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dagranger

07-09-2012 @ 10:15 AM

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need to get the manufacturer and codes of cloud mist grey for 40 ford. any help would be appreciated.

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07-09-2012 @ 5:23 PM

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Due to the change in paint formulation, the old codes are no longer valid. The best way to get close to the original is to look for a part on your car that is least weathered. Have a good auto paint dealer use an instrument to analyze the color and translate it to a modern coating that will match.

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07-10-2012 @ 7:12 AM

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PPG has an antique car paint service available to their vendors. They will provide a formula that is close to the original color and the vendor can mix it for you. I would suggest a small sample for your first order and spray it on a panel. If you are satisfied with the color, order a large enough quantity to paint the car with an extra quart that you will use to fix problems.

You can see the paint chips, get the paint codes and order paint from TCP Global.

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/

Cloudmist grey is my favorite color on a 40 coupe. It is a pale green color that sets off the coupe's lines very well.

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07-10-2012 @ 7:41 AM

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This site lists the modern numbers for many years and makes of cars, Here is the 1940 link:

http://mustangattitude.com/cgibin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=1940

If you go to the second page you will see Ford colors and Cloud mist gray is 30027 PPG

If you take this number to a PPG store they should be able to mix it in Urethatne which might have a differnt number, I think that is an enamel number.
They also list a DuPont number

I used this site for the Acadia Green for my 40 woodie and I am really pleased with the result.

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07-10-2012 @ 7:46 AM

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Pasting the link seemed to not work the first time will try again:

http://mustangattitude.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=1940&page=2&rows=50

hope this works

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07-10-2012 @ 11:13 AM

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I had my '40 coupe painted with PPG urethane Cloud Mist Gray, mixed according to their formula rather than matched. Some think it came out too light. Others think it is right on. It's fun to look at several Cloud Mist Gray cars lined up on the show field. They are all different colors. The attached photo is fairly true to the color of my car (to my eye). I recommend having a large test sample painted before proceeding to paint the whole car.

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07-10-2012 @ 4:47 PM

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I had a 40 Standard Opera coupe back in the mid-70's and it was Cloud Mist Grey too. It's my favorite color for the 40's!

The color was a little darker than the most recent picture in Deluxe40's post.

Here's another picture (not of my car but another) that is a pretty good representation of the color of mine.

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07-12-2012 @ 8:40 AM

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To my eye, both are too green. I remember the color as more grey. It is very difficult to get a good representation of the colors that were painted on the cars originally.

When I had my car repainted, we tinted the paint from PPG with more yellow to get the greenish tint that was on the underside of the floorboards and overspray on the inside of the doors.. After 7 years, you cannot see any trace of that greenish tint.

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