What Colour is this?
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S0updragon
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Have a chat with some local car repair bodyshops. A B&q type place may have a magic eye paint machine but you would need to take a bit of paint off to put in their machine. Having the original colour name and getting that mixed may not be quite the same if it’s original paintwork due to fading etc. I would ask local paint centre or bodyshop
I've found these folks really helpful - they have access to the original Rootes 'recipes' and have a colour analyser service too (but you'd need to send them a suitable sample)
www.auto-paint.co.uk
Yours might not be an original Commer colour but quite possible as DVLA does have it registered as blue, so it might worth a look at these swatches ;
www.sa.hillman.org.au
www.sa.hillman.org.au
www.sa.hillman.org.au
www.sa.hillman.org.au
There's also a guy who can provide the factory records for Commers, so that might enlighten on the paint code it left the factory with - I'll look up his email address for you (there's a small charge for his service on this)
AutoPaint St. Helens - Car Paint from AutoPaint St Helens
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Yours might not be an original Commer colour but quite possible as DVLA does have it registered as blue, so it might worth a look at these swatches ;
Hillman Car Club of South Australia ICI Paint Colours
Hillman Car Club of South Australia ICI Paint Colours
Hillman Car Club of South Australia – ICI Paint Colours
Hillman Car Club of South Australia – ICI Paint Colours
There's also a guy who can provide the factory records for Commers, so that might enlighten on the paint code it left the factory with - I'll look up his email address for you (there's a small charge for his service on this)
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Just thought, your colour doesn't look a million miles away from this van but I forget who now owns this one to suggest asking what their colour is
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Also, this link provides some of the later Chrsyler era colour swatches ;
But as SoupDragon said, getting a match to the current aged paint is the best option. My local autopaint shops have limited pigments left for cellulose mixing, due to the move to 2 pack paints - whereas AutoPaint St Helens came up trumps for me with aerosol 400ml cans (before I went for a colour change respray in 2 pack from them)
Might still be useful though to know what the original colour was though
Might still be useful though to know what the original colour was though
Comp van is Steve Williams’ same colour as mine which is Bermuda Blue I think
Sorry that’s the one :-:
Always get it mixed to suit. Cellulose, 2-pack, waterbourne, acrylic etc will always come out different colours even if the same paint code numbers are put into the mix machine. Not to mention fade.
