What colours are these
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This roadster in the pictures appears to be a 28 (no outside door handles). Assuming it is a 28, I believe it is Arabian Sand Light. My 28 special coupe is Arabian Sand Dark, which is darker than the car in your picture. Arabian Sand Light was only used on open cars. My advice is to purchase the Model A Ford Paint & Finishing Guide. The book has paint chips in it. I believe the book is about $35 at model A parts suppliers. It has all the paint colors original used on model A's. One more suggestion, when you decide on a color, have the paint supplier make up the smallest amount possible before you buy what you need to paint your car. This way you can make sure it is what you want and it matches the paint chip in the booklet. I was burned twice with PPG having the wrong color formula that didn't match the paint book chip, which I believe is accurate. One more thing - Andalusite Blue is almost black/purple. It is way too dark in my opinion, but to each his own.
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Larry Jenkins
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Kinda resembles Stone Brown and Stone Deep Grey..
BILL WILLIAMSON
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Believe it or not, IF I wanted to CHANGE Vermins' color, I have a Master Painter FRIEND, Chuck Kallas, who is a MASTER taper/masker & he could make the car look like it had been taken apart, to paint it!!! He's a Master Model A Mechanic, also. A RARE combination & he's my "SON" also.
Bill W.
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J Franklin
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Bill now everyone will want to adopt him!
I am in the process of painting my 1929 cabriolet Andalusite Blue and had four panels painted with minor tweaks to the PPG Envirobase formula I ended up with just a bit of black and a bit of violet pulled out of the formula I used to spray the whole car. It is still a dark purplish blue, but it does not turn black as quickly when in reduced light.
If you have the time to play and are not doing a points restoration, that might be an option. I kept the color as that is the color it was when my dad bought it new.
the 4 colors are upper right (original), lower right and lower left (less violet), and upper left (less toilet and less black). Under full light they all look nearly the same. My choice actually has just a bit more black than the upper left sample.[
If you have the time to play and are not doing a points restoration, that might be an option. I kept the color as that is the color it was when my dad bought it new.
the 4 colors are upper right (original), lower right and lower left (less violet), and upper left (less toilet and less black). Under full light they all look nearly the same. My choice actually has just a bit more black than the upper left sample.[
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BILL WILLIAMSON
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There are some AMAZING colors available, that look like BLACK, but in the right light, they may be BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, etc!!! Even the original Ford Dark Maroon looks BLACK, in subdued light.
I remember when we visited Gene Winfield, in Modesto, Ca, to view his first CANDY APPLE BLACK. He wouldn't divulge his "SECRETS"!
Bill W.
I remember when we visited Gene Winfield, in Modesto, Ca, to view his first CANDY APPLE BLACK. He wouldn't divulge his "SECRETS"!
Bill W.
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BRENT in 10-uh-C
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Candy Apple Black (a/k/a Black Cherry) was nothing more than a Black Lacquer base coat followed with 3-4 coats of a Red lacquer toner sprayed, then followed by Hi-Performance Clear lacquer sprayed over the top of all of it. The Red toners were opaque, so the more coats that were applied, the darker it was. Different shades of Red Candy Apple were accomplished by either using a White, Silver, or Gold Base with the same Red toners applied. Gene really had nothing that was a secret, as the custom painters in that era were all following the same protocol.
Below is a couple of pictures of a show car that I assembled and showed for a businessman back in my early 20s. It was sprayed in lacquer toners, followed with Imron Clear. You can see the differences between the Candy Black and straight Black. Ironically, this car was the highest finishing Ford show car in the country for 3 consecutive years back in early 80s. Other than the Pinto engine (which came out of my first car), nothing on that car was manufactured by Ford!
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BILL WILLIAMSON
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BEAUTFUL CAR, Brent!!!! I wish I had your TALENTS!!!!
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BILL WILLIAMSON
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J,
Minerva had a mediocre BLACK, Lacquer paint job around '96???
Chuck Kallas straightened & refined ALL the fenders, repainted the fenders, running board splash shields & radiator splash shields, with synthetic enamel, with a hardener & after 3 days in the sun, he cut & polished them, along with the WHOLE body. She looked as though she had a COMPLETE high dollar restoration.
NO sign of overspray, ANYWHERE!! Chuck's a MASTER masker, with the hood off, he cocooned the engine, firewall & everything else that might get overspray. "The Kid" did my RED factory pin striping & the car looked MAGNIFICENT
I could write a book about Chuck, if I culd tipe
NOW, he's building 3 identical '30-'31 CCPU's, simultaneously, to sell, cuz he likes to EAT
OH, I forgot to acknowledge HENRY,
Chucks' MAIN MAN, who helps Chuck do MARVELOUS work!!Bill Happy
