Awesome period paint codes

Rustbucket · Post by **Rustbucket** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:05 am

It would be no joke to say I have spent about 4 hours in various Paint shops looking for my cursed Aetna Blue shade ....

I had no luck what so ever looking through books, chips etc, on line, so I spent 20 mins on the phone (mobile-ouch) talking to Mike at Stoddards body shop in the US, who managed to give me a coding.
This coding was out of date still, so I had new info to look online and found this link- I hope it helps some people out there, I have yet to go into ordering some, and it is a 2k system. Still, it might be a godsend to some people (like me !)

http://www.classicporsche.net/Documents ... ations.pdf

cubist · Post by **cubist** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:33 am

Xlnt! Just what I needed...

58A - 71E · Post by **58A - 71E** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:25 am

Great link, thanks

356boy · Post by **356boy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:28 pm

apart from there isnt a formular for adriablau metallic, i,ve really struggled getting the correct shade for that
great link though

Hendrik Moulds · Post by **Hendrik Moulds** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:12 pm

Another source is Willhoit: http://www.willhoitautorestoration.com/
He can make a sample up for you to colour match to. This is how I got heron grey for my B.

Bathtub57 · Post by **Bathtub57** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:30 pm

356ist wrote:Another source is Willhoit: http://www.willhoitautorestoration.com/
He can make a sample up for you to colour match to. This is how I got heron grey for my B.

I used Willhoit as well. Mixing Silver 608 from the code came up with a completely different shade to the sample that Willhoit provided - we went with the Willhoit card and matched to that.

atomman · Post by **atomman** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:23 am

you legend

I took my dash top off the 912 on the weekend only to find a bit off writing from 1965 in chinagraph.

Because my German isnt up to much anymore i maybe thought it was the guys name who built or signed off the car.
Looking at that paint code chart its the colour its painted

HELL ELFENBEIN.

Hendrik Moulds · Post by **Hendrik Moulds** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:42 am

That's light Ivory to you.

atomman · Post by **atomman** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:46 am

356ist wrote:That's light Ivory to you.

cheers 356ist

Thats the colour its going back to, i did like the Tangerine though, but thought it would be better to paint it the OG colour.