Plum Crazy paint? best?
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Wondering about best all around match etc for Plum Crazy paint? brand etc...?? Car in currety in light bare primer and want to start right..
68 Charger 383/ AT Green/Green VT
70 Roadrunner 383/4sp Purple/Black VT
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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my friend who wons a body shop and restores Mopars-believes PPG to be the best match. I have seen many cars that were painted by him using PPG FC-7 plum crazy/in violet, that matched the original color great/including my own 70 Challenger.
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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FC7 was among the colors I had been strongly considering for my project. From my research, PPG as mentioned above had the look I was going for and and seemed to be the best match. KEEP IN MIND, if the person mixing it doesn't do things just right then you're not going to get what you want anyway.
Joe
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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PPG is the best, and as already mentioned, the color primer, how it is applied, etc. can all create various shades of the color. If I was trying to be dead on for the color I would use ruddy red primer like the factory and shoot single stage. However that would really be difficult with the mettallic so with using bc/cc I would apply 4 coats of base and three clear. 
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69 GTX hard top
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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We used PPG Deltron Base Coat (DBC) on the '71 'Cuda in the link. DBC will give a much better color match than you will get with PPG Global Base Coat. Steve www.clarkclassic.com
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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The Dupont shades of Plum Crazy seem to run a little light,the PPG is more accurate.
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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Factory primer was grey with FC7. I remember because there was a problem with the FC7 peeling when new and there was greay underneath the carnage.
Sheldon
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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Yep PPG on mine too... Cloudy Day...  Sunny Day... 
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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Factory primer was grey with FC7. I remember because there was a problem with the FC7 peeling when new and there was greay underneath the carnage.
Sheldon
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Looks like grey and Ruddy red primer.
The red oxide was the factory primer-surfacer applied directly over treated bare metal. This primer was machine wet sanded. Following that, directly under the topcoat color, was a light gray primer-sealer.
Your earlier comment about using "ruddy red" primer to affect the final color is inaccurate.
Rick 
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
[Re: MOPARMIKE69]
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I bought a 70 Charger R/T FC7 car from the original owner,and he said when the car was about a year and a half old,the paint started peeling off in sheets,he said he had to use the windshield wipers to clear the glass of the peeling paint while he was driving. Chrysler repainted the whole car the color of his choice,except Plum Crazy. Original Plum Crazy cars seem to have red oxide primer first,then grey primer,then Plum Crazy.
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Re: Plum Crazy paint? best?
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