[Healeys] Touch Up Paint

[philritten at aol.com]

I spoke with a gentleman who told me that I needed to get paint from Sherwin Williams, then he would add some kind of compound to it to make it into touch up paint. I guess it must be some kind of preservative to keep the paint from hardening over time. Does that sound familiar to anyone, or is it a gimmick?
Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
To: philritten at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 9:29 am
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Touch Up Paint



Phil,


Any good automotive paint shop should be able to match your paint pretty closely 
with a colorimeter.  I had my "Colorado Red" match perfectly to GM "Peking Red" 
(what a coincidence ;).  

They will likely have a minimum--probably 1pt--which could set you back $40-50 
with catalyst, but IMO it's worth it for a good match (you can always use it to 
touch up frame bare spots).  They might be able to do an aerosol as well.


bs

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Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell at comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: philritten at aol.com
> I got a number of paint chips on my car going to the Conclave. I've tried 
going 
> to Pep Boys to see if any of their touch up paint colors will match, but none 
> do. Does anyone have an idea of how to have a custom color matched, and little 

> bit of paint made?
> ?
> Thanks