In a message dated 9/18/10 5:19:23 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
writes:
> Rich was nice enough to send me non PPG paint codes for Healey blue, but
> I
> need either a conversion web site or the PPG code for the color for my BT
> 7
> 1960
>
Just for the heck of it, when you're talking to your paint supplier, ask
them to check to see if they have the codes for metallic light blue as used by
Mercedes-Benz in the early 1960s -- say for a 230SL. It's worth looking at.
It isn't 100 percent, but a very attractive shade of color very close to
ice blue metallic with just a tad more purple and less green (essentially more
magenta and less yellow in the mixture). I've had that color on my car
since 1991, and just discovered a few weeks ago that it's identical to the
Mercedes color used during the period. The clue was when I found the can of
left-over paint in my garage, and written in magic marker on the can were the
words "Mercedes Blue" -- so I checked out an original M-B roadster from the
same period. Sure enough...
Nice color, and pretty easy to find at restoration specialist paint shops.
Gary
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