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Originally Posted by Scott Hatcher
Lance was the one that thought the color was monza red. So I'm open to other suggestions!
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Automotive paint supply houses use something called a "color eye" to match paint for smaller automotive bodyshops. Perhaps call around to see which ones in your area have this $3,500 tool in their possession and make arrangements to go down and have your car "shot" (uses a laser to bounce a beam off the car, then analyses it, and comes up with the top three paint mixes). Using this type of apparatus works well for cars that have been repainted, or painted not on an assembly line, as it takes in to account the mistakes that can be made when mixing automotive paint (tints measured to a 10th's of an ounce). For an overall paint job, this is not ever an issue, so variations can occur. For touch up, or panel blending, this is a necessity, as 1/10th of an ounce of "tint" (Monza Red has 11 tints that must be mixed to make the color, that is 11 potential under or over pours by the painter who is mixing the product to be sprayed), and the overall color changes.....
Thus ends todays lesson on touch up paint and paint mixing in general
Bill S.