I went to the paint store today. Guy asked for a couple days to match it up right. Wanted to go a few tries to let it dry and check it. I left the headlight trim ring to match it to. Guess i'll see how it goes. There is more to matching paint than just a number. The older the paint the more it has faded. If it has been repainted then the color is only as good as the last guy to mix it. I'm getting a quart so i can repaint the rear valance that was replaced at some time with a poorly matched paint.



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Yep, your rite on the matching up business, I used to be in the auto body business. And i know all too well about matching paint color. Matter of fact the metallics of the late 60's and earlie 70's that we had to match, we would order the paint from Ford...the lime greens and metallic browns just couldnt be matched by local paint store, so on newer cars we often painted the whole side of the car instead of painting a fender or door that was repaired.It was really bad at times cause even Fords paint on the car of the same color code changed from one car to another and the Ford paint didnt match 2 different new cars.Too bad we didnt have computer matching back then..
I was thinkin more for touching up chips on the front edge of the hood in my case.

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