A few years ago I was able to get touch up paint for my '40 sedan. Maybe it was more than a few. in any case, I cannot find anything exact that I can transmit to the automotive paint company to get a match.
I recently had them use their optical reader, but it was not an acceptable match when I applied it to the car.
Anyone know where I can get some info on the right blue (boatswain)?
Did you try NAPA to match your paint?
Also every once in a while ebay will have paint chips for the 1940 Plymouth
Are you aware of the POC Facebook page? If you are, contact Jim Benjaminson, he is the 1940 tech
Rich,
Thanks for the photo. Wow !!! That is a nice looking 1940.
I am surprised that a paint store cannot "shoot" your car with
their paint camera and get a good paint match. You might
have to go to another store or place that sells paint. In my
area, there is an O'Reilly Auto Parts store that does this.
You might have to ask around at several body shops to see
who they recommend to do this. Or, go back to the first place &
ask them to "shoot" your car again. It seems to me when they
did the first "shoot" back years ago, they would have given your
color a name or number and referenced it to you.
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You might need to try another company that deals with a different paint supplier. The tints and pigments used are not the same from paint company to paint company.
I have a collection of paint charts (mostly on computer) covering the early 1930's through to the 1990's, and it is not uncommon to find a paint company that does not have a colour match for certain colours. In those situations the paint company was not able to duplicate the colour with their tints.
And the tints and pigments have changed over the years. In 1940 Plymouths were painted with synthetic enamels. In the 1960's came acrylic enamels and today we have systems with a base colour coat topped by a nice, shiny clear coat. And the tints used to create the colours changed along with the paint types.
This seems to be a problem that is becoming more common - the inability to duplicate the exact paint colour used fifty, sixty or more years ago.
Bill
Vancouver, BC
Just to show you how the tints varied from firm to firm, here are the formulas for Boatswain Blue (1940 Plymouth) from four companies:
Acme -
810 - Prussian Blue - fill to 49.75
716 - White - fill to 54.00
715 - Black - fill to 55.00
724 - Red Oxide - fill to 56.00
Andrew Brown -
#55 - Blue - fill to 27 oz.
White - fill to 31 oz
#10 Green - fill to 32 oz
Ditzler -
TLE-3 - Chinese Blue - fill to 24-11/16 oz
TLE-23 - Zinc Oxide White - fill to 31-11/16 oz
TLE-10 - Light Chrome Yellow - fill to 32-1/16 oz
DuPont (lacquer) -
246-051 - Milori Blue
246-0097 - White
246-020 - Black
(Do not have the amounts of each tint)
As you can see, the tints are different for each company, and yet each is supposed to produce the same colour. So, if one company cannot produce a formula by computer "reading", find out which company's reader they are using and see if you can find a company with another paint company's reader.
Also, Boatswain Blue was used on the 1940 DeSoto as Bimini Blue.
Bill
Vancouver, BC