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Old 03-19-2012, 04:58 PM
Steve Cassani Steve Cassani is offline
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Thanks, Rick. I suspect the color in the 1970 photograph evidences its age and a scanning to give the digital image. The color I've derived is darker. The curve along the fender line would not reflect a bronze hue as depicted in the photo.

Matching colors across decades is hard. Changes in paint chemistry make finding a match more a matter of personal satisfaction than it is an exercise to be resolved through testing samples. And a sample of 42 years old paint would mislead from the color that left the factory. If someone has a better solution to post I'd like to see what they've found.
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