[Healeys] Ice Blue Metallic

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 Your very best bet is to not worry at all about the paint code numbers for specific Healey colors -- those are nothing more than inventory numbers. There is NO perfect undeniably accurate shade in existence.

What you need to do is find the very best Healey Blue/Ice Blue Metallic car you can find and have your paint source mix a color to match it. If you're repainting a car that was that color, find an area that hasn't been exposed to light and use that as your sample. If not, borrow the best car you can find and ask that the color be matched.

Then, have a small sample mixed and sprayed out on a good-sized (foot-square at least) piece of metal, complete with clear coat if it's a two-pack paint that you're using. From there you can say, "lighter" or "darker" or "less metallic" or whatever and have a second sample mixed and sprayed out. Once you've got a good sample piece, then tell your painter to use that as their comparison on the car when they spray it. 

If for some reason, you have absolutely no access to an Ice Blue Metallic Healey, and there are no pieces on your own car that you like, then you might check with your automobile paint dealer and ask them to look up and mix a sample of the contemporary Mercedes-Benz paint for "Ice Blue Metallic." It isn't a typical paint shade that was used a lot by MB, but it is in the standard paint catalogs for Mercedes-Benz cars from the past decade. Then you can adjust the shade to suit your own idea of what Healey Blue should look like.

G.

 

Gary Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, The Star Magazine
Mercedes-Benz Club of America
Registrar, Austin-Healey Concours Registry.

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