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-- Edited by Tony Hoffer on Monday 10th of December 2012 04:18:47 PM

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dashboard wrote:

Nice color. Is this it?

http://www.paintscratch.com/touch_up_paint/Ford/1972-Ford-Trucks-Calypso-Coral-1-TRUCK-(1972).html

 Check with Car Quest around the corner. I had the paint on the '66 fender "read" and mixed there. They may have books to help see the color. They had GM colors back to the 60's.



-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Monday 10th of December 2012 08:59:09 PM

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I think I have found what the original paint was for the Brut snowmobiles but I need some help.. The color was a 1972 Ford truck color called calypso coral...

I have a formulation that was "custom"  made

Scorpion Brut orange.jpg




and I need to know how close it is to the Calypso coral formulation... Where can I find the breakdown?



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IM going to have some hoods painted and this will be very helpful



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Maybe Karl has a reference that goes that far back, or do you have a local bodyshop connection?

I did a quick look and here's some info:
Ford code: M1730
Ditzler PPG code: 60449
DuPont: 4602LH, 4602H, 93-97249H
Sherwin Williams code: 2366

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Did a little more research...Unfortunately Akzo doesnt have that color in its "Sikkens" Line.. So I have no way to compare my custom mix with Calypso coral... PPG does make in though. So I would have to buy a small amount and have it shot on something to see how it looks..

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Nice color. Is this it?

http://www.paintscratch.com/touch_up_paint/Ford/1972-Ford-Trucks-Calypso-Coral-1-TRUCK-(1972).html



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You might try these guys... (I've ordered rattle can stuff for the Green Mary, and it's spot-on perfect)



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Fairly unscientific.. But what do you think?


Brut orange vs calypso coral.jpg



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Tony Hoffer wrote:
But what do you think?

 I think a '70 Torino is as bad-ass as any Ford ever looked. thumbsup (my uncle has an orange one... original 429 Super Cobra Jet)

 

Color looks pretty close too. cool



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Unless you park a Brut next to a Ford survivor, who's gonna know if it's a shade of ???

Spray 'em.....nana



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Lost in the 60s wrote:

Unless you park a Brut next to a Ford survivor, who's gonna know if it's a shade of ???

Spray 'em.....nana

 I think tony's going for as correct as possible. It's kind of like the guys who shoot thier '70 Chevelle SS red, but the shade is off. You can tell.



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The paint costs the same either way.. Its one of the rare instances where it doesnt cost anything more to get it right..

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You could have 5 stores mix the paint from the same formula and end up with 5 different shades. Heck, the paint changed slightly from one batch to the next at the plant. Back then the front clip was painted on a separate line than the body with paint from a different batch and the front fenders didn't always match the doors exactly. There was no "exact" back then.

 



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Tony. Doesnt someone out there in the Brut community have a nice unrestored one with nice paint you could help get an idea to match off of?



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Yes and No... Original usually means faded... Not too many time capsules in 40 year old snowmobiles.

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So nobody will know if it's off a shade. razz

Body shops have to blend paint into adjacent panels all the time because even factory-mixed paint is rarely a "perfect" match.



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Maybe with a little leg work Ill get the shade "I" want .. and hopefully its withing one shade of what its suppossed to be.



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