Paint schemes
Safety Car
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From: los altos hills california
1967 Pedal Car Champion
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From: US-PNW
You are kinda on a windmill hunt for an unobtainable standard. Looking at XYZ computer maker's screen color rendition (from an unknown camera and post processing) versus reflected light from actual paint will be unreliable. Then there is the fact that paint mixes vary by a wide margin given the chemistry (lacquer, base/clear, enamel, metal flake size and density) and application over XYZ primer. There are paint chip sample pages that were used as a reference with color codes for paint shops, but these are quite unreliable in many respects due to printing variances and aging. They were only intended as a rough guide. Lastly, there are individual GM Standard Reference color chips, about the size of a library check out card (!), that were intended for color matching. These come up on eBay but you need to know which color you are after.
Burning Brakes
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https://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.a..._chev_corvette
Here ya go!
It's crazy that we all have smartphones, and could easily take a reference PICTURE of a well known, freely distributed, standard PRINTED color chart, take a
second picture of the desired color / existing paint, etc. and have it
A) Automatically calibrate/correct our PC Monitor, TV, ...
B) Order paint for us at Home Depot, Ditzler, DuPont, etc.
My car looks "International Blue 978 " in most photographs, but it's much closer to LeMans Blue 976" in daylight.
Here's truly my FAVORITE color: https://i.imgur.com/75TMJRa.jpg
Here ya go!
It's crazy that we all have smartphones, and could easily take a reference PICTURE of a well known, freely distributed, standard PRINTED color chart, take a
second picture of the desired color / existing paint, etc. and have it
A) Automatically calibrate/correct our PC Monitor, TV, ...
B) Order paint for us at Home Depot, Ditzler, DuPont, etc.
My car looks "International Blue 978 " in most photographs, but it's much closer to LeMans Blue 976" in daylight.
Here's truly my FAVORITE color: https://i.imgur.com/75TMJRa.jpg
Le Mans Master
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From: Omaha NE
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Race Director
Joined: Oct 2000
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From: Shamong, NJ
Go here, pick a brand, pick a year, pick a model and pick a color.
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcod...make=Chevrolet
Chances are that nothing you see on line will 100% accurately represent what a color looks like on a car, when you see it in person. From lighting, exposure, pixels, etc, so many things can effect the shade and appearance of a color, that images on a computer can vary widely from the real world appearance. Based on lighting (the time of day and artificial verse natural lighting in particular), colors can even vary dramatically when you actually see them in person.
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcod...make=Chevrolet
Chances are that nothing you see on line will 100% accurately represent what a color looks like on a car, when you see it in person. From lighting, exposure, pixels, etc, so many things can effect the shade and appearance of a color, that images on a computer can vary widely from the real world appearance. Based on lighting (the time of day and artificial verse natural lighting in particular), colors can even vary dramatically when you actually see them in person.
