1958 paint color formula

[Ted K.]

Looking for the formula or a source for the formula for 1958 Snowcrest White and Signet Red. Any help would be appreciated.

[Ted K.]

Re: 1958 paint color formula

I went to auto paint store and they were able to cross over the paint color formula. The current color is now Dover White, same formula.

[Dick W.]

Re: 1958 paint color formula

I went to auto paint store and they were able to cross over the paint color formula. The current color is now Dover White, same formula.

Be sure to spray a test panel before you paint the car. The offset colors that the paint stores use sometimes match/sometimes barely in the same color family

[Paul K.]

Re: 1958 paint color formula

Hello Ted
We just painted our 58 Snowcrest white, we sent 3 spray out sample's from 3 different suppliers to the national painting judge who has original paint chips. He told us CHROMABASE 2697k now called dover white was a very, very close match, CHROMABASE is from the axalta brand.


Paul Klemetson

[James G.]

Re: 1958 paint color formula

PLEASE UTILIZE THE SERVICE REFERENCED in the previous post BY PAUL.
There is no cost as a member and if you are planning on having it flight judged you will be much happier when your paint scores with minimal deductions.
Do your spray outs and send the cards to Ames and/or Ballenger.
If you are light on time or wish to best utilize painting time it is best to do a couple of different mixtures or spraying techniques and keep them separate through a chart A B C etc.
As an aside if going from a converted mix or a scan of a color go ahead and reduce your metallic content by about 25% prior to a sprayout... the chances of being told that your metallic is too low is slim to none.

The metallics change the most -
first - there will be too much metallic on the conversion when going from lacquer to base clear-
Second - it's the layered color depth - lacquer is semi-tranlucent which reflects and refracts light differently than light penetrating a clear layer hitting a base color then being bounced back through clear and out.

There are ways to shoot which more resemble lacquer and will pass judging for application but most professionals will not share...