Rick the paint website helped. I sent it to the owner and he thinks he
knows the color. I will still get the color scanned to verify if he is right in
Rosenberg
at AJ Foyt’s paint. We still don’t know the trim color, but
we’re working on it. One problem is viewing the color on your monitor. I
plan on checking the color chip out at a local body shop tomorrow.
I have also sent emails to PPG and DuPont. What will it hurt?
Again thanks!
From: Rick Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006
6:27 PM
To: The
Chevelle Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Custom
Paint color?
Dan There is
or was a website at www.autocolorlibrary.com
You could look at most colors from 1980 to present. BUT I ggogled
to find it, and each time I click on the link , IE locks up.
May be something going on here at work. When I used it in the past,
it was an excellent site to look at a variety of colors.
On 10/27/06, Dan
Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I talked to Jesse at AJ
Foyt and they have some kind of scanner that does
the job. He said some times it works very well and sometimes it doesn't.
We'll see.
I have called so many people trying to find the original owner. I'm not
through looking, but it hasn't been easy! The truck looks great and the
color combination is so unique, and it would not be my choice if I was going
to have a truck painted, but...after you look at it a while, you really like
it. Everyone I have sent a picture to, including Primedia Publications liked
it! It has a few small problem areas and only needs a touch up not a repaint
job.
The second owner said he thought it was Ford Colors from around 1990. I
don't know where to look for 1990's Ford paint colors. I thought he told me
Chevy colors, now it's Ford colors, but I might have heard him wrong! I wish
I could find the magazine and article the truck was in!
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Devin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:15 AM
To: The Chevelle Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Custom Paint color?
Dan- Don't rely on a picure to accuratly represent the colors of
your new
baby. Good paint stores should be able to take a machine out to the
vehicle
to analyze the paint color and reproduce it.
Devin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Mascheck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Chevelle Mailing List'"
< chevelle-list@chevelles.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: [Chevelle-list] Custom Paint color?
> I know this is off topic, but I'm buying a 1946 Chevy Truck. It has a few
> paint spot problems I want to correct, but I don't want to repaint the
whole
> truck. Even if I had to paint the whole truck I would want it painted the
> same colors.
>
> The problem is, the original owner that had the truck painted, got a
divorce
> and moved away, and to date I have not been able to find him! His name is
a
> popular one and I found about 100 Jim Baird's with no assurance any are
him.
>
> What can you do to find out what colors you have on a vehicle? I know the
> truck was painted in Austin, TX., which should narrow it down to several
> million choices. I need some spiritual help! Surely there is a way to run
a
> spectral analysis of a paint color.
>
> I was told the colors are Chevy colors that are about 17 years old! I have
> my doubts. The truck was in a magazine called "Pickups and Panel
Trucks" I
> was told. No one has heard of the magazine including the editor
of
Primedia
> Publications
>
> HELP!
>
> What do you use to convert a Jpeg Pic to HTML?
>
> Dan Mascheck
>
>
>
>
--
Rick Schaefer
72 TPI El Camino
