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you need a clean undisturbed area/component from the vehicle if you have it that hasn't been effected by degradation ....



Which is exactly what we did...

We used the floorpan as a reference...

The Standox formulation nailed-it...

The end-result nailed-it...


FC-7 is one of the worst to try and match...

I've looked at a ton of 'original paint' FC-7 survivors over the years...

There's too many uncertainties about this color...

Many OE 'purple' Dodges I've looked at seem darker than a lot of the OE 'purple' Plymouths...

After all these years, a match to the car is probably as good as it gets...

If you can't use an unblemished area of the car as a reference, yer flyin' blind...





Agreed,...and that's only the starting point, then there's the primer base/shade value, coverage/overlap at painting time/spray outs to still achieve and maintain the match desired, plus a hundred other variables all effect the actual out come....just that today's resto crowd thinks the "original" factory colors and OEM paint suppliers are somehow revered to have been infallible, every car in the same color was EXACT year after year, plant after plant, as if "robots" were mixing and spraying the paint....human error/intervention never played a part