Re: [FWDLK] [GFS] 57/58 FURY COLOR QUESTION

I looked in the paint computer at work, code MMM which is Buckskin Beige is in there under a different name (which escapes my mind at the moment, old age sucks) but it is listed as a '58 color and doesn't specify that it is a Plymouth only color. As Ron said the color won't be exact with newer paints, the tints from back then are different, I can't even match my 20 year old Plum Crazy paint on my Fury, the metallics, hues, everything is just off, we tried scanning the car with several manufacturers scanners, tinting by eye, even found a jobber that still sells and mixes laquer but nothing matches good enough for a repair. My car is a dead on match to a "survivor" from 1970, I've seen one at Carlisle but if you put near any restored or recently repainted cars they are way off.

In a message dated 8/16/2010 5:31:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Archangel1390@xxxxxxx writes:

You guys are confusing the paint name with the paint number. Plymouth was not going to use a Dodge paint name, DeSoto was not going to use a Chrysler paint name. Each one of the Chrysler Corp. branches had their own paint name. However when you buy it the name is associated with a number. That paint number can be on other Chrysler Corp. cars. Not every single paint they make but a lot of them. Chrysler had all kinds of interchangeable parts that fit something other than what you were buying the part for. Why would they not do that with some of their paint also. If you can not find Buckskin Beige then get the paint number and see if it was used in other model Chrysler products in later years. When paint is mixed it is done with numbers, when paint is made for a production car it gets a number.

   Today most big paint suppliers have a computer guy that they put up against the cars paint where it is not faded---------like under the hood or trunk and they click the computer camera and it tells them the exact mix to get that color paint that is on the un faded part of the car. If you are just touching up a car then you can have them make a computer shot of the faded part of the car for a perfect match.

     This is not something I read in a book, this is something I have been doing for years on many of my collector cars.

    Ron Swartley

PS. Most of the original paint made back in the 50's 60's & 70's is no longer made because it had chemicals in it that are outlawed today in paint.

In a message dated 8/16/2010 4:46:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mmyhrvold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I saw one once, back in the late 70's or early 80's a belvedere 2 door hard top,but I won't swear it wasn't a repaint. It was for sale in Tampa and was somewhat rusty and had a dent in the quarter panel.
---- W J LEWIS <reata@xxxxx> wrote:
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> I would agree with Art, have lived through the same times and I never recalled a Plymouth painted Buckskin Beige that wasn't a Fury.
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> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:26:52 -0400
> Subject: Re: [GFS] 57/58 FURY COLOR QUESTION
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> I believe Buckskin Beige was only available on the Fury. I lived through the years when these cars were new, and followed everything closely. I never saw a non-Fury in Buckskin Beige.
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