Hi Lew,
It is disappointing that you have not been able to find it. I used my
last can a year or two back when I repainted my wheels, and assumed that
a color used by Ford for 20 years or so would still be available.
Apparently not, alas. On my shelf of rattle cans I have a Plasti-Kote GM
7161 that seems about right.
The TD wheels were not a bright silver. Difficult to describe, but
when you see a wheel that is too bright its color stands out. The Ford
color was silver but appears to me to be a bit darker than Krylon or
Rustoleum sprays. If you can't find the Ford argent, it would seem that
poking around the cans of touch-up paint, both auto and truck, at the
auto parts store would uncover one that is close enough that it does not
matter. Next time I am in NAPA, I will look.
Bob
On Sat, 16 May 2009 08:37:58 -0500 "Lew Palmer"
<lpalmer@roundaboutmanor.com> writes:
> Bob,
>
> I have recently been repainting some TD wheels and have tried
> without
> success to find any supplied of the correct silver-gray paint. You
> mention
> Ford Argent, but that is not showing up in any manufacturer's books.
> Also,
> there is no current reference to any of the paint codes on "The
> Original MG
> TD" web site.
>
> Does anyone have a color formula for the Ford Argent?
>
> Cheers,
> Lew Palmer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mg-t-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:mg-t-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Bob Howard
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:06 AM
> To: sumton@sbcglobal.net
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net; Mg-t@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Mg-t] paint
>
> For the wheels TD - MGB, Duplicolor Ford Argent is a good
> match.
> For the TD engine maroon, everyone seems to have different
> memories.
> Some prefer the Moss color. Some like the Duplicolor truck paint
> #278
> Dark Canyon Red.
> For the rocker cover, the Moss paint is considered best match. It
> was
> not a pure silver silver, rather one that had a bit of greenish
> tint.
> Colors were not as consistent 50 years ago as they are today. As
> color
> memory is unreliable, one makes a good try at matching body
> original
> paint that is hidden in an enclosed area (behind the interior trim,
> inside doors, etc). Engine paint is affected by heat, water, oil,
> gas,
> time, degreasers, etc. The most protected area of engine paint would
> seem
> to be on the back toward the clutch, but who is to say today what
> the
> color was in 1952.
> Marcham Rhoade ( Ken Smith ) in his book Aspects of Abingdon,
> devotes
> a number of pages to paint and paint rectification of MGBs. In one
> section he mentions rectification artists with palettes of paint
> used to
> touch up cars. One infers that MGB colors were not consistent,
> some
> years after the TDs were built.
> Bob
>
>
>
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 05:46:48 -0500 "oliver" <sumton@sbcglobal.net>
> writes:
> > are there some standard household equivalents (like krylon or
> > rustoleum) for
> > the silver wheel paint and the dark red/maroon engine paint?
> >
> > is the color pretty standard through the years or did they change
>
> > tints substantially from the 52 TD to later cars?
> >
> > thanks!
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