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1957 Interior Color Codes

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Where would a guy find the color codes/charts for the interior paint on a '57? I would like to touch up a couple of areas on my red dash. I'm going to assume and hope that when it was restored they used an authentic color. All I can find are exterior colors. Does one assume it is 'flame red' just like what was used on the exterior that year? My exterior is authentic colonial white so I would hope the interior was an authentic color too. I just don't know where to find that info.

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kidclerk said:
Where would a guy find the color codes/charts for the interior paint on a '57? I would like to touch up a couple of areas on my red dash. I'm going to assume and hope that when it was restored they used an authentic color. All I can find are exterior colors. Does one assume it is 'flame red' just like what was used on the exterior that year? My exterior is authentic colonial white so I would hope the interior was an authentic color too. I just don't know where to find that info.

I appreciate the responses I've received to my questions these past few months!!
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If you are in a big city you might consider taking the door off the glove compartment and heading to a large paint supply company that can color match paint. It's extremely unlikely you will be able to mix paint by color codes and have it match what's already on the dash. When I wanted touch up for my exterior I tracked down the color codes but I also took my fuel door with me. The modern paints don't fit to the old formulas which are for paints that are no longer made. They made a little can of paint based on the "codes" and it didn't match at all. A guy who knew what he was doing and had a good eye took it and the fuel door to the back room and mixed up some paint that matched perfectly.
 
Just to back up Tom's comments, the best option is to find a company which has the expertise to match today's paints against an actual example of what's been put on the car x number of years ago. When I bought my car which had been restored in the early 2000's, both the vinyl door caps and the metal channels at the bottom of the door card were in a bad way. But by passing one of each as examples to the local car paint company that I've been using since I was 16 it was able to make up two aerosol cans, one of regular paint and the other one for the more specialist vinyl paint.
As an extra tip, when your given the new pain try askng for the paint code. It's a sort of shorthand for what has been used to make up the new paint match. That way if you need to go back for more at any time you can just quote the code rather than having to a) take something off the car again and b) hope that the guy who knows what he is doing is still working there.
 
SkidJames said:
Just to back up Tom's comments, the best option is to find a company which has the expertise to match today's paints against an actual example of what's been put on the car x number of years ago. When I bought my car which had been restored in the early 2000's, both the vinyl door caps and the metal channels at the bottom of the door card were in a bad way. But by passing one of each as examples to the local car paint company that I've been using since I was 16 it was able to make up two aerosol cans, one of regular paint and the other one for the more specialist vinyl paint.
As an extra tip, when your given the new pain try askng for the paint code. It's a sort of shorthand for what has been used to make up the new paint match. That way if you need to go back for more at any time you can just quote the code rather than having to a) take something off the car again and b) hope that the guy who knows what he is doing is still working there.
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The paint place I used makes enough paint for three spray cans with a little left over that they put in a small can with the paint formula printed out on it. Each formula is specific to the particular brand and type of paint that was used. That's one reason its so hard to get a match by "code". I may have posted this hear before but it's an interesting case study if not... Our Tbird club had a meeting and there were three blue cars lined up in a row. All under the same light, same angle, etc. As I looked down the row one of them looked definitely a different shade and the other two looked just about the same but not quite. Then in talking to the other guys there I found out that all three cars had been painted with the exact same paint, same batch, all cans mixed and remixed so every can was identical. Then the cars were all painted within a couple days of each other by the same painter. Yet each car looked like a slightly different shade of blue when they were side by side.
 
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