Original Color?

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1EarlyA

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Can someone please tell me if this is an original color on my 1928 A?
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BRENT in 10-uh-C said:
Yeah kinda. (Monitor & Camera lighting might have it skewed at tad too.) Look at Bonnie Gray & Chelsie Blue in the Paint & Refinish Guide chips.
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That's the closest I've seen yet. The car was "restored" in the '80s or '90s, so this is not original paint. Someone told me once that paint matches on a lot of the early Ford colors have been kind of hit or miss (more likely miss) relative to the true original colors. Is that a correct assessment?
 
1EarlyA said:
That's the closest I've seen yet. The car was "restored" in the '80s or '90s, so this is not original paint. Someone told me once that paint matches on a lot of the early Ford colors have been kind of hit or miss (more likely miss) relative to the true original colors. Is that a correct assessment?
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Yeah probably.

While that combination is definitely somewhat hit or miss at times, ...I tend to feel the two bigger 'misses' is the miss-tints of Copra & Chicle colors, and Ford Maroon colors. Nothing kills the value of a Model-A more than incorrect paint colors. Ironically, it basically costs the same amount to paint it correctly as it does to paint it incorrectly. ;)
 
Here is another 28 A the same color that i came across on the internet a few weeks ago.I guess this was a original color for 28?
 

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BRENT in 10-uh-C said:
Yeah probably.

While that combination is definitely somewhat hit or miss at times, ...I tend to feel the two bigger 'misses' is the miss-tints of Copra & Chicle colors, and Ford Maroon colors. Nothing kills the value of a Model-A more than incorrect paint colors. Ironically, it basically costs the same amount to paint it correctly as it does to paint it incorrectly. ;)
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Agree. The Copra and Chicle seem to have two trends - towards tan-ish and towards gray-ish. The Ford Maroon, from what I understand, is almost a brown in proper execution, but I've seen a lot of "Ford Maroon" that has more of a red blush. I'm in a fairly large club with a few iterations of the Ford Maroon, and for my car I think I'm just going to pick the one that I (and more importantly, my bride) like best and see if I can get it color-matched.

And I've seen quite a few iterations of Elkpoint and Kewanee Green.
 
JayJay said:
I think I'm just going to pick the one that I (and more importantly, my bride) like best and see if I can get it color-matched.
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After spending the last couple days looking at A pictures, I think I will probably end up driving to the paint store and having them match it.
I started this thread hoping I could just order the "correct color" so that I could do the touch up while the car is still sitting in my friends nice heated shop. May have to wait til nice weather, I guess.
 
1EarlyA said:
After spending the last couple days looking at A pictures, I think I will probably end up driving to the paint store and having them match it.
I started this thread hoping I could just order the "correct color" so that I could do the touch up while the car is still sitting in my friends nice heated shop. May have to wait til nice weather, I guess.
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You could take a relatively small piece like a hood panel or door into the paint store.
 
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