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Re: Paint matching

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Paint matching
From: msecres@ibm.net
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 20:46:50 -0400
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <354CF91C.7B70@ibm.net> <354CFF6F.74B60DD7@gte.net>
Joe Curry wrote:
> 
> Martin, You have hit upon the quandary that many a used car buyer has
> experienced.  To my knowledge, there is no possible way to know for sure
> what you have.  Now you have the justification to respray the whole car
> with an original color. 
[snip]
> 
> 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?
> > --
> 
>

Let's make a huge leap for a minute.  Judging from a color page for
Triumphs that I'm looking at, I suppose my car might be closest to 
"Spa White," the color code for which John Thomason's book says is N/A.
Has anyone found a reasonable match for Spa White somewhere?

--
MS

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