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I have used this paint site with good results.     They list your color for a 1966 model.  You can get it single stage, or whatever format you like.   I hope the link works.

 

WWW.AUTOCOLORLIBRARY.COM

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Michael

 

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18 hours ago, esty said:

what?

 

yeah, like, are we trading quarts around, here?

 

Each manufacturer has a 'formula' they use- I'm familiar with the PPG 'Prophet' and how it's not very accurate.

 

Add metallics, and -phew- that's where a real painter who mixes their own is worth paying.

(I took a crumpled fender of the right color and a straight fender of the wrong color to a local

shop, and they gave me back a straight fender in the exactly right color- after I gave them more than 3

pictures of a man who was never US President.  It was well worth it.)

 

TCPGlobal uses the Autocolorlibrary and mixes to it- I have had decent luck with them, too.

But it's not going to 'match,' it's just going to be close.

As in, you can probably do a blend with it, but not a simple panel shoot.

 

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I don’t see Arktisblau-metallic (045) in the color and upholstery brochures until February 1974, first photo.

 

I believe it “replaced” Baikal-metallic (042), which still appeared in the September 1973 brochure, second photo.

 

Good luck,

 

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

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1976 2002 Polaris, 2742541 (original owner)

1973 2002tii Inka, 2762757 (not-the-original owner)

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Thanks for the response.  Yes the car is a '75.

Painting exterior but not inside doors, trunk, hood, etc.

Just trying to get close and thought maybe someone had found something current they liked.  Yes it's metallic blue and maybe some Ford or Toyota  or ? metallic blue will be the one, with a little help. Thanks again, Joe

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The local shop I've been using for many years has done an outstanding job of matching paint on my cars, especially my Sahara '73, which has been painted--in sections--a half dozen times in the past 30 years, due primarily to minor accident damage and an unfortunate incident with something that washed off a roof and dull-spotted my roof and trunk lid.  All the repaints match...and they did the same thing with my Brilliantrot E30, matching 30 year old original paint with the deck lid spoiler (hail damaged) and the chin spoiler (disappeared under mysterious circumstances).  

 

They use spectrographic matching to match new paint with existing, so your local shop should be able to do the same, using some of your original interior paint as the base.

 

mike

'69 Nevada sunroof-Wolfgang-bought new
'73 Sahara sunroof-Ludwig-since '78
'91 Brillantrot 318is sunroof-Georg Friederich 
Fiat Topolini (Benito & Luigi), Renault 4CVs (Anatole, Lucky Pierre, Brigette) & Kermit, the Bugeye Sprite

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