[Tigers] Forest green

[Ross Hulse]

When I did the restoration of my car I went to SAOCA to get a disks that
was color copies of the paint codes I needed.  These disks were a match to
colors taken from portions of the cars that had never been exposed to sun.
I have a disk for Seafoam Grey and Commodore Blue.  They are perfect
matches to the original colors.

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 7:41 AM Ron Fraser via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Chris
>         These are all good points.
>
> I started this subject mostly because all the paint codes we have for the
> Rootes paints do not compute into today's paint codes.
> The color atlas at the paint store has over 200 shades of green.
> The CA280 paint code for Forest Green gives me a starting point for a
> color mix the paint store recognizes that may or may not need tweaking for
> a color match.
>
> I also stated that I would be nice to have a modern paint code for all the
> Rootes paint colors so everyone has a starting point to touch up their
> paint or more.
>
> Ron Fraser
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Chris Thompson
> via Tigers
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 9:35 PM
> To: Jay Laifman <jay.laifman at gmail.com>; Gary <garywinblad at comcast.net>
> Cc: Darrell Mountjoy <dsmtjoy at cox.net>; Tiger's Den <tigers at autox.team.net
> >
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Forest green
>
> When I repainted my Lotus Formula Ford, I painted it Jaguar BRG (and John
> Deere yellow).  It was very close to the BRG on the Tiger as I received it
> 30 years ago or so. I should not have said that none of us got pinged any
> points - I can't swear by the others.  I can only swear I wasn't pinged any
> points at the concours for what I know is not the stock color.
>
> But what my original point was is that getting touch-up paint for original
> color code 86 is not likely to help you as I suspect at this point few
> green cars still have this original shade.
>
> B382000331
>
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