Superbirds only came in B-5 I have several friends with original paint superbirds and the B-5 in 70 looks darker on all of them ??? Just my observation . I'm sure allens numbers are correct but I know the cars i have seen look darker ? maybe age on original paint ??
I may be B5, angle and light do weird things to the color. Your over all picture is a little dark and it has a black top. Here is mine again at sunset just to show the changes
Lighting, paint type, paint age, application conditions, and several other factors can affect the look of a painted car. Also, several painters have told me that the metallics available now are slightly different from those back-in-the-day. The size and shape of the particles is apparently a little different due to manufacturing techniques used now. I would assume even back then, paint suppliers may have gotten components from different suppliers, and certainly many different painters using their favorite techniques were involved in the painting process, so variations had to occur.
Over two years ago when my EB5 colored 1969 Charger 500 project was getting to the point that I needed to start thinking about paint materials, I spent several weeks immersed in EB5 Blue "research"... see the dates on the attached photos. In the end, it was clear to me that the formula based paint was the best & safest material to use, and that adjustments could be made by modifying the application technique.
In the attached pictures below, the first shows comparing a formula based painted part (from a 1970 Road Runner in work at that time) to a protected area at the base of the windshield frame where the factory paint looked fresh. The second picture shows a series of test sprays at different pressures to see the visual differences... the changes were readily visible to the eye, but the camera does not capture them well. The third picture shows when we ran into trouble with a custom match mixing attempt, by that time we were doing comparisons to EB7, GB5, and any original or formula painted parts we could get our hands on. I even brought in an "expert" in B5 paint, my friend "B5 Dale" who has even named his engineering consulting company "B5 Design LLC". After a couple of weeks, I was back to square one, using the formal mix and only adjusting the application technique. The final picture just shows comparisons were made indifferent lighting conditions and to virtually anything available... everything had a slightly different look...
Since then the C500 project has sputtered, but is now finally on the verge of getting exterior color applied. I purchased the final batch of material a few days ago, so the paint application should occur in the next few weeks... I will start updating my restoration thread on DC.Com by this weekend.
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