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Good advise from Gary here. I believe there is also a bmw colour
that is close. One of the issues is the grade or size of metallic
particles added to the paint. Many modern metallics have more bling
than the older varieties so there can be some experimentation
required. A good paint guy can add a finer metallic to the correct
blue shade.<br>
Cheers<br>
Larry<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/10/2015 2:15 PM,
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<div> <font size="2">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
<br>
G.<br>
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<div style="clear:both"><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><i>Gary Anderson</i><br>
Editor-in-Chief, The Star Magazine<br>
Mercedes-Benz Club of America<br>
<font size="2">Registrar, Austin-Healey Concours Registry.</font><br>
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