tells you how close the match is and the according to the guy , a score above 3 is not a good match... The computer gave my color match attempt a score of 17. I guess technology hasn't really advanced much in this color matching for car paint ? They ended up "adding a little blue " to a ppg turquoise color, by eye, to match my paint. I have to say , the color looks dead on balls accurate.
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
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[57chevyman]

took a while to get to it, but my friend painted the truck today. looks real nice

[Dan in Pasadena]

Looks good from here, Frank! Lol

Are you happy with it up close?

[63 & 64 Bowties]

Looks great! Your friend must be a magician. It doesn't look like there's enough room to paint a bicycle in there.

[1958Warrior]

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.....

[57chevyman]

Originally Posted by 63 & 64 Bowties

Looks great! Your friend must be a magician. It doesn't look like there's enough room to paint a bicycle in there.

Haha , that's not the room where they paint
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[57chevyman]

Originally Posted by 1958Warrior

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.....

It's a perfect match to the interior color. Although my truck was red from the factory
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[Russell Ashley]

That looks great. The only problem is, now you have to worry about keeping it from getting scratched or dinged, LOL.

[57chevyman]

im real happy with the way it came out.