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Elite Veteran
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Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin | anyone have a paint code or formula for the blue-grey primer ........mopar painted the wheels and underside of hoods? or something equivilent ? Thanks john
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Location: South Easton & Cape Cod, MA | Mix all of the colors that the plant was spraying the day your car was built,
and you should be pretty close! |
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Location: Under the X in Texas | I have seen the late '60s "muscle era" blue gray primer for underbodies advertised by at least one of the Mopar muscle parts dealers. You can probably find it with some searching. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta | I can get you RM Uno paint codes for some paint that I had made. It matches MY trunk, but there are so many variations of the Mopar blue-grey primer, that there really is no right or wrong. I had mine mixed and color matched from my trunk latch. I took it in to a body shop supply place here and they created a the color. You need to add a lot of flattener. I told them to mix my color with 30% flattener, and my color is still too shiny. If I had them mix it again, I'd ask them to go 35%. I'd think that the easiest thing for you do to would be to unbolt something from your car that has "your" blue-grey shade and have the body shop supply place mix it up. You'll have an exact match that's specific to your car, except for the wheels. Alternatively, you could bring in your spare, and have them match it to that.
If your a novice when it comes to spray painting (as am I), see if you can find a shop that specializes in RM (BASF) finishes, and tell them that you want RM Uno. This is a nice paint for newbies to work with as it's very forgiving. I've been very pleased with the results that I got with it, and it has a 2 hour dry time, unbaked at about 75F. That dry time will get you to a point when you can move the freshly painted part with care, and not damage it.
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Here's the story:
Whether or not the final colour was blue/gray or black, the paint was all the same. I had it analyzed by Dupont Labs many years ago. It was leaded alkyd enamel. Great stuff and one could spot weld through it very effectively. ALL automotive plants used it. It had to be thinned for spraying. In hot/humid weather we thinned it with paint thinner so it would dry before the next assembly station. In cold non-humid weather we thinned it with lacquer thinner for the same reason. From an accurate restoration viewpoint, whether or not this paint is gloss, semi-gloss or flat is solely dependant on what thinning agents and their concentrations were used at any particular time of paint.
IMHO, anything to the contrary is questionable. So, govern yourselves accordingly during your restoration.
The blue/gray colour can be picked from my gallery thread or from Neil
Mopar didn't paint the wheels. The individual supplier did!!
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
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Location: bishop, ca | Like Jane says, the subject blue-grey shade was (reportedly) the result of mixing the daily unused left-over paint.
The wheels were painted by their supplier, and then each marque's paint department only sprayed the periphery of the wheel
(to save some considerable money, in the long run)....usually in that Eggshell color, unless the car got the poverty/dog-dish
hubcaps, in which instance the wheels were painted to match the main/lower body color.
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin | Thanks guys !
great info .........
I'll stop at my local auto paint store and look thru there paint chip books for something close..
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | Just gather up all the leftover paint in your house, and ask your neighbors too, mix em all together, and voila!!  |
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blue-grey primer
