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RE: Paint Codes

To: "Terry Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Paint Codes
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:43:29 -0700
> Visited my bodyshop guy today.  My choice of colors for my TR3A restoration
> was going to be royal blue.  I looked up the paint numbers on the internet,
> gave them to him, and he's found out his paint suppliers can't duplicate that
> anymore.  They seem to have tossed it all.

What kind of bodyshop doesn't mix their own paint ?  Even One Day (which is only
a step or two above Earl Scheib) mixes their own paint !

> Anybody have the modern equivalent of the old TR royal blue (from the TR-4's I
> think).

Find a decent bodyshop, then tell them you want PPG 13126.  Mine mixed the color
I wanted on the spot and showed me what it looked like wet (since I wanted some
metalflake added).

BTW, if you Google for "triumph paint codes ppg" without the quotes, you'll find
all sorts of pages.  The above number came from Joe Curry's at :
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1080/paintcodes.html

Randall


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