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[Glacier73]

Hi all I would like to take my car back to it’s original 59X trim, does anyone know where I can source the correct Chestnut Brown in rattle cans I don’t have a sample for color matching.
Am wanting to paint the metal under dash etc and steering column.
Any help is appreciated

[S pack]

The original Dulon Chestnut medium gloss paint code is 578-15396.

You won't find it in on the shelf in touch up pressure packs.

 

I believe Autobarn stores can mix paint colours on request and put in a pressure pack for you.

No idea how much it costs though.

[Ice]

The original Dulon Chestnut medium gloss paint code is 578-15396.

You won't find it in on the shelf in touch up pressure packs.

 

I believe Autobarn stores can mix paint colours on request and put in a pressure pack for you.

No idea how much it costs though.

Go to an automotive paint distributor they should be able to make the colour in a pressure pack can 

Autobarn 17 year old kids haven’t  got a clue about anything automotive 

[claysummers]

Mate I’m sure they very good but at putting doof doof boxes in.

As gene says decent paint shop will help you. If you were in Adelaide I’d recommend Lonsdale Paints.


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[RallyRed]

Go to an automotive paint distributor they should be able to make the colour in a pressure pack can 

Autobarn 17 year old kids haven’t  got a clue about anything automotive 

I got a rattle can of March 17 made up at local Supercheap........despite their best efforts, i think it is really March 16 or 19, because it doesn/t match the car. 

( of course the car may not be 100% correct either, but who knows).

[S pack]

Go to an automotive paint distributor they should be able to make the colour in a pressure pack can 

Autobarn 17 year old kids haven’t  got a clue about anything automotive 

Well fkn shoot me then for recounting that I saw my local Autobarn store has the capability to mix auto paints and shove them into a pressure pack.

Not everyone working at Autobarn is a 17yo kid, not my local store at least.

Granted an automotive paint trade store would be a better choice, if they offer the mix & pressure pack service.

Alternatively beg buy, borrow or steal hire a spray gun and compressor.
 

Edited by S pack, 07 March 2021 - 12:10 PM.

[Ice]

[Ice]

I got a rattle can of March 17 made up at local Supercheap........despite their best efforts, i think it is really March 16 or 19, because it doesn/t match the car. 

( of course the car may not be 100% correct either, but who knows).

Could have been 18 

[claysummers]

My bloke will do you 2k in a rattle can ffs. By time yo get a cheap gravity gun cheaper than the cans and you might learn something. Either way use a mask. He just started charging to colour match. Would spend hours to get it right.


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[Glacier73]

Was at supercheap the other day and noticed the duplicolor stand, interesting they had Glacier White under the correct paint code, no Chestnut. At the back of the stand they had a phone number to call, turns out their MMP Contract Manufacturer of more than half of the aerosol paints in Australia including Duplicolor, and a heap of other well known brands doing 15,000 colors but they say they don’t do Chestnut.
Tried automotive paint suppliers VG auto paints that will make up custom colors but don’t recognise interior paint codes but will color match, no good to me as I don’t have a sample.
Ok Its worth at least to see if Autobarn recognise the paint code thanks Dave.
Anymore suggestions are welcome

[yel327]

PPG recognise most GMH colour codes. Whether or not they can do the vinyl spray may be a different issue but they should have a formula for it unless it is high lead content which some browns are. The Berger code for Chestnut Brown is HH5229. I don’t have a Dulon book that goes back into 1974 to get you the formula but a PPG shop will.

[yel327]

A pre-1980 Dulon book just turned up today. Here is the paint formula for it:

 

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[Glacier73]

Went to Autobarn last week they didn’t have my paint code on their computer so didn’t take it any further, rubbed the black paint off my blinker stalk to reveal some of the Chestnut color and took it to an automotive paint supplier, wasn’t a big enough sample area for them, they checked their computer by paint name and turns out they had a formula on their computer, had 2 cans done, looks close but think it could be a shade or 2 off, maybe they used a sample and that’s what they came up with?
That’s great yel327 thanks, I might follow up on the Dulon formula knowing that it’s correct.

[Glacier73]

Not a great pic (nighttime) but pIc of honey pot and lower cover after a few coats with the cans I had made up, think it’s a little on the light side, am now interested in how different it might be to the Dulon formula.

[Glacier73]

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[yel327]

It could be the gloss level too.
I took a formula of Woodsman Green to a PPG paint shop recently along with a formula for a colour sampled off a NOS Holden rear shock absorber. They differed but were close in their makeup, the sampled formula had a few tiny amounts off odd bits added which is probably just part of the sampling process. I reckon side by side there could be a visual difference but only slight. If you get the formula above and compare, it may not be that noticeable.
They made me up the sampled one, just waiting to get the original shocks rebuilt so I can paint them. I still reckon the original shocks colour is Woodsman Green though! I have an original 1968 HK Monaro guard here in it, looks just like the original HJ shocks.

Edit - it may be the white balance in that photo, but it does look too yellow. Almost Covert in colour rather than Chestnut. Do you have any original chestnut to compare? I might still have a HQ part here somewhere in Chestnut, or there would probably be an old HQ at Classicozwreck with some plastic still in it somewhere in it.

Edited by yel327, 17 March 2021 - 09:28 PM.

[TOERUNNER]

I have a glove box lid in the original chestnut, i will get a photo later for comparison, the colour on that honey pot doesn't look quite right.

[TOERUNNER]

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[Glacier73]

Good pics, thanks.
Yeah definitely not correct, thought it should of been more brown