My car is almost ready for paint but the painter has had some issues finding the color by the original codes (Coronado Gold). Now, take it with a grain of salt, he was going through a local parts store and they normally can find OEM colors but said they couldn't find anything on the Coronado Color (I gave them the sheet with all the codes, Dupont, Ditzler, PPG, ect).
Is there some other place that would carry this color, or, a way to mix it from a base? He mentioned using the color scanner but I thought those were approximations.
My body shop had the same hard time finding Coronado a few yers back. Im sure I could get the mix code for you next week if you still need it. It came out beautiful. I have pictures under my signature if you want to look.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
You need the paint shop mix up a test batch and do a test on top of the primer base you are using. I had a paint shop mix up Aegean blue from the gm paint code and it wasn't close to what I have seen. I have actually seen 3 Aegean blue birds and all 3 were a different shade. Paint matching is also difficult to do on a color that sun fades over the years.
Not sure what brand paint you are planning to use. I went with Dupont Chromabase. I ended up calling Dupont for a code as my paint shop couldn't find a cross reference from the old formula numbers to the new numbers. Anyway, Dupont gave me YM029 as a Chromabase code for Coronado Gold. It looks great on my car. Not sure it's 100% correct, but I haven't seen an original Coronado Gold car to compare it to and there was no original paint left on my car when I got it.
