24-12-2018, 12:54 PM
One thing I would strongly suggest is to stay away from modern British Standard or RAL shades if you can help it. Though they do make it a lot lot easier for touching it up down the line.
From my experience though its hard to explain they tend to be too 'strong' in colour. Shades from the pre-war era didn't have perhaps pureness is the wrong word but something along those lines. They tended towards subtlety.
If it looks 'right' it generally is 'right' with colour, but I've seen some Austins (and others) that just scream 'wrong'. That said we are all a mixed bunch, I doubt the man who paints his car luminous flamingo pink would do so if he didn't like it......
From my experience though its hard to explain they tend to be too 'strong' in colour. Shades from the pre-war era didn't have perhaps pureness is the wrong word but something along those lines. They tended towards subtlety.
If it looks 'right' it generally is 'right' with colour, but I've seen some Austins (and others) that just scream 'wrong'. That said we are all a mixed bunch, I doubt the man who paints his car luminous flamingo pink would do so if he didn't like it......