Dark Green Metallic cars!!

PPG has the correct paint codes but only if it is single stage enamel. If you want to paint your car with a base/clear, PPG's color will be off. They cross reference it by computer to the closest match and that is what they will mix. I had to take a couple original doors and polish the paint in the jam and have Color Masters computer match it so I could get a base/clear code to paint my car the original color. PPG cross referenced mine to a 79 Toyota color which was a couple shades darker and not enough metallic, it looked close but not original. Mine is correct now but the shade changes depending on what lighting it is under. Dupont was the same way, their version of my color was from a mid 80's Jag. I was told they all do this because they don't want to spend the money to refigure the single stage codes to base/clear. Ever since I found this out I started looking closely at the cars in shows and if you know what you are looking at you can see that there is a lot of them that are off.

A good paint store will give you a sample mix so you can make sure it is what you want before you have them mix it. I'm going through this right now on my 68 Dart which is I think FF1 green.