70ChargerRT
Well-Known Member
Did anyone see this car at MCACN? Someone posted this awesome 70 GTX on Facebook and said it scored almost a perfect score, for what? IDK, maybe restoration I’m guessing, I didn’t dig too deep. I just want to talk about the Exterior paint matching. The paint code in reference is 1970 FF4 used on Dodges and Plymouths. The same as my car. I know lighting plays a big role on cars but the color still doesn’t look correct. I wouldn’t think 50 year old hood spring paint would be the best place to get a paint match to achieve a concourse type of restoration but this is what some people claimed the owner matched it up to and as seen in the picture as claimed it does look like he left the original paint on the hood springs and matched the paint to it as some has stated and he wanted to show that in which I think his way of Thinking to achieve the way the paint left the factory is wrong. Was he trying to match 50 year old exterior paint on purpose, a faded look or was he actually thinking that hood spring paint is what the paint look liked when it left the factory? Again I don’t know but they were many people bragging on the car on how great of a job he did with the paint matching compared to the hood springs and I’m setting here thinking to myself, looks like an awesome restoration, I’m just questioning the paint color. Heck IDK. Maybe I’m dead wrong and I’ll Be the first person to eat crow and admit it but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a FF4 in this shade of green in any lighting. If someone had some more pics of it maybe I’d change my mind. I wanted to use BC/CC on my car and still get it close to original as possible for my restomod. For matching I used my firewall where I took my power brake booster off and it looked just like the day it left the factory, not even close to the 50 year old faded hood spring paint on this GTX. I had a bunch of pics for comparison through photobucket but those pics are long gone and this bad pic on the rotisserie is all I have left. I didn’t do paint chip matching from the firewall but instead I tried several paint manufacturers by trying the paint codes. The closest paint match to the firewall was in single stage PPG because of course they still have the original paint formula, the paint was almost dead nuts to a match. The base for CC was almost dead nuts also but when I applied the clear it brought out some of the gold but with BC/CC, especially the PPG custom clear, in certain lighting it looks like all different shades of green which I personally like. If you guys were trying to actually match the original paint what methods would you use in achieving a close as possible color match like they left the factory? Let’s discuss sags in paint and poor gaps in another discussion please lol.
