Enamel, lacquer, urethane? Which paint?

[rbruno68]

Originally Posted by Grounded63

PPG has a specific interior color paint line. DBI.

If it is still available. It's possible that it has been phased out by now. But, I would kinda expect, that since DBC is still available. It probably is also. I haven't had the need to buy any
In over a decade.

I actually asked yesterday if I gave them a Ditzler code from 1963 could they make the correct color. I got a “maybe” and you “may want to bring it in to paint match” and “we may have to ask” response. It was not a definite like TCP. Maybe I don’t have a great PPG dealer in my area.

[Grounded63]

Might not necessarily be the case. They may just be more honest.

TCP is just going to mix a formula from their in house brand data base, and send it. ( It may even be PPG, and they may not legally be allowed to disclose it ) If it doesn't match perfectly on your end. That's your existing aged 60+ year old paints problem.

PPG locally, is going to mix a formula of what it would have looked like originally/brand new. According to their data base. Depending on how your original 60+ year old paint has aged. Its probably not going to match perfectly. And will need to be tinted to match.

Also the the paint materials. Lacquer toners/metallics/pearls. That the vehicle was originally sprayed in. Haven't been available for multiple decades. So trying to color match perfectly. A newer paint system to an existing aged 60+ year old paint. Is always going to be a maybe. Especially when a distributor is dealing with a customer/vehicle face to face.

Edit.
Not to imply you are at either end of this spectrum. But, some customers can be especially unreasonably picky. And, others don't even care if the paint actually matches the OEM sprayed finish. As long as it has the correct color name on the can lable. That is also, probably, part of why you got a maybe, also.