Lucas Brown Colour Code/Equivalent

[MatthewMyerscough]

Hi

I am just in the process of refurbishing an ignition coil for my Nippy and I need to paint it the 'Lucas brown' colour. I was just wondering if anyone has any paint recommendations and or a close RAL code equivalent? I'm also assuming it would have had a matt finish originally instead of gloss.

Thanks

Matthew

[John Cornforth]

Hi Matthew.

Is this the standard coil or something more exotic ? Lucas sports coils for example were painted "Polychromatic Brown" which is a gloss metallic beigey-gold colour. Sorry, I don't have any RAL equivalents.

If there is a flake of original paint still showing I suggest you take the coil down to Halfords and try for a match with their car paints.

[colina]

or take a trip to B&Q (other DIY stores are available) with your paint sample and they should be able to scan it using their Valspar scanning system and mix you some. The only problem is that their smallest tin is probably 750ml and I suspect that is rather more than you might need

I successfully did this for a Colchester lathe - much cheaper than genuine Colchester paint

https://www.valsparpaint.co.uk/colour-to...our-match/