Paint colour codes

[Lance Sheldrick]

Agreed Mike, the light over a whole vehicle changes everything. It should also be remembered that the colour cards are a guide only and not a definitive answer. They were used in the paintshop to either identify the colour of a car, or give a prospective customer an idea of how their car could look if repainted another colour. Small amounts of colour top coat would be made on the spot from basic colours kept in stock and larger quantities ordered from the local paint factors. Both of these sources would then have to be tinted to match a particular car. I'm sure that variants existed even back then.

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Yes Jon, the cherry red one is quite dark and more like a burgundy, especially when compared to the other two nippy colours of turquoise and primrose.