1965 Dodge Dart Charger

65dartcharger said
PPG Sweden called me and said that they could be able to provide me with solid paint for my car. The old paint test sheets was with clearcoat!! :banghead: When I got back home from work I found these test pieces. Not sure what they are called!!LOL

When I compared the test sheets I found a yellow which is almost as it was. It is a little more yellow compare to the old test. The left upper little piece is the solid paint.

The gold metallic is almost the same. The test piece to the right is the one that I think is most like the stock piece.

Any comments?

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showpost.php?p=1970261483&postcount=1925

I can't figure out which picture you are describing. All the samples in your first picture looks way to yellow to me for AA-1. Is your car AA-1?

Some of the samples in the second picture look right to me. But my sense of what's right is based on pictures of cars on the Internet since my car was long since repainted.

I have been operating under the assumption that the interior and exterior golds are basically the same color with different sheen. Perhaps this is a bad assumption. I bought a page out of the PPG Ditzler book for the 1965 colors. The AA-1 has a definite taupe look to it which I hope is not correct because I really don't care for it.

I did find the original interior gold paint under the ash tray bezel. Since I had to drill out the rivets, I think it must be un-faded original paint. I've matched this to a paint code of BH used on 1999 Lincoln Continentals.

Here are some pictures taken outdoors on a partly sunny day that shows all the colors. That large piece of metal is a test spray of a color I had mixed at a local paint store in Omni paint by PPG based on the original code. The Lincoln color is a good match to the ashtray and also not too far from the Omni sample. I would say that it's a bit brighter and the metallic is a bit heavier which is a plus for me, although I know it would be a negative for you.