> Visited my bodyshop guy today. My choice of colors for my TR3A restoration
> was going to be royal blue. I looked up the paint numbers on the internet,
> gave them to him, and he's found out his paint suppliers can't duplicate that
> anymore. They seem to have tossed it all.
What kind of bodyshop doesn't mix their own paint ? Even One Day (which is only
a step or two above Earl Scheib) mixes their own paint !
> Anybody have the modern equivalent of the old TR royal blue (from the TR-4's I
> think).
Find a decent bodyshop, then tell them you want PPG 13126. Mine mixed the color
I wanted on the spot and showed me what it looked like wet (since I wanted some
metalflake added).
BTW, if you Google for "triumph paint codes ppg" without the quotes, you'll find
all sorts of pages. The above number came from Joe Curry's at :
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1080/paintcodes.html
Randall
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