--- Richard Woodside <rwoodside@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jarno has come across one of the hazards of using
> non-factory original sources of information about
> our old cars.
>
> He wrote: "Secondly some literature tells about
> paint codes that letter Y means Cocoa metallic
> on year 1960 and letter U doesn't exist, but my
> car has code UU1 and it has had this color on it."
>
> The Catalog of American Car ID Numbers 1960-69
> contains the misinformation above, along with a
> notation that no trim codes are available for
> 1960 Dodge. Obviously, trim codes did exist;
> it's just that the Catalog compilers didn't have
> access to that information.
>
> But, American Automobile Paint Code Interchange
> Manual 1945-1995 indicates that paint code UU1 is
> Cocoa Poly, and that UU is the code for Cocoa Poly,
> while 1 is the code for single tone. So, Jarno's
> car departed the factory in a single tone Cocoa
> metallic paint. The PPG (Ditzler) formula number
> for Jarno's Cocoa Poly is 50543, by the way.
>
> For 1960 Dodge, there was no YY paint code. But in
> 1959 Dodge, YY was used for Canary Diamond, while
> in 1961, YY represented Buckskin.
>
> It's too bad that the factory service manuals don't
> have this info in them, since they're a lot easier
> to get than the factory paint and trim data books.
(snip)
AMC/Rambler shop manuals do list this, at least those
few I've seen, including paint codes for Ditzler and
other paint vendors. Never understood why nobody
else's shop manuals did this.
=====
Mike Sealey, San Francisco CA
'57 Plymouth Sport Suburban
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