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Re: Paint matching

To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Subject: Re: Paint matching
From: msecres@ibm.net
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 18:30:22 -0400
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.980503224117.26837C-100000@unix2.nysed.gov>
Andrew Mace wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 May 1998 msecres@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yo, triumphers ...
> >
> > Small quandry.  My GT6 was resprayed white by the P-O, but I have no
> > information on the color, and I would like to do some touch up here and
> > there.  As you know, there are a million shades of white, and I've tried
> > about five at this point without a match.  Can I hit it on the head
> > somehow?  One auto paint shop has a color "scanner," but the dude said
> > (yeah, he was a dude)that it was viable only for a base coat/clear coat
> > finish, which is not what I have.  Suggestions?
> 
> Martin, perhaps the dude meant that base/clear was the only sort of paint
> they could provide? I'd recommend trying another paint shop. I know of
> one in my area that, several years ago, was able to match up the
> ever-popular Coffee color for a local Herald owner (not me, but I'll need
> to do it someday as well), by means of a scan of the inside of the trunk lid.
> 
> --Andy
> 
I shall.  Thanks, dude.

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MS

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