Richard,
I went to my local NAPA store that sells paint products. They
"scanned" the color on the car and made up a bottle of touch up paint
and one of spray paint. If you go this route I would suggest getting a
small bottle of touch up paint to compare to the paint on the car or
asking to test the paint to see how it matches. After having mine
scanned I found it wasnt quite dark enough and the store tried
darkening it a couple times until it was pretty close. Ask around at
the different parts stores if they do it. If they dont ask the body
shops where they buy their paint. Often they will get it from a
specific auto paint store and they might be able to provide the same
service.
Aaron
Aaron Cropley
71 TR6 (Throttle Body Injection!)
http://www.triumphowners.com/108
Topsham, Maine
-----Original Message-----
From: richard triplett <rtriplett25@yahoo.com>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:16:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: getting touch-up paint for that "one-off" color
TS75434 was painted BRG a few years ago upon a body-on
restoration. No paint was saved, and the TR3A is
starting to show chips and scratches. Looking for
touch-up paint involves either "one shade fits all" or
"send us your code number and we'll send out a perfect
match". I've got no code numbers, but one of a hundred
shades of BRG on the car. This was truly demonstrated
when I went out on a run with three other TR3's, all
BRG and all starkly different in the shade of green.
Mine seems to be on the bluish side, but not terribly
so.
If I was in a large city, I'd imagine there would be
body shops that could scan the color and match it that
way. But, I'm in a little city with limited resources.
What's the best starting point in my quest for a close
color match?
Thanks,
Richard
TS75434
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