Brad Kahler wrote:
>
> Listers,
>
> Here is an update on my quest for information on the color Velasquez
> Cream. Thanks to Jonmac I found out that this color was only used on
> around 20-30 cars total and only during the year 1961. Then a little later I
> got a post from Don Marshall who just happened to have the Acme color
> code for this color!! He mentioned that he got it out of an original Triumph
> Damage Repair manual. So now I had the company and color number. The
> only thing missing was where in the hell am I going to find an Acme paint
> store. Started to think I was in one of the Road Runner Cartoons!! To the
> rescue came Fred Thomas who just happened to know that Sherwin-
> Williams owned Acme. (Fred did you get that from watching the cartoons?)
>
> Well, armed with that info I called the local Sherwin-Williams auto paint
> store and would you believe it, they said they could mix that color. Talk
> about being shocked! So within 12 hours of having posted my request,
> with little hope of success I might add, I had a place that could mix the
>paint
> for me. Less than 4 hours later I had a 1/2 pint can of this elusive paint in
> my hands. Now all I have to do is decide whether I want to use this color
> or not.
>
> I would have to say the list came through with flying colors.
>
> Thanks to all involved.
>
> Brad (Lincoln Nebraska 402-464-1502)
> My 1st attempt at a web site. Http://www.141.com/triumphs
>
> 1964 Spitfire4 BFC25720L
> 1973 Spitfire Mk IV (for sale or trade?)
> 1962 TR4 CT288L (To Maine or bust)
> 1959 TR3A TS41311L (someday)
> 1951 Dodge Truck 82217766 B-3-B-108
Well...flying COLOR anyway.
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Michael Ferguson
Vernon CT
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